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Valery Korzun

Valery Korzun

  • Date of Birth: 03/05/1953
  • Nationality: Russia
  • First Flight: 08/17/1996
  • Last Flight: 06/05/2002

Valery Grigoryevich Korzun (Russian: Валерий Григорьевич Корзун, born 5 March 1953) is a Russian cosmonaut. He has been in spa...

Valery Rozhdestvensky

Valery Rozhdestvensky

  • Date of Birth: 02/13/1939
  • Date of Death: 08/31/2011
  • Nationality: Russia
  • First Flight: 10/14/1976
  • Last Flight: 10/14/1976

Valery Ilyich Rozhdestvensky (Russian: Валерий Ильич Рождественский, 13 February 1939 – 31 August 2011) was a Soviet cosmo...

Valery Ryumin

Valery Ryumin

  • Date of Birth: 08/16/1939
  • Nationality: Russia
  • First Flight: 10/09/1977
  • Last Flight: 06/02/1998

Valery Victorovich Ryumin (born August 16, 1939 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur) is a former Soviet cosmonaut.
In 1973, he joined the RSC Energia cosmon...

Vance D. Brand

Vance D. Brand

  • Date of Birth: 05/09/1931
  • Nationality: United States of America
  • First Flight: 07/15/1975
  • Last Flight: 12/02/1990

Vance DeVoe Brand is an American former naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He served as Command Module ...

Vanessa O’Brien

Vanessa O’Brien

  • Date of Birth: 12/02/1964
  • Nationality: United States of America, United Kingdom
  • First Flight: 08/04/2022
  • Last Flight: 08/04/2022

Vanessa Audi Rhys O'Brien is a British and American mountaineer, explorer, aquanaut, author and former business executive. On June 12, 2020, O'Brien b...

Vasily Lazarev

Vasily Lazarev

  • Date of Birth: 02/23/1928
  • Date of Death: 12/31/1990
  • Nationality: Russia
  • First Flight: 09/27/1973
  • Last Flight: 04/05/1975

Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev (Russian: Васи́лий Григо́рьевич Ла́зарев; February 23, 1928 – December 31, 1990) was a Sovie...

Vasily Tsibliyev

Vasily Tsibliyev

  • Date of Birth: 02/20/1954
  • Nationality: Russia
  • First Flight: 07/01/1993
  • Last Flight: 02/10/1997

Vasily Vasiliyevich Tsibliyev (Russian: Василий Василиевич Циблиев); born on February 20, 1954) is a Russian cosmonaut. <b...

Victor Correa Hespanha

Victor Correa Hespanha

  • Nationality: Brazil
  • First Flight: 06/04/2022
  • Last Flight: 06/04/2022

Victor is a civil production engineer from Minas Gerais (Brazil).

Victor J. Glover

Victor J. Glover

  • Date of Birth: 04/30/1976
  • Nationality: United States of America
  • First Flight: 11/16/2020
  • Last Flight: 11/16/2020

Victor Jerome Glover is a NASA astronaut of the class of 2013.

Glover is a Commander in the U.S. Navy who hails from Pomona, Californ...

Victor Vescovo

Victor Vescovo

  • Nationality: United States of America
  • First Flight: 06/04/2022
  • Last Flight: 06/04/2022

Victor is a co-founder of private equity investment firm Insight Equity. He has completed the “Explorer’s Grand Slam,” which includes summiting ...

Viktor Afanasyev

Viktor Afanasyev

  • Date of Birth: 12/31/1948
  • Nationality: Russia
  • First Flight: 12/02/1990
  • Last Flight: 10/21/2001

Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev Russian: Виктор Михайлович Афанасьев; born 31 December 1948) is a colonel in the Russian Air Fo...

Viktor Gorbatko

Viktor Gorbatko

  • Date of Birth: 12/03/1934
  • Date of Death: 05/17/2017
  • Nationality: Russia
  • First Flight: 10/12/1969
  • Last Flight: 07/23/1980

Viktor Vasilyevich Gorbatko (Russian: Ви́ктор Васи́льевич Горба́тко; December 3, 1934 – May 17, 2017) was a Soviet cosmon...

Viktor Patsayev

Viktor Patsayev

  • Date of Birth: 06/19/1933
  • Date of Death: 06/30/1971
  • Nationality: Russia
  • First Flight: 06/06/1971
  • Last Flight: 06/06/1971

Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev (Russian: Ви́ктор Ива́нович Паца́ев; 19 June 1933 – 30 June 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew o...

Viktor Savinykh

Viktor Savinykh

  • Date of Birth: 03/07/1940
  • Nationality: Russia
  • First Flight: 03/12/1981
  • Last Flight: 06/07/1988

Viktor Petrovich Savinykh was born in Berezkiny, Kirov Oblast, Russian SFSR on March 7, 1940. Married with one child. Selected as a cosmonaut on Decem...

Vitalii Ostrovsky

Vitalii Ostrovsky

  • Nationality: Ukraine
  • First Flight: 10/08/2025
  • Last Flight: 10/08/2025

Businessman, hotel and real estate investor, systems analyst, web developer, and globetrotter.