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Jonathan Yong Kim (born 5 February 1984) is an American U.S. Navy lieutenant commander, former SEAL, flight surgeon, Naval aviator, physician, and NASA astronaut.. Born in Los Angeles, Kim enlisted in the U.S. Navy in the early 2000s before earning a Silver Star, Bronze Star with V device, and his commission.
David M. Brown – captain, flight surgeon and astronaut killed in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster ; Scott Carpenter – naval aviator, astronaut, Mercury 7; Christopher Cassidy – Navy SEAL, astronaut STS-127, Soyuz TMA-08M (Expedition 35/36), Soyuz MS-16 (Expedition 62/63)
Chiaki Mukai was born in Tatebayashi, Gunma Prefecture.She graduated from Keio Girls Senior High School in Tokyo in 1971. She received her doctorate in medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, 1977; a doctorate in physiology, Keio University School of Medicine, 1988; board certified as a cardiovascular surgeon, Japan Surgical Society, 1989.
Served in the Korean War, Navy test pilot, astronaut participating in Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8, and commanding the ill-fated Apollo 13, which he brought back safely [19] [20] [21] Thomas P. Stafford: 1952 Pilot, Gemini 6A, commanded Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project [22] [23] [24] Theodore Freeman: 1953
First Asian American marine corps officer, Navy Cross recipient [22] [23] Brian L. Losey – rear admiral (lower half), U.S. Navy. Navy SEAL, and Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, Africa (SOCAFRICA); Japanese American and first Asian American SEAL flag officer [24] Viet Luong – major general, U.S. Army. First Vietnam-born general ...
First Saudi astronaut to ISS. Axiom Mission 2 (May 21, 2023) Rayyanah Barnawi September, 1988 First Saudi astronaut to ISS. First female Saudi astronaut in space. 56, 57 Gui Haichao November, 1986 China: First civilian taikonaut in space. Shenzhou 16 (May 30, 2023) Zhu Yangzhu September, 1986 58 Namira Salim Pakistan: First Pakistani in space.
2002: Kenneth P. Moritsugu becomes the first Asian-American Surgeon General. 2010: Daniel Inouye becomes the first Asian-American President pro tempore of the United States Senate, making him the highest-ranking Asian-American politician in American history. 2015: Yumi Hogan becomes the first Asian-American First Lady of a U.S. State. [59]
The surgeon general of the Navy (SGN) is the most senior commissioned officer of the Medical Corps of the United States Navy and is the principal advisor to the United States Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations and director of the Defense Health Agency on all health and medical matters pertaining to the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps.