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The flags indicate the astronaut's primary citizenship during his or her time as an astronaut. The symbol identifies female astronauts. The symbol indicates astronauts who have left low Earth orbit. The symbol indicates astronauts who have walked on the Moon. The symbol † indicates astronauts who have died in incidents related to a space program.
San Francisco: John Young (1930–2018), first NASA astronaut to fly five and six times, first man to orbit the Moon on two missions — Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9; Pomona: Victor J. Glover, first African American astronaut to go to the ISS on a long-duration flight — SpaceX Crew-1
John Herrington (Chickasaw, born 1958), astronaut; James Jabara (1923–1966) world's first jet ace, and Korean War triple ace with 15 kills; Shannon Lucid (born 1943), astronaut; William R. Pogue (1930–2014), astronaut; Wiley Post (1898–1935), first pilot to fly solo around the world (born in Texas but grew up in Oklahoma)
Astronauts Thomas Stafford, left, and James Lovell speak during a 2015 news conference at the Oklahoma History Center on the 50th anniversary of the Gemini 6/Gemini 7 rendezvous.
Thomas Patten Stafford (September 17, 1930 – March 18, 2024) was an American Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and one of 24 astronauts who flew to the Moon. He also served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1969 to 1971.
He orbited the Earth 22 times and logged more time in space than all five previous Mercury astronauts combined: 34 hours, 19 minutes, and 49 seconds. Cooper achieved an altitude of 165.9 miles (267 km) at apogee. He was the first American astronaut to sleep, not only in orbit, [2] [36] but on the launch pad during a countdown. [37]
Owen Kay Garriott (November 22, 1930 – April 15, 2019) was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut, who spent 60 days aboard the Skylab space station in 1973 during the Skylab 3 mission, and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 on a Space Shuttle mission in 1983.
John Bennett Herrington (Chickasaw Nation, [3] born September 14, 1958) is a retired United States Naval Aviator, engineer and former NASA astronaut. In 2002, Herrington became the first enrolled citizen of a Native American tribe to fly in space.