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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.
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.
This is a list of astronauts, who are in a restricted sense, Asians. If "Asian" is restricted to refer to people from the continent of Asia , exclusive of Asian Russia and Turkey, who are not of predominantly European, African, or American ancestry, then the list is as follows:
Name Birth date Ancestry Birth Comment Missions (Launch date) 1 Ellison Onizuka June 24, 1946 Japan United States: Selected in 1978 to NASA Astronaut Group 8. First Asian American and first Japanese American in space. Died on the Challenger. STS-51-C (January 24, 1985) STS-51-L (January 28, 1986) 2 Taylor Gun-Jin Wang June 16, 1940
Dick Couch – Author of several books on SEALs including The Warrior Elite: Forging of SEAL Class 228, The Finishing School, and Down Range: Navy SEALs in the War on Terrorism. Graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Cade Courtley – Actor, contestant on the reality series Combat Missions, and host of Spike's Surviving Disaster.
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)
Chris Kyle, U.S. Navy SEAL "Thunderbolt" – Bayezid I, Ottoman sultan; Georgios Kondylis, Greek Army general and politician "Tiger of Malaya" – Yamashita Tomoyuki, World War II Japanese general [38] "Tim" Pile – Frederick Pile, World War II British general "Tin Legs" – Sir Douglas Bader – Second World War RAF ace "Tiny" –
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.