GordonD Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 July 1st Kalpana Chawla (1961) USA - Born Karnal, India but US Citizen She was actually born 17 March 1962 but her official date of birth was altered so she could start college early Selected 1994 (NASA Group 15) STS-87, 19 November - 5 December 1997 (15d 16h 34m) STS-107, 16 January - 1 February 2003 (15d 22h 20m to loss of signal) - Carried US Microgravity Laboratory Killed when Orbiter Columbia broke up over Texas during re-entry Total flight time 31d 14h 54m Edward Lu (1963) USA Selected 1994 (NASA Group 15) STS-84, 15 - 24 May 1997 (9d 5h 20m) - Sixth docking with Mir; crew exchange (Foale up; Linenger down) STS-106, 8 - 20 September 2000 (11d 19h 10m) - Delivered equipment and supplies to the ISS in preparation for the arrival of the Expedition 1 crew Soyuz TMA-2/ISS Expedition 7, 26 April - 28 October 2003 (184d 22h 46m) - First flight following the Columbia accident Total flight time 205d 23h 16m Retired August 2007 Information from Spacefacts website 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 2, 2018 Author Share Posted July 2, 2018 July 2nd Iven Kincheloe (1928) USA Selected 1958 (Man In Space Soonest Group) Candidate for MISS but programme cancelled in favour of Mercury Project Flew the X-15; first man to exceed an altitude of 100,000 feet (7 September 1956) Killed in F-104 crash, 26 July 1958 Valery Illarianov (1939) USSR Selected 1970 Trained for the Buran (Soviet Shuttle); programme cancelled Retired October 1992; no flights Died of cancer, 10 March 1999 Georgi Ivanov (1940) Bulgaria Selected 1978 Soyuz 33, 10 - 12 April 1979 (1d 23h 1m) - Failed to achieve docking with Salyut 6 so mission curtailed Retired April 1979 Original name was Georgi Ivanov Kakalov but his family name was dropped because 'Kakalov' is a Russian obscenity Linda Godwin (1952) USA Selected 1985 (NASA Group 11) STS-37, 5 - 11 April 1991 (5d 23h 32m) - Deployed Arthur Holly Compton Gamma Ray Observatory; unplanned EVA required to release the stuck main antenna STS-59, 9 - 20 April 1994 (11d 5h 49m) - Carried Space Radar Laboratory STS-76, 22 - 31 March 1996 (9d 5h 16m) - Third Shuttle/Mir docking; Lucid joined resident crew STS-108, 5 - 17 December 2001 (11d 19h 35m) - Delivered supplies and equipment to ISS; also crew exchange (Expedition 4 up; Expedition 3 down) Total flight time 38d 6h 12m Retired August 2010 Wendy Lawrence (1959) USA Selected 1992 (NASA Group 14) STS-67, 2 - 18 March 1995 (16d 15h 8m) - Carried ASTRO-2 laboratory STS-86, 26 September - 6 October 1997 (9d 19h 54m) - Seventh Shuttle/Mir docking; crew exchange (Wolf up; Foale down) STS-91, 2 - 12 June 1998 (9d 19h 54m) - Ninth and final Shuttle/Mir docking; Thomas returned to Earth STS-114, 26 July - 9 August 2005 (13d 21h 32m) - First Shuttle flight following the Columbia accident; delivered equipment and supplies to the ISS Total flight time 51d 3h 54m Retired June 2006 On STS-86 Lawrence was originally meant to become resident crewmember aboard Mir but was replaced by Wolf as she was too small to use the Russian spacesuit Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 3, 2018 Author Share Posted July 3, 2018 July 3rd Mikhail Rebrov (1931) USSR Selected 1965 Journalist with Krasnaya Zvezda magazine ("Red Star"); linked with the Soviet lunar landing programme but did not undergo full cosmonaut training Retired 1974 Died of cancer 24 April 1998 Jack Schmitt (1935) USA Selected 1965 (NASA Group 4) Originally assigned as LMP on Apollo 18 but when that mission was cancelled was switched to Apollo 17 so that a geologist would go to the Moon Apollo 17, 7 - 19 December 1972 (12d 13h 52m) - Sixth Moon landing; twelfth man to walk on the Moon Retired 30 August 1975 Norman Thagard (1943) USA Selected 1978 (NASA Group 8 ) STS-7, 18 - 24 June 1983 (6d 2h 24m) - Deployed two comsats. First flight with a crew of five; first with an American woman; first deployment and retrieval of a satellite STS-51B, 29 April - 6 May 1985 (7d 0h 8m) - Carried Spacelab 3 STS-30, 4 - 8 May 1989 (4d 0h 56m) - Deployed the Magellan Venus Radar Mapper (reached the planet in August 1990) STS-42, 22 - 30 January 19982 (8d 1h 14m) - Carried International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1) Soyuz TM-21/Mir Expedition 18, 14 March - 7 July 1995 (115d 8h 43m) - Landed