GordonD Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 May 1st Scott Carpenter (1925) USA Selected 1959 (NASA Group 1) Mercury-Atlas 7/Aurora 7, 24 May 1962 (4h 56m) Retired August 1967 Died 10 October 2013Paul Ronney (1957) USA Selected 1996 Backup for STS-83 and STS-94 Retired August 1997; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 1, 2018 Author Share Posted May 1, 2018 I'm going away for the holiday weekend and I'll be busy tomorrow so over the course of this morning I'm going to post entries for each day up to Monday 7th May. Business as normal from next Tuesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 1, 2018 Author Share Posted May 1, 2018 May 2nd Dominic Gorie (1957) USA Selected 1994 (NASA Group 15) STS-91, 2 – 12 June 1998 (9d 19h 54m) – 9th and last Mir docking; carried Thomas back to Earth STS-99, 11 – 22 February 2000 (11d 5h 38m) – Shuttle Radar Topography Mission STS-108, 5 – 17 December 2001 (11d 19h 35m) – Delivered supplies to the ISS; crew exchange (Expedition 4 up; Expedition 3 down) STS-123, 11 – 27 March 2008 (15d 18h 11m) – Delivered Japanese Kibo Module to the ISS; partial crew exchange (Reisman up; Eyharts down) Total flight time 48d 15h 18m Retired June 2010 Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger (1975) USA Selected 2004 (NASA Group 19) STS-131, 5 – 20 April 2010 (15d 2h 47m) – Delivered equipment and supplies to the ISS Retired April 2013 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 1, 2018 Author Share Posted May 1, 2018 May 3rd Albert Sacco (1949) USA Selected 1990 STS-73, 20 October – 5 November 1995 (15d 21h 52m) – US Microgravity Laboratory (USML-2) Retired November 1995 Alexander Gerst (1976) Germany Selected 2009 (ESA Group 3) Soyuz TMA-13M/ISS Expeditions 40/41, 28 May – 10 November 2014 (165d 8h 1m) Still on active flight status Lorel O'Hara (1983) USA Selected 2017 (NASA Group 22) On active status; no flights yet Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 1, 2018 Author Share Posted May 1, 2018 May 4th (Star Wars Day) Milt Thompson (1926) USA Selected 1962 (X-20 program) Trained to fly the X-20 Dyna-Soar but program cancelled; made 14 flights in the X-15 Retired May 1965 Died 6 August 1993, on the day he was due to be awarded a second NASA Distinguished Service Medal at a dinner in his honour Michael Gernhardt (1956) USA Selected 1992 (NASA Group 14) STS-69, 7 - 18 September 1995 (10d 20h 28m) - Deployed and retrieved the Wake Shield Facility for research into semiconductor film growth, and SPARTAN-201 pallet STS-83, 4 – 8 April 1997 (3d 23h 12m) – Microgravity Science Laboratory (MSL-1) STS-94, 1 – 17 July 1997 (15d 16h 44m) – Microgravity Science Laboratory (MSL-1 Reflight – see below) STS-104, 12 – 25 July 2001 (12d 18h 35m) – Delivered the Quest Joint Airlock to the ISS Total flight time 43d 6h 59m Retired August 2001 The MSL-1 mission was cut short after problems with one of the Shuttle’s fuel cells. After landing it was decided not to carry out the normal post-flight maintenance processing, so propellant and other consumables were supplied and the engines changed out and the mission was reflown with the same crew. The next unallocated flight number was assigned and even the mission patch was recycled, with just the number updated from 83 to 94 and the colour of the outer ring changed from red to blue. This is the only time that a complete crew has flown two consecutive missions: one way of looking at it is that it was a single mission with the crew enjoying shore leave part of the way through… Maurizio Cheli (1959) Italy Selected 1992 (ESA Group 2) STS-75, 22 February – 9 March 1996 (15d 17h 40m) – US Microgravity Payload 3 and the Italian Tethered Satellite System (tether snapped; satellite lost) Retired June 1996 Lance Bass (1979) USA Selected 2001 Singer with the band N’SYNC Trained as Spaceflight Participant (fare-paying tourist) for a flight to the ISS but the financial backing fell through and