Astronaut
21 famous people found
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Michael Collins
American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface
1930 - 2021 -
Youri GAGARINE
Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut
1934 - 1968 -
Neil ARMSTRONG
American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon
1930 - 2012 -
Thomas PESQUET
French aerospace engineer, pilot, and European Space Agency astronaut
1978 -
John GLENN
United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician
1921 - 2016 -
Sophie ADENOT
French engineer, helicopter pilot, and astronaut
1982 -
Dirk FRIMOUT
Belgian astrophysicist
1941 -
Buzz ALDRIN
American astronaut who was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 11
1930 -
Claudie HAIGNERE
French doctor, politician, and former spationaut
1957 -
Sally RIDE
American astronaut and physicist
1951 - 2012 -
Michel TOGNINI
French test pilot, engineer, Brigadier General in the French Air Force, and a former CNES and ESA astronaut
1949 -
Robert CRIPPEN
American retired naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and retired astronaut
1937 -
Story MUSGRAVE
American physician and retired NASA astronaut
1935 -
Peggy Whitson
American biochemistry researcher, retired NASA astronaut, former NASA Chief Astronaut, and an active Axiom Space astronaut
1960 -
Mark Kelly
American politician, former astronaut and U.S. Navy captain
1964 -
Claude NICOLLIER
Astronaut from Switzerland
1944 -
Gene CERNAN
American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot
1934 - 2017 -
Brewster H. SHAW
Former NASA astronaut, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and former executive at Boeing
1945 -
Sharon MCAULIFFE
American teacher, one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
1948 - 1986 -
Gregory J. HARBAUGH
American NASA Astronaut
1956