aboard STS-71. First American astronaut to fly on Soyuz and to live aboard Mir Total flight time 140d 13h 25m Retired January 1996 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 4, 2018 Author Share Posted July 4, 2018 July 4th Richard Garriott (1961) USA - Born in Cambridge but US Citizen Selected 2007 Soyuz TMA-13/ISS Visiting Flight 11, 12 - 24 October 2008 (11d 20h 35m) - Spaceflight Participant (fare-paying tourist); landed aboard Soyuz TMA-12 Retired October 2008 Son of Skylab and Shuttle astronaut Owen Garriott Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 5, 2018 Author Share Posted July 5, 2018 July 5th Tom Henricks (1952) USA Selected 1985 (NASA Group 11) STS-44, 24 November - 1 December 1991 (6d 22h 50m) - DoD mission; deployed a satellite to detect nuclear detonations and missile launches STS-55, 26 April - 6 May 1993 (9d 23h 40m) - Carried the German-financed Spacelab D-2 STS-70, 13 - 22 July 1995 (8d 22h 20m) - Deployed TDRS-G comsat. Launch delayed due to damage of the External Tank foam insulation by woodpeckers! STS-78, 20 June - 7 July 1996 (16d 21h 47m) - Carried Life & Microgravity Sciences in Spacelab module Total flight time 42d 18h 37m Retired October 1997 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 6, 2018 Author Share Posted July 6, 2018 July 6th Robert White (1924) USA Selected 1960 (X-15 Group 1) Made sixteen X-15 flights though none over 100km so not classified as space flights Retired December 1962 Died 17 March 2010 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Mc Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 I hadn't realised that Richard Garriott had retired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 16 hours ago, Eric Mc said: I hadn't realised that Richard Garriott had retired. Well, as a fare-paying passenger he technically retired from active flight status as soon as he landed. Nothing to stop him paying for a second flight though - Charles Simonyi did it. Thanks for the question though - nice to know that people are actually taking this in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 July 7th Paul Sefcheck (1946) USA Selected 1979 (Manned Spaceflight Engineer Group 1) Retired August 1985; no flights Died of cancer 23 July 1997 Kevin Ford (1960) USA Selected 2000 (NASA Group 18) STS-128, 29 August - 12 September 2009 (13d 20h 53m) - Delivered equipment and supplies to the ISS; crew exchange (Stott up; Kopra down) Soyuz TMA-06M/ISS Expeditions 33/34, 23 October 2012 - 16 March 2013 (143d 16h 15m) Total flight time 157d 13h 8m Retired January 2014 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 8, 2018 Author Share Posted July 8, 2018 July 8th Vitali Sevastyanov (1935) USSR Selected 1968 Soyuz 9, 1 - 19 June 1970 (17d 16h 58m) - Earth-observation mission, last before introduction of Salyut. First manned night launch Soyuz 18/Salyut 4 Expedition 2, 24 May - 26 July 1975 (62d 23h 20m) - Mission flown by backup crew after original flight aborted prior to orbit insertion Total flight time 80d 16h 18m Retired December 1993 Died 5 April 2010 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 9, 2018 Author Share Posted July 9, 2018 July 9th John Casper (1943) USA Selected 1984 (NASA Group 10) STS-36, 28 February - 4 March 1990 (4d 10h 18m) - Classified DoD mission; deployed militaty reconnaissance satellite STS-54, 13 - 19 January 1993 (5d 23h 38m) - Deployed TDRS-F communications satellite STS-62, 4 - 18 March 1994 (13d 23h 16m) - Carried the second US Microgravity Payload (USMP-2) STS-77, 19 - 29 May 1996 (10d 0h 39m) - Deployed and retrieved free-flying SPARTAN experiment pallet Total flight time 34d 9h 51m Retired 1997 Irina Latysheva (1953) USSR Selected 1990 Retired March 1983; no flights Sergei Krichevsky (1955) USSR Selected 1989 Retired June 1998; no flights Christopher Loria (1960) Selected 1996 (NASA Group 16) In training for STS-113 but sustained a severe back injury which permanently grounded him Retired 2005; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 10, 2018 Author Share Posted July 10, 2018 July 10th Pyotr Klimuk (1942) USSR Selected 1965 Soyuz 13, 18 - 26 December 1973 (7d 20h 55m) - Carried Orion 2 astrophysical camera; conducted stellar observations in the ultraviolet range Soyuz 18/Salyut 4 Expedition 2, 24 May - 26 July 1975 (62d 23h 20m) - Mission flown by