mission was cancelled Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 1, 2018 Author Share Posted May 1, 2018 May 5th Michael Adams (1930) USA Selected 1963 as Military Astronaut; transferred to MOL 1965 Retired July 1966 but continued to fly the X-15 Killed in crash of X-15 15 November 1967 Douglas Wheelock (1960) USA Selected 1998 (NASA Group 17) STS-120, 23 October – 7 November 2007 (15d 2h 23m) – Delivered Harmony Module and other equipment to the ISS Soyuz TMA-19/ISS Expeditions 24/25, 15 June – 26 November 2010 (163d 7h 11m) Total flight time to date 178d 9h 34m Still on active flight status Satoshi Takamatsu (1963) Japan Selected 2014 as Spaceflight Participant (fare-paying passenger) Still technically on active status; no flights yet Fei Junlong (1966) China Selected 1998 (China Group 1) Shenzhou VI, 12 – 16 October 2005 (4d 19h 32m) – Second Chinese mission Retired 2012 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 1, 2018 Author Share Posted May 1, 2018 May 6th Zhanna Yorkina (1939) USSR Selected 1962 Named backup for Voskhod 5 but mission cancelled Retired 1969 Died 25 May 2015 David Leestma (1949) USA Selected 1980 (NASA Group 9) STS-41G, 5 – 13 October 1984 (8d 5h 23m) – Carried out an EVA demonstrating the refuelling of satellites in orbit STS-28, 8 – 13 August 1989 (5d 1h 0m) – Classified DoD mission; deployed two satellites; first flight of the human skull for medical research STS-45, 24 March – 2 April 1992 (8d 22h 9m) – ATLAS-1 package for Earth-resource studies Total flight time 22d 4h 32m Retired December 1992 Chiaki Naito-Mukai (1952) Japan Selected 1985 (Japan Group 1) STS-65, 8 – 23 July 1994 (14d 17h 55m) – International Microgravity Laboratory 2 STS-95, 29 October – 7 November 1998 (8d 21h 44m) – SPACEHAB mission; deployed and retrieved SPARTAN pallet; crew included John Glenn Total flight time 23d 15h 39m Retired March 2015 Sergei Tresvyatsky (1954) USSR Selected 1985 Trained to fly Buran Shuttle; programme cancelled Retired 1996 Donald Thomas (1955) USA Selected 1990 (NASA Group 13) STS-65, 8 – 23 July 1994 (14d 17h 55m) – International Microgravity Laboratory 2 STS-70, 13 – 22 July 1995 (8d 22h 20m) – Deployed TDRS-G; launch delayed because woodpeckers had made holes in the External Tank insulation! STS-83, 4 – 8 April 1997 (3d 23h 12m) – Microgravity Science Laboratory (MSL-1) STS-94, 1 – 17 July 1997 (15d 16h 44m) – Microgravity Science Laboratory (MSL-1 Reflight – see entry for May 4th) Total flight time 43d 8h 11m Retired July 2007 Aleksandr Skvortsov Jr. (1966) Russia Selected 1997 Soyuz TMA-18/ISS Expeditions 23/24, 2 April – 25 September 2010 (176d 1h 18m) Soyuz TMA-12M/ISS Expeditions 39/40, 25 March – 11 September 2014 (169d 5h 5m) Total flight time to date 345d 6h 23m Still on active flight status Son of unflown cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov Sr. Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 1, 2018 Author Share Posted May 1, 2018 May 7th Gerard Magilton (1942) USA Selected 1985 Backup Payload Specialist on STS-61C Retired January 1986; no flights Tamara Jernigan (1959) USA Selected 1985 (NASA Group 11) STS-40, 5 – 14 June 1991 (9d 2h 14m) – Spacelab Life Sciences 1 STS-52, 22 October – 1 November 1992 (9d 20h 56m) – Deployed Laser Geodynamics Satellite II (LAGEOS-II); US Microgravity Payload 1 STS-67, 2 – 18 March 1995 (16d 15h 8m) – Carried the ASTRO-2 Observatory STS-80, 19 November – 7 December 1996 (17d 15h 53m) – Carried and retrieved the ORFEUS-SPAS II experiment pallet STS-96, 27 May – 6 June 1999 (9d 19h 13m) – Delivered Russian STRELA cargo crane and a US manipulator to the not-yet-operational ISS Total flight time 63d 1h 24m Retired September 2001 Married to astronaut Peter Wisoff Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 8, 2018 Author Share Posted May 8, 2018 May 8th Charles Camarda (1952) USA Selected 1996 (NASA Group 16) STS-114, 26 July - 9 August 2005 (13d 21h 32m) - Delivered equipment and