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Barry E. Wilmore

Barry E. Wilmore

Status: Active 12/29/1962 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/16/2009 Last Flight: 9/25/2014 Barry Eugene “Butch” Wilmore is a NASA astronaut and United States Navy test pilot. He has had two spaceflights, the first of which was an 11-day Space Shuttle mission in November 2009, to the International Space Station. Wilmore was designated as […]

Bernard Harris

Bernard Harris

Status: Retired 6/26/1956 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 4/26/1993 Last Flight: 2/3/1995 Bernard Anthony Harris Jr. is a former NASA astronaut. On February 9, 1995, Harris became the first African American to perform an extra-vehicular activity (spacewalk), during the second of his two Space Shuttle flights.

Bertalan Farkas

Bertalan Farkas

Status: Retired 8/2/1949 – Nationality: Hungarian Type: Government First Flight: 5/26/1980 Last Flight: 5/26/1980 Bertalan Farkas (born August 2, 1949) is the first Hungarian cosmonaut and the first Esperantist in space. He is currently the president of Airlines Service and Trade. With Charles Simonyi’s space travel, Farkas is no longer the only Hungarian who has […]

Beth Moses

Beth Moses

Status: Active 5/30/1980 – Nationality: American Type: Private First Flight: 2/22/2019 Last Flight: 5/25/2023 Beth Moses is Chief Astronaut Instructor and Interiors Program Manager for Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo program, and is a commercial astronaut. She was the first woman to make a spaceflight on a commercially launched vehicle, the VSS Unity VF-01 flight of 22 […]

Bill Nelson

Bill Nelson

Status: Retired 9/29/1942 – Nationality: American Type: Non-Astronaut Passenger First Flight: 1/12/1986 Last Flight: 1/12/1986 Clarence William Nelson II (born September 29, 1942) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Florida, first elected to that seat in 2000. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the Florida […]

Bjarni Tryggvason

Bjarni Tryggvason

Status: Deceased 9/21/1945 – 4/6/2022 Nationality: Canadian Type: Government First Flight: 8/7/1997 Last Flight: 8/7/1997 Bjarni Valdimar Tryggvason (born September 21, 1945) is an Icelandic-born Canadian engineer and a former NRC/CSA astronaut. He served as a Payload Specialist on Space Shuttle mission STS-85 in 1997, a 12-day mission to study changes in the Earth’s atmosphere.

Bonnie J. Dunbar

Bonnie J. Dunbar

Status: Retired 3/3/1949 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 10/30/1985 Last Flight: 1/23/1998 Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar is a former NASA astronaut. She retired from NASA in September 2005 then served as president and CEO of The Museum of Flight until April 2010. From January 2013 – December 2015, Dr. Dunbar lead the University of […]

Boris Morukov

Boris Morukov

Status: Deceased 10/1/1950 – 1/1/2015 Nationality: Russian Type: Government First Flight: 9/8/2000 Last Flight: 9/8/2000 Boris Vladimirovich Morukov (Russian: Бори́с Влади́мирович Моруков; 1 October 1950 – 1 January 2015) was a Russian physician at the State Research Center RF-Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP). He trained with the Russian Federal Space Agency as a research-cosmonaut and […]

Boris Volynov

Boris Volynov

Status: Retired 12/18/1934 – Nationality: Russian Type: Government First Flight: 1/15/1969 Last Flight: 7/6/1976 Boris Valentinovich Volynov (Russian: Бори́с Валенти́нович Волы́нов; born 18 December 1934) is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 5, and Soyuz 21. He was the first Jewish cosmonaut to enter space, preceding Judith Resnik […]

Boris Yegorov

Boris Yegorov

Status: Deceased 11/26/1937 – 9/12/1994 Nationality: Russian Type: Government First Flight: 10/13/1964 Last Flight: 10/13/1964 Boris Borisovich Yegorov was a Soviet physician-cosmonaut who became the first physician to make a space flight. Yegorov was selected as a member of the multi-disciplinary team that flew on Voskhod 1.

Brent W. Jett Jr.

Brent W. Jett Jr.

Status: Retired 10/5/1958 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 1/11/1996 Last Flight: 9/9/2006 Brent Ward Jett Jr. is a retired American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace and aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut.

Brewster H. Shaw

Brewster H. Shaw

Status: Retired 5/16/1945 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/28/1983 Last Flight: 8/8/1989 Brewster Hopkinson Shaw Jr. is a former NASA astronaut, a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and former executive at Boeing. Shaw was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 6, 2006.[1] Shaw is a veteran of three […]

Brian Duffy

Brian Duffy

Status: Retired 6/20/1953 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 3/24/1992 Last Flight: 10/11/2000 Brian Duffy is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and a former NASA astronaut. He flew aboard four Space Shuttle missions.

Brian O’Leary

Brian O’Leary

Status: Deceased 1/27/1940 – 7/28/2011 Nationality: American Type: Government Brian Todd O’Leary was an American scientist, author, and former NASA astronaut. He was part of NASA Astronaut Group 6, a group of scientist-astronauts chosen with the intention of training for the Apollo Applications Program.

Bruce E. Melnick

Bruce E. Melnick

Status: Retired 12/5/1949 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 10/6/1990 Last Flight: 5/7/1992 Bruce Edward Melnick is a former American astronaut and retired United States Coast Guard officer. Following retirement from NASA and the Coast Guard, he entered the aerospace industry. He served as a Vice President with the Boeing Co.’s Integrated Defense Systems […]