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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.
Thus, in 1978, a new group of 35 astronauts was selected after 9 years without new astronauts, including the first American female astronauts, with one of them, Judith Resnik, also being the first Jewish American astronaut, as well as the first African-American astronauts to fly, Guion Bluford and Frederick D. Gregory (the first black astronaut ...
1 By name. 2 By nationality. 3 By demographic group. 4 By achievement. 5 Other. 6 Space flights. 7 See also. Toggle the table of contents. ... American astronauts ...
Name & birth date Notes Ref. Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. October 2, 1935 †December 8, 1967 First African-American astronaut; selected for astronaut training in 1967 for the MOL program; died in an aircraft accident [9] Livingston L. Holder Jr. September 29, 1956 USAF astronaut in the Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program [10] Michael E. Belt ...
A Viktor Mikhaylovich Afanasyev — Soyuz TM-11, Soyuz TM-18, Soyuz TM-29, Soyuz TM-33 / 32 Vladimir Aksyonov (1935–2024) — Soyuz 22, Soyuz T-2 Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov — Soyuz T-9, Soyuz TM-3 Ivan Anikeyev (1933–1992) — Expelled from Vostok program; no flights. Oleg Artemyev * — Soyuz TMA-12M, Soyuz MS-08, Soyuz MS-21 Anatoly Artsebarsky * — Soyuz TM-12 Yuri Artyukhin ...
Before astronaut school, there was college. astronaut Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" when he became the first person to walk on the surface of the moon.
This is a complete list of astronauts in the United States Space Force.There have currently been two NASA astronauts who have been members of the U.S. Space Force. The first U.S. Space Force astronaut, Colonel Mike Hopkins, commemorated the service's first birthday by having his transfer ceremony on 19 December 2020 on the International Space Station.
In honor of World Space Week, world famous astronaut Buzz Aldrin shared his dream for the future of space travel with AOL.com. First of all, I want to salute the efforts of the World Space Week ...