supplies to the ISS. First Shuttle flight following the hiatus after the Columbia accident Retired June 2006 Clemens Lothaller (1963) Austria Selected 1989 Backup for Soyuz TM-13 but not selected Retired October 1991 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 9, 2018 Author Share Posted May 9, 2018 May 9th Vance Brand (1931) USA Selected 1966 (NASA Group 5) Apollo ASTP, 15 - 24 July 1975 (9d 1h 28m) - Docked with Soyuz 19 STS-5, 11 - 16 November 1982 (5d 2h 14m) - First "operational" Shuttle mission; deployed two communications satellites STS-41B, 3 - 11 February 1984 (7d 23h 15m) - Deployed two comsats but both failed to reach operational orbit. First test of the Manned Maneuvering Unit STS-35, 2 - 10 December 1990 (8d 23h 5m) - Carried the ASTRO-1 astrophysics lab Total flight time 31d 2h 2m Retired April 1992 On STS-35 Brand became the oldest man in space to date - 59y 207d at launch Oleg Atkov (1949) USSR Selected 1983 Soyuz T-10/Salyut 7 Expedition 3, 8 February - 2 October 1984 (236d 22h 49m) - Landed aboard Soyuz T-11. Retired October 1984 Expedition 3 was the longest flight to date: Atkov is a physician who monitored the health of the crew Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 10, 2018 Author Share Posted May 10, 2018 May 10th Boris Polyakhov (1938) USSR Selected 1964 Trained for Voskhod 1 but not selected Retired July 1964; no flights Ellen Ochoa (1958) USA Selected 1990 (NASA Group 13) STS-56, 8 - 17 April 1993 (9d 6h 8m) - Carried ATLAS-2 solar observatory package STS-66, 3 - 14 November 1994 (10d 22h 34m) - Carried ATLAS-3 solar observatory STS-96, 27 May - 6 June 1999 (9d 19h 13m) - Delivered supplies and equipment including two manipulator arms to the ISS STS-110, 8 - 19 April 2002 (10d 19h 42m) - Delivered the S-0 truss segment to the ISS (central component of the station's main 'backbone') Total flight time 40d 19h 42m Retired January 2003 Michael McKay (1963) Canada Selected 1992 Retired for medical reasons March 1995; no flights Lisa Marie Nowak (1963) USA Selected 1996 (NASA Group 16) STS-121, 4 - 17 July 2006 (12d 18h 36m) Dismissed from NASA in March 2007 following her arrest and conviction of assault and attempted abduction of Colleen Shipman, an Air Force engineer whom she saw as her rival in a love triangle with fellow astronaut Bill Oefelein. She was sentenced to two days in jail (time-served) and a year of probation. Despite lurid newspaper stories she did not wear an astronaut's Fecal Containment Garment (i.e. a nappy) to avoid having to stop during her drive from Houston to Orlando to confront Shipman. She was also later discharged from the US Navy. Information from Spacefacts website (Apologies for the late posting - I couldn't get my desktop to appear after a Windows upgrade; I finally got it running but had to go out.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 11, 2018 Author Share Posted May 11, 2018 May 11th Luca Urbani (1957) Italy Selected 1995 Backup for STS-78 Life & Microgravity Sciences mission Retired July 1996; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 12, 2018 Author Share Posted May 12, 2018 May 12th Dumitru Dediu (1942) Romania Selected 1978 Backup for Soyuz 40 Retired May 1981; no flights Died July 2013 Gregory H. Johnson (1962) USA - Born Ruislip but became US citizen Selected 1998 (NASA Group 17) STS-123, 11 – 27 March 2008 (15d 18h 11m) – Delivered Japanese Kibo Module to the ISS; partial crew exchange (Reisman up; Eyharts down) STS-134, 16 May - 1 June 2011 (15d 17h 38m) - Delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and other equipment to the ISS; final flight of Endeavour Total flight time 31d 11h 49m Retired August 2013 Not to be confused with Gregory C. Johnson who is also an astronaut Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 13, 2018 Author Share Posted May 13, 2018 May 13th Donald Sorlie (1923) USA Selected 1962 as Military Astronaut Date of retiral not known; no flights Died 9 