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Group 3 was the last group of CNES astronauts chosen. In 1999, all remaining active CNES astronauts were transferred to the ESA Astronaut Corps. May 11 – TsPK–11 Cosmonaut Group (Soviet Union) ru:11-й набор космонавтов ЦПК ВВС (1990) Talgat Musabayev, Vladimir Severin, Salizhan Sharipov, Sergei Vozovikov, Sergei Zalyotin
As of October 2024, the corps has 47 "active" astronauts consisting of 20 women and 27 men [8] The highest number of active astronauts at one time was in 2000 when there were 149. [9] All of the current astronaut corps are from the classes of 1996 (Group 16) or later.
NASA Astronaut Group 2 (nicknamed the "Next Nine" and the "New Nine") was the second group of astronauts selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Their selection was announced on September 17, 1962.
The astronauts had personal preference kits (PPKs), small bags containing personal items of significance they wanted to take with them on the mission. [79] Five 0.5-pound (0.23 kg) PPKs were carried on Apollo 11: three (one for each astronaut) were stowed on Columbia before launch, and two on Eagle. [80]
The 9/11 attacks left 2,977 dead across New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania, according to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. That total includes the 2,753 who died in New York, 184 people at ...
The Gemini astronauts were sixteen pilots who flew in Project Gemini, NASA's second human spaceflight program, between projects Mercury and Apollo. Carrying two astronauts at a time, a senior command pilot and a junior pilot, the Gemini spacecraft was used for ten crewed missions. Four of the sixteen astronauts flew twice. [1] [2]
As of June 2024, 6 of the 24 remain alive. [1] No woman has been to the Moon, but a number of non-human animals have circled or orbited it, including two tortoises, several turtles, and five mice. Apollo missions 8 and 10–17 were the nine crewed missions to the Moon.
Charles Edward Jones was born November 8, 1952, in Clinton, Indiana.He graduated from Wichita East High School in 1970, earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Astronautical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1974, and received a Master of Science degree in Astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.