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Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist.Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982.
Alyssa Carson (born March 10, 2001) is an American social media influencer and space enthusiast known for her ambition from a young age to be the first person on Mars.She has attended numerous space camps and has visited every NASA visitor center.
Hayley Arceneaux (born December 4, 1991) is an American physician assistant and commercial astronaut.She joined billionaire Jared Isaacman on SpaceX's first private spaceflight Inspiration4, which launched on September 16, 2021, 00:02:56 UTC, and successfully water-landed local-time on Saturday, September 18. [3]
This group is all USAF MOL astronauts who transferred to NASA after the cancellation of the MOL program in 1969. All flew on early Space Shuttle flights. Truly, in 1989, would become the first astronaut to be NASA Administrator, holding the post until 1992. As of July 2024, the final surviving member of this group is Robert Crippen.
Susan Kilrain (born Susan Leigh Still, October 24, 1961) is an American aerospace engineer, United States Navy officer and NASA astronaut. She is the youngest person to pilot a Space Shuttle. She has flown more than 3,000 hours and among her merits she was awarded with the Defense Superior Service Medal. [1] [2]
He is the first astronaut from Sicily Samantha Cristoforetti, 541st person in space, who has performed the longest single spaceflight by a woman, as of 2015 Andreas Mogensen, joint 544th person and the first Dane in space Aidyn Aimbetov, joint 544th person and the first solely Kazakh cosmonaut Hazza Al Mansouri, joint 564th person and the first ...
As Menon read "Kisses from Space," James and Grace watched 435 miles below from Florida with their father Anil Menon, a NASA astronaut. Hailing from Houston, Texas, the Menon family made the trip ...
Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.