August 2016 Vladimir Dzhanibekov (1942) USSR Selected 1970 Soyuz 27/Salyut 6 Taxi Flight 1, 10 - 16 January 1978 (5d 22h 58m) - landed aboard Soyuz 26 Soyuz 39/ Salyut 6 Visiting Flight 6, 22 - 30 March 1981 (7d 20h 42m) Soyuz T-6/ Salyut 7 Visiting Flight 1, 24 June - 2 July 1982 (7d 21h 50m) Soyuz T-12/Salyut 7 Visiting Flight 2, 17 - 29 July 1984 (11d 19h 14m) Soyuz T-13/Salyut 7 Expedition 4, 6 June - 26 September 1985 (112d 3h 12m) Total flight time 145d 15h 56m Retired June 1986 Ronald Grabe (1945) USA Selected 1980 (NASA Group 9) STS-51J, 3 - 7 October 1985 (4d 1h 44m) - Classified DoD mission; deployed two military comsats STS-30, 4 - 8 May 1989 (4d 0h 56m) - Deployed the Magellan Venus radar mapper probe STS-42, 22 - 30 January 1992 (8d 1h 14m) - Carried the International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1) STS-57, 21 June - 1 July 1993 (9d 23h 44m) - Deployed and retrieved the EURECA free-flying experiment pallet Total flight time 26d 3h 38m Retired April 1994 Aleksander Kaleri (1956) USSR Selected 1984 Soyuz TM-14/Mir Expedition 11, 17 March - 10 August 1992 (145d 14h 10m) Soyuz TM-24/Mir Expedition 22, 17 August 1996 - 2 March 1997 (196d 17h 26m) Soyuz TM-30/Mir Expedition 28, 4 April - 16 June 2000 (72d 19h 41m) Soyuz TMA-3/ISS Expedition 8, 18 October 2003 - 30 April 2004 (194d 18h 33m) Soyuz TMA-1M/ISS Expeditions 25/26, 7 October 2010 - 16 March 2011 (159d 8h 43m) Total flight time to date 769d 6h 33m Still on active status Claudie Haigneré (1957) France Selected 1985 Soyuz TM-24/Mir Visiting Flight 11, 17 August - 2 September 1996 (15d 18h 23m) - Landed aboard Soyuz TM-23 with Expedition 21 crew Soyuz TM-33/ISS Taxi Flight 2, 21 - 31 October 2001 (9d 19h 59m) - Landed aboard Soyuz TM-32 Total flight time 25d 14h 22m Retired June 2002 Married to astronaut Jean-Pierre Haigneré - wedding took place after her first mission which she flew under her maiden name of André-Deshays Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 14, 2018 Author Share Posted May 14, 2018 May 14th Mars Fatkhullin (1939) USSR Selected 1967 Retired May 1970; no flights Died of a stroke 16 April 2003 Donald McMonagle (1952) USA Selected 1987 (NASA Group 12) STS-39, 28 April - 6 May 1991 (8d 7h 22m) - First unclassified DoD mission; deployed and retrieved a satellite which observed the Orbiter's engine firings from afar STS-54, 13 - 19 January 1993 (5d 23h 38m) - Deployed the TDRS-6 communications satellite STS-66, 3 - 14 November 1994 (10d 22h 34m) - Carried the ATLAS-3 Spacelab Total flight time 25d 5h 34m Retired July 1997 William Gregory (1957) USA Selected 1990 (NASA Group 13) STS-67, 2 - 18 March 1995 (16d 15h 8m) - Carried ASTRO-2 observatory with Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope Retired July 1999 James Kelly (1964) USA Selected 1996 (NASA Group 16) STS-102, 8 - 21 March 2001 (12d 19h 49m) - Delivered and retrieved Leonardo Module to the ISS; also crew exchange (Expedition 2 up; Expedition 1 down) STS-114, 26 July - 9 August 2005 (13d 21h 32m) - Delivered equipment and supplies to the ISS. First Shuttle flight following the hiatus after the Columbia accident Total flight time 26d 17h 21m Retired December 2010 Nikos Halik (1971) Australia Selected 2007 Trained as Spaceflight Participant (fare-paying passenger) for Soyuz TMA-13 but not flown (Richard Garriott was prime crew) Retired October 2008 Jessica Watkins (1988) USA Selected 2017 (NASA Group 22) On active status; no flights yet Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 15, 2018 Author Share Posted May 15, 2018 May 15th Anthony England (1942) USA Selected 1967 (NASA Group 6) STS-51F, 29 July - 6 August 1985 (7d 22h 45m) - Carried Spacelab 2. One engine failed during ascent; the only Abort to Orbit in the Shuttle programme. Retired August 1988 Frank Culbertson (1949) USA Selected 1984 (NASA Group 10) STS-38, 16 - 20 November 1990 (4d 21h 54m) - Classified DoD mission; deployed one reconnaissance