backup crew after original flight aborted prior to orbit insertion Soyuz 30/Salyut 6 Visiting Flight 2, 27 June - 5 July 1978 (7d 22h 2m) Total flight time 78d 18h 17m Retired March 1982 Christopher Holmes (1950) United Kingdom Selected 1984 Backup for STS-71C; mission cancelled following the Challenger accident Retired January 1986 Dmitri Petelin (1983) Russia Selected 2012 On active status; no flights yet Ivan Vagner (1985) Russia Selected 2010 On active status; no flights yet Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 11, 2018 Author Share Posted July 11, 2018 July 11th Lawrence DeLucas (1950) USA Selected 1990 STS-50, 25 June - 9 July 1992 (13d 19h 30m) - Carried US Microgravity Laboratory (USML-1) Retired July 1992 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 12, 2018 Author Share Posted July 12, 2018 July 12th Rick Husband (1957) USA Selected 1994 (NASA Group 15) STS-96, 27 May - 6 June 1999 (9d 19h 13m) - Delivered supplies and equipment to the ISS for use by a future assembly crew prior to first occupation STS-107, 16 January - 1 February 2003 (15d 22h 20m to loss of signal) - Carried US Microgravity Laboratory Killed when Orbiter Columbia broke up over Texas during re-entry Total flight time 25d 17h 33m Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 13, 2018 Author Share Posted July 13, 2018 July 13th Aleksei Yeliseyev (1934) USSR Selected 1968 Soyuz 5, 15 - 17 January 1969 (1d 23h 45m) - First docking of two manned spacecraft (Landed aboard Soyuz 4) Soyuz 8, 13 - 18 October 1969 (4d 22h 50m) - 'Troika' mission with Soyuz 6 & 7; planned docking with Soyuz 7 cancelled because automatic rendezvous system failed Soyuz 10, 21 - 23 April 1971 (1d 23h 45m) - Docked with Salyut 1; should have been Expedition 1 but failed to get airtight seal and mission abandoned Total flight time 8d 22h 20m Retired December 1985 Viktor Chirkin (1944) USSR Selected 1979 Trained for Buran Soviet Shuttle but programme cancelled Retired 1982 apparently because he did not believe the spacecraft would ever fly George Nelson (1950) USA Selected 1978 (NASA Group 8 ) STS-41C, 6 - 13 April 1984 (6d 23h 40m) - Deployed LDEF; also retrieved, repaired and redeployed the malfunctioning Solar Max satellite STS-61C, 12 - 18 January 1986 (6d 2h 3m) - Deployed communications satellite; also carried Materials Science Laboratory. Last flight prior to Challenger accident STS-26, 29 September - 2 October 1988 (4d 1h 0m) - First flight after the Challenger accident; deployed TDRS-C relay satellite Total flight time 17d 2h 43m Retired June 1989 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 14, 2018 Author Share Posted July 14, 2018 July 14th Robert Overmyer (1936) USA Selected 1966 (MOL Group 2; transferred to NASA 1969) STS-5, 11 - 16 November 1982 (5d 2h 14m) - First "operational" Shuttle flight; deployed two comsats STS-51B, 29 April - 6 May 1985 (7d 0h 8m) - Carried Spacelab 3 Total flight time 12d 2h 22m Retired June 1986 Killed in air crash 22 March 1996 Tatyana Kuznetsova (1941) USSR Selected 1962 Backup for planned Voskhod 5; programme cancelled in favour of Soyuz Retired October 1969; no flights Esther Dyson (1951) USA Selected 2008 Backup Spaceflight Participant (fare-paying tourist) on Soyuz TMA-14 Retired April 2009; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 July 15th Benoit Silve (1958) France Selected 1990 (France Group 3) Candidate for Soyuz TM-15 'Antares' mission but not selected as prime or backup Retired 1993; no flights Alexander Dunlap (1960) USA Selected 1996 Backup for STS-90 Neurolab Retired May 1998; no flights Jessica Meir (1977) USA Selected 2013 (NASA Group 21) On active status; no flights yet Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 16, 2018 Author Share Posted July 16, 2018 July 16th Valeri Maksimenko (1950) USSR Selected 1990 Basic cosmonaut training for Buran missions but programme cancelled Retired 1991; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 17, 2018 Author Share Posted July 17, 2018 July 17th Janet Kavandi (1959) USA Selected 1994 (NASA Group 15) STS-91, 2 - 12 June 1998 (9d 19h 54m) - Ninth and final Shuttle/Mir docking; Thomas returned to Earth STS-99, 11 - 22 February 2000 (11d 5h 38m) - Shuttle Radar Topography Mission - took nearly one trillion measurements of Earth's topography for improved mapping STS-104, 