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James Donald Halsell Jr. (born September 29, 1956) is a retired United States Air Force officer, a former NASA astronaut.The veteran of five Space Shuttle missions pled guilty in 2021 to two counts of manslaughter and two counts of assault as a result of a motor vehicle accident in 2016.
Lisa Marie Nowak (née Caputo; born May 10, 1963) is an American aeronautical engineer, former NASA astronaut, and retired United States Navy officer. Nowak served as naval flight officer and test pilot in the Navy, and was selected by NASA for NASA Astronaut Group 16 in 1996, qualifying as a mission specialist in robotics.
Ellison Shoji Onizuka (Japanese: エリソン・ショージ・オニヅカ, 鬼塚 承次, Hepburn: Onizuka Shōji, June 24, 1946 – January 28, 1986) was an American astronaut, engineer, and U.S. Air Force flight test engineer from Kealakekua, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C.
In April 2015, 24-year-oldJamycheal Mitchell was arrested on charges of stealing $5 worth of food from a 7-Eleven.
This is the moment a Nasa astronaut trapped in space ventures outside for the first time in months. Suni Williams is one the two astronauts stuck on the International Space Station. Footage taken ...
William Anthony "Bill" Oefelein (/ ˈ oʊ f ɛ l aɪ n /; born March 29, 1965) is an American freelance adventure writer and photographer and former NASA astronaut who, on his only spaceflight, piloted the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission.
Leland Devon Melvin (born February 15, 1964) is an American engineer and a retired NASA astronaut.He served on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis as a mission specialist on STS-122, and as mission specialist 1 on STS-129.
Ronald Erwin McNair (October 21, 1950 – January 28, 1986) was an American NASA astronaut and physicist.He died at the age of 35 during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, in which he was serving as one of three mission specialists in a crew of seven.