satellite and possibly a second STS-51, 12 - 22 September 1993 (9d 20h 11m) - Deployed Advanced Communications Technology Satellite; also deployed and retrieved ORFEUS-SPAS pallet STS-105/ISS Expedition 3, 10 August - 17 December 2001 (128d 20h 45m) - Landed aboard STS-108 Total flight time 143d 14h 50m Retired August 2002 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 16, 2018 Author Share Posted May 16, 2018 May 16th Forrest Petersen (1922) USA Selected 1958 for the X-15 programme Made five flights; none above 100km Retired January 1962 Died of cancer 8 December 1990 Brewster Shaw (1945) USA Selected 1978 (NASA Group 😎 STS-9, 28 November - 8 December 1983 (10d 7h 47m) - Spacelab 1 STS-61B, 27 November - 3 December 1985 (6d 21h 4m) - Deployed two comsats; also practised assembling structures in space using aluminium struts and joints STS-28, 8 - 13 August 1989 (5d 1h 0m) - Classified DoD mission; deployed two reconnaissance satellites Total flight time 22d 5h 51m Retired October 1989 Dafydd Williams (1954) Canada Selected 1992 (Canada Group 2) STS-90. 17 April - 3 May 1998 (15d 21h 50m) - Carried Neurolab to study the human nervous system STS-118, 8 - 21 August 2007 (12d 17h 55m) - Delivered S5 truss segment and other equipment to the ISS Total flight time 28d 15h 45m Retired March 2008 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 17, 2018 Author Share Posted May 17, 2018 May 17th Louis Butterworth (1948) USA Selected 1984 Engineer with Hughes Aerospace; backup for STS-51L (the Challenger accident) Retired 1986; no flights Joseph Acaba (1967) USA Selected 2004 (NASA Group 19) STS-119, 15 - 28 March 2009 (12d 19h 29m) - Delivered S6 Truss and the fourth set of solar arrays to the ISS; also partial crew exchange (Wakata up; Magnus down) Soyuz TMA-04M/ISS Expeditions 31/32, 15 May - 17 September 2012 (124d 23h 51m) Soyuz MS-06/ISS Expeditions 53/54, 12 September 2017 - 28 February 2018 (168d 5h 14m) Total flight time to date 306d 0h 34m Still on active status Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 18, 2018 Author Share Posted May 18, 2018 May 18th Don Lind (1930) USA Selected 1966 (NASA Group 5) STS-51B, 29 April - 6 May 1985 (7d 0h 8m) - Carried Spacelab 3 Retired April 1986 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 19, 2018 Author Share Posted May 19, 2018 May 19th James Abrahamson (1933) USA Selected 1967 (MOL Group 3) Trained to fly aboard the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory but programme cancelled Retired 1969; no flights Dick Scobee (1939) USA Selected 1978 (NASA Group 8 ) STS-41C, 6 - 13 April 1984 (6d 23h 40m) - Deployed Long Duration Exposure Facility and repaired and redeployed Solar Max satellite Killed in Challenger accident, 28 January 1986 (not classed as a space flight as vehicle did not exceed 100km altitude) Jean-Pierre Haigneré (1948) France Selected 1985 Soyuz TM-17/Mir Visiting Flight 9, 1 - 22 July 1993 (20d 16h 8m) - Landed with Mir Expedition 13 crew aboard Soyuz TM-16 Soyuz TM-29/Mir Expedition 27, 20 February - 28 August 1999 (188d 20h 16m) Total flight time 209d 12h 24m Retired May 2003 Married to cosmonaut Claudie Haigneré Pierre Thuot (1955) USA Selected 1985 (NASA Group 11) STS-36, 28 February - 4 March 1990 (4d 10h 18m) - Classified DoD mission; deployed a military communications satellite STS-49, 8 - 16 May 1992 (8d 21h 17m) - Repaired and redeployed Intelsat-VI F-3 which was stuck in low orbit. First flight of Endeavour STS-62, 4 - 18 March 1994 (13d 23h 16m) - Carried US Microgravity Payload 2 experiments package Total flight time 27d 6h 51m Retired 1995 Scott Tingle (1965) USA Selected 2009 (NASA Group 20) Soyuz MS-07/ISS Expeditions 54/55, launched 17 December 2017; currently on-orbit (Flight time to date ~153 days) Scheduled to return to Earth 3 June Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 May 20th David Walker (1944) USA Selected 1978 (NASA Group 8 ) STS-51A, 8 - 16 November 1984 (7d 23h 