Astronauts

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.

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.

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 […]

Status: Deceased 6/8/1937 – 12/21/2017 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 2/3/1984 Last Flight: 4/24/1990 Bruce McCandless II was a U.S. naval officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut. In 1984, during the first of his two Space Shuttle missions, he made the first untethered free flight by using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.

Status: Retired 9/6/1946 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/27/1985 Last Flight: 6/5/1991 Bryan Daniel O’Connor is a retired United States Marine Corps Colonel and former NASA astronaut.

Status: Retired 1/20/1930 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/11/1966 Last Flight: 7/16/1969 Buzz Aldrin; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; is an American engineer, former astronaut, and fighter pilot. As Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 11 mission, he and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the first two humans to land on the Moon.

Status: Retired 2/19/1948 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/28/1983 Last Flight: 3/24/1992 Byron Kurt Lichtenberg, Sc. D. (born February 19, 1948) is an American engineer and fighter pilot who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a Payload Specialist. In 1983, he and Ulf Merbold became the first Payload Specialists to fly […]

Status: Deceased 10/11/1936 – 8/21/2013 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 3/22/1982 Last Flight: 7/29/1985 Charles Gordon Fullerton was a United States Air Force colonel, a USAF and NASA astronaut, and a research pilot at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California.[1] His assignments included a variety of flight research and support activities piloting NASA’s […]

Status: Active – Nationality: Chinese Type: Government First Flight: 6/5/2022 Last Flight: 6/5/2022 Chinese astronaut from the CNSA Group-2 selection (2010).

Status: Occasional Spaceflight – Nationality: American Type: Private First Flight: 12/11/2021 Last Flight: 12/11/2021 Cameron is a content creator who studied Computer Science and Game Design at DigiPen Institute for Technology in Washington.

Status: Retired 9/6/1955 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 9/12/1993 Last Flight: 12/5/2001 Carl Erwin Walz is a former NASA astronaut currently working for Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Advanced Programs Group as Vice President for Human Space Flight Operations. Walz was formerly assigned to the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. […]

Status: Retired 11/16/1950 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/15/1990 Last Flight: 9/9/1994 Carl Joseph Meade is a former NASA astronaut.

Status: Retired 10/8/1959 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 5/15/1997 Last Flight: 12/1/2000 Carlos Ismael Noriega is a Peruvian and U.S. citizen, NASA employee, a former NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel.

Status: Retired 12/14/1960 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 10/20/1995 Last Flight: 12/15/2010 Catherine Grace “Cady” Coleman is an American chemist, a former United States Air Force officer, and a former NASA astronaut. She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, and departed the International Space Station on May 23, 2011, as a […]

Status: Retired 11/5/1961 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 7/12/2001 Last Flight: 11/16/2009 Charles Owen “Scorch” Hobaugh is a former NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer. He has had three spaceflights, all of which were Space Shuttle missions to the International Space Station, lasting between 10 and 13 days.