12 - 25 July 2001 (12d 18h 35m) - Delivered the Quest Joint Airlock to the ISS (required as US space-suits don't fit through the Russian airlock) Total flight time 33d 20h 7m Retired 2005 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 19, 2018 Author Share Posted July 19, 2018 Apologies for the delay here - I did write it yesterday but apparently forgot to post it! July 18th John Glenn (1921) USA Selected 1959 (NASA Group 1) Mercury-Atlas 6/Friendship 7, 20 February 1962 (4h 55m) - First US orbital flight Retired January 1964 Selected 1998 for Shuttle mission STS-95, 29 October - 7 November 1998 (8d 21h 44m) - Carried a variety of scientific payloads. Glenn became the oldest man in space (77 years 103 days at launch) Total flight time 9d 2h 39m Retired November 1998 Died 8 December 2016 Josh Cassada (1973) USA Selected 2013 (NASA Group 21) On active status; no flights yet Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 19, 2018 Author Share Posted July 19, 2018 July 19th Roy Bridges (1943) USA Selected 1980 (NASA Group 9) STS-51F, 29 July - 6 August 1985 (7d 22h 45m) - Carried Spacelab 2 Retired March 1986 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 20, 2018 Author Share Posted July 20, 2018 July 20th Vladimir Lyakhov (1941) USSR Selected 1967 Soyuz 32/Salyut 6 Expedition 3, 25 February - 19 August 1979 (175d 0h 35m) - Landed aboard Soyuz 34 Soyuz T-9/Salyut 7 Expedition 2 , 27 June - 23 November 1983 (149d 10h 46m) Soyuz TM-6/Mir Visiting Flight 3, 29 August - 7 September 1988 (8d 20h 26m) - Landed aboard Soyuz TM-5 Total flight time 333d 7h 47m Retired September 1994 Died 19 April 2018 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 July 21st Otto Hoernig (1938) USA Selected 1984 Would possibly have flown on an AmSat deployment flight but mission cancelled after the Challenger accident Retired 1986; no flights Nigel Wood (1949) United Kingdom Selected 1984 Assigned to STS-61H; mission cancelled following the Challenger accident. Would likely have been the first UK citizen in space Retired 1986; no flights Frank Casserino (1955) USA Selected 1979 (Manned Spaceflight Engineer Group 1) Assigned to STS-41H; mission cancelled following the Challenger accident Retired April 1986; no flights Information from Spacefacts and US Air Force websites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 July 22nd Yuri Artyukhin (1930) USSR Selected 1963 Soyuz 14/Salyut 3 Expedition 1, 3 - 19 July 1974 (15d 17h 30m) - Conducted military observation, some science experiments. Retired 1982 Died of cancer 4 August 1998 Some sources give date of birth as 22 June Toyohiro Akiyama (1942) Japan Selected 1989 Soyuz TM-11/Mir Visiting Flight 4, 2 - 10 December 1990 (7d 21h 54m) - Landed aboard Soyuz TM-10. Retired December 1990 Journalist who made several TV and radio broadcasts from orbit. His employer, Tokyo Broadcasting System, paid for his seat so he is technically the first commercial passenger Kenneth Bechis (1949) USA Selected 1987 Assigned to STS-50 StarLab but mission cancelled (designation later used for USML-1) Retired September 1990; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 July 23rd Elliot See (1927) USA Selected 1962 (NASA Group 2) Assigned to Gemini IX but killed 28 February 1966 in T-38 crash at the McDonnell plant in St Louis while flying to inspect the spacecraft Because of the deaths of See and his colleague Charlie Bassett, Gemini IX was flown by its backup crew, Stafford and Cernan. Had things gone according to plan, then they would have skipped the next two missions and flown Gemini XII, as per NASA's crew selection policy of the time. As things turned out, they were replaced in the reserve slots by the Gemini X backups, Lovell and Aldrin, who under the same policy would have been left with no mission as there was no Gemini XIII. However as the new backups on Nine, they ultimately flew Gemini XII, and this mission gave Aldrin the flight experience he needed to be eligible for Apollo 11. The demanding first lunar landing (like Apollo 10 before it) had no 'rookie' astronauts, so had Elliot See lived then Aldrin would not yet have flown and the historic team of Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins would not have existed. Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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