44m) - Deployed two comsats; retrieved two more which were stranded in low orbit and returned them to Earth for repair STS-30, 4 - 8 May 1989 (4d 0h 56m) - Deployed the Magellan Venus Radar Mapper probe STS-53, 2 - 9 December 1992 (7d 7h 19m) - Classified DoD mission; deployed a military comsat STS-69, 7 - 18 September 1995 (10d 20h 28m) - Deployed and retrieved the Wake Shield Facility and SPARTAN 201 pallet (on its third flight) Total flight time 30d 4h 27m Retired April 1996 Died of cancer 23 April 2001 Nikolai Fefelov (1945) USSR Selected 1970 Retired April 1995; no flights Tom Akers (1951) USA Selected 1987 (NASA Group 12) STS-41, 6 - 10 October 1990 (4d 0h 10m) - Deployed the Ulysses Solar Polar probe to study the poles of the Sun (used Jupiter fly-by to take it out of the ecliptic plane) STS-49, 8 - 16 May 1992 (8d 21h 17m) - Repaired and redeployed Intelsat-VI F-3 which was stuck in low orbit. First flight of Endeavour STS-61, 2 - 13 December 1993 (10d 19h 58m) - First Hubble servicing mission: replaced solar arrays and corrected manufacturing problem with primary mirror STS-79, 16 - 26 September 1996 (10d 3h 18m) - Fourth Shuttle-Mir Mission; crew exchange (Blaha up; Lucid down) Total flight time 33d 22h 43m Retired August 1997 Paul Richards (1964) USA Selected 1996 (NASA Group 16) STS-102, 8 - 21 March 2001 (12d 19h 49m) - Delivered equipment and supplies to the ISS; also crew exchange (Expedition 2 up; Expedition 1 down) Retired February 2002 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 21, 2018 Author Share Posted May 21, 2018 May 21st Anatoli Levchenko (1941) USSR Selected 1977 Soyuz TM-4/Mir Visiting Flight 3, 21 - 29 December 1987 (7d 21h 58m) - Landed aboard Soyuz TM-3 with Expedition 2 crew Was in training to fly the Soviet Space Shuttle but died of a brain tumour 6 August 1988 Robert Springer (1942) USA Selected 1980 (NASA Group 9) STS-29. 13 - 18 March 1989 (4d 23h 38m) - Deployed TDRS-D satellite STS-38, 15 - 20 November 1990 (4d 21h 54m) - Classified DoD mission; deployed military reconnaissance satellite Magnum-3 Total flight time 9d 21h 32m Retired December 1990 Ernst Messerschmid (1945) West Germany Selected 1982 STS-61A, 30 October - 6 November 1985 (7d 0h 44m) - Carried the German-financed Spacelab D-1 Retired November 1985 Ivan Bella (1964) Slovakia Selected 1998 Soyuz TM-29/Mir Visiting Flight 15, 20 - 28 February 1999 (7d 21h 56m) - landed aboard Soyuz TM-28 Retired February 1999 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 22, 2018 Author Share Posted May 22, 2018 May 22nd Galina Amelkina (1954) USSR Selected 1980 Retired 1983 for medical reasons; no flights Died of cancer 20 February 2014 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 23, 2018 Author Share Posted May 23, 2018 May 23rd Thomas Reiter (1958) Germany Selected 1992 (ESA Group 2) Soyuz TM-22/Mir Expedition 20, 3 September 1995 - 29 February 1996 (179d 1h 41m) STS-121/ISS Expeditions 13/14, 4 July - 22 December 2006 (171d 3h 54m) Total flight time 350d 5h 35m Retired September 2007 Mark Serov (1974) Russia Selected 2003 Retired possibly for medical reasons January 2011; no flights Married to cosmonaut Yelena Serova Nikolai Tikhonov (1982) Russia Selected 2006 On active status; no flights yet Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 24, 2018 Author Share Posted May 24, 2018 May 24th Ron Parise 1951 (USA) Selected 1984 (ASTRO Group) STS-35, 2 - 10 December 1990 (8d 23h 5m) - Carried ASTRO-1 Spacelab STS-67, 2 - 18 March 1995 (16d 15h 8m) - Carried ASTRO-2 Spacelab Total flight time 25d 14h 13m Retired March 1995 Died 9 May 2008 Maksim Surayev (1972) Russia Selected 1997 Soyuz TMA-16/ISS Expeditions 21/22, 30 September 2009 - 18 March 2010 (169d 4h 9m) Soyuz TMA-13M/ISS Expeditions 40/41, 28 May - 10 November 2014 (165d 8h 1m) Total flight time 334d 12h 10m Retired September 2016 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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