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This is a list of persons who served aboard Space Shuttle crews, arranged in chronological order by Space Shuttle missions. Abbreviations: PC = Payload Commander; MSE = USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer; Mir = Launched to be part of the crew of the Mir Space Station; ISS = Launched to be part of the crew of the International Space Station.
This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name. More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts.
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. [ 1 ]
Pages in category "Space Shuttle program astronauts" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 354 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Ramon was the first Israeli astronaut to fly in space and also a Payload Specialist on the final mission of Space Shuttle Columbia . July 28 – TsPK–12 / RKKE-13 Cosmonaut Group (Russia) TsPK: Dmitri Kondratyev , Yury Lonchakov , Sergei Moshchenko , Oleg Moshkin , Roman Romanenko , Aleksandr Skvortsov , Maksim Surayev , Konstantin Valkov ...
The Space Shuttle Columbia was lost as it returned from a two-week mission when previously detected damage to the shuttle's thermal protection system (TPS) resulted in the spacecraft breaking apart during reentry at an altitude of just under 65 km and a speed of about Mach 19. Investigation revealed that a piece of foam insulation had fallen ...
List of astronauts educated at the United States Naval Academy; Canadian Astronaut Corps; List of Chinese astronauts; List of Indian astronauts; List of Japanese astronauts. JAXA Astronaut Corps; List of cosmonauts. Roscosmos Cosmonaut Corps; List of European astronauts. European Astronaut Corps. 2022 European Space Agency Astronaut Group; List ...
U.S. Space Shuttle missions were capable of carrying more humans and cargo than the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, resulting in more U.S. short-term human visits until the Space Shuttle program was discontinued in 2011. Between 2011 and 2020, Soyuz was the sole means of human transport to the ISS, delivering mostly long-term crew.