Astronauts
Wally Schirra
Walter Marty Schirra Jr. was an American naval aviator and NASA astronaut. In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, which was the United States’ first effort…
Walter Cunningham
Ronnie Walter Cunningham was an American astronaut. In 1968, he was a Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 7 mission. He was NASA’s third civilian astronaut (after Neil Armstrong and Elliot See), and has …
Walter Villadei
Italian Air Force mission commander on the Virgin Galactic 01 flight. Backup pilot for the Axiom Space Mission 2, Pilon for the Axiom Space Mission 3, qualified on Soyuz, ISS systems, and Orlan for EV…
Wang Yaping
Colonel Wang Yaping is a Chinese military pilot and astronaut. Wang was the second female astronaut to be named by the CNSA, and the second Chinese woman in space.
She was a candidate for t…
Warren Hoburg
Warren Woodrow “Woody” Hoburg is an American engineer and NASA astronaut of the class of 2017….
Wendy B. Lawrence
Wendy Barrien Lawrence is a retired United States Navy Captain, former helicopter pilot, an engineer, and a former NASA astronaut. She was the first female graduate of the United States Naval Academy …
William A. Pailes
William Arthur Pailes (Colonel, USAF) (born June 26, 1952) was a USAF astronaut in the Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program during the mid-1980s. He served as a Payload Specialist on STS-51-J Atlantis …
William Anders
William Alison “Bill” Anders was a United States Air Force Major general, electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman. He was one of the first three persons to leave low Ear…
William B. Lenoir
William Benjamin “Bill” Lenoir, Ph.D. was an American electrical engineer and a NASA astronaut….
William C. McCool
William Cameron “Willie” McCool was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut, who was the pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107. He and th…
William E. Thornton
William Edgar Thornton is a former NASA astronaut….
William F. Readdy
William Francis Readdy is a former Associate Administrator of the Office of Space Flight, at NASA Headquarters.
He graduated from McLean High School, McLean, Virginia, in 1970 and received …
William Frederick Fisher
William Frederick Fisher is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. Fisher went into space in 1985 on board the Space Shuttle. He retired from NASA in 1992 and returned to the full-time pra…
