GordonD Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 August 1st Yuri Romanenko (1944) USSR Selected 1970 Soyuz 26/Salyut 6 Expedition 1, 10 December 1977 - 16 March 1978 (96d 10h 0m) - Landed aboard Soyuz 27 Soyuz 38/Salyut 6 Visiting Flight 4. 18 - 26 September 1980 (7d 20h 43m) Soyuz TM-2/Mir Expedition 2, 5 February - 29 December 1987 (326d 11h 38m) - Landed aboard Soyuz TM-3 Total flight time 430d 18h 21m Retired October 1988 Dick Covey (1946) USA Selected 1978 (NASA Group 8 ) STS-51I, 27 August - 3 September 1985 (7d 2h 17m) - Deployed three comsats; also retrieved, repaired and relaunched a fourth STS-26. 29 September - 3 October 1988 (4d 1h 0m) - Deployed TDRS-B satellite for easier communication with spacecraft. First flight after the Challenger accident STS-38, 16 - 20 November 1990 (4d 21h 54m) - Classified DoD mission; deployed a military reconnaissance satellite STS-61, 2 - 13 December 1993 (10d 19h 58m) - First Hubble servicing mission; restored the telescope's planned capabilities to the originally expected standards Total flight time 26d 21h 9m Retired July 1994 Was CAPCOM at the time of the Challenger accident Koichi Wakata (1963) Japan Selected 1992 STS-72, 11 - 20 January 1996 (8d 22h 0m) - Retrieved Japanese Space Flyer Unit satellite (launched March 1995) STS-92, 11 - 24 October 2000 (12d 21h 42m) - Delivered Z1 Truss, Pressurised Mating Adapter and other equipment to the ISS ready for the arrival of Expedition 1 STS-119/ISS Expeditions 18/19/20, 14 March - 31 July 2009 (127d 15h 4m) Soyuz TMA-11M/ISS Expeditions 38/39, 7 November 2013 - 14 May 2014 (187d 21h 44m) Still on active status; total flight time to date 347d 8h 30m When STS-92 landed it was the last time to date that no astronauts remained in orbit Information from Spacefacts website 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 August 2nd Valeri Bykovsky (1934) USSR Selected 1960 Vostok 5, 14 - 19 June 1963 (4d 23h 7m) - Joint flight with Vostok 6 (no rendezvous). Still the longest solo mission Soyuz 22, 15 - 23 September 1976 (7d 21h 52m) - Earth-resources photography mission; used the backup ASTP spacecraft, unsuitable as a Salyut ferry Soyuz 31/Salyut 6 Taxi Flight 2, 26 August - 3 September 1978 (7d 20h 49m) - Landed aboard Soyuz 29 Total flight time 20d 17h 48m Retired 20d 17h 48m Bertalan Farkas (1949) Hungary Selected 1978 Soyuz 36/Salyut 6 Taxi Flight 3, 26 May - 3 June 1980 (7d 20h 45m) - Landed aboard Soyuz 35 Retired June 1980 Information from Spacefacts website 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 3, 2018 Author Share Posted August 3, 2018 August 3rd Georgi Shonin (1935) USSR Selected 1960 Soyuz 6, 11 - 16 October 1969 (4d 22h 42m) - 'Troika' mission with Soyuz 7 & 8. Was to have filmed those craft docking but automatic rendezvous systems failed Retired April 1979 Died 7 April 1997 Joan Higginbotham (1964) USA Selected 1996 (NASA Group 16) STS-116, 10 - 22 December 2006 (12d 20h 44m) Retired November 2007 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 4, 2018 Author Share Posted August 4, 2018 August 4th Vladimir Benderov (1924) USSR Selected 1964 Trained for a Voskhod mission but programme cancelled in favour of Soyuz Retired July 1964; no flights Killed 3 June 1973 in crash of Tu-144 airliner at Le Bourget Air Show Michael McCulley (1943) USA Selected 1984 (NASA Group 10) STS-34, 18 - 23 October 1989 (4d 23h 39m) - Deployed the Galileo Jupiter probe Retired October 1990 Andrew Allen (1955) USA Selected 1987 (NASA Group 12) STS-46, 31 July - 8 August 1992 (7d 23h 15m) - Deployed EURECA-1 experiment pallet (retrieved on STS-57) and Tethered Satellite System (tether jammed) STS-62, 4 - 18 March 1994 (13d 23h 16m) - Carried US Microgravity Payload (USMP-2) STS-75, 22 February - 9 March 1996 (15d 17h 40m) - Carried USMP-3 and Tethered Satellite System (tether broke) Total flight time 37d 16h 11m Retired October 1997 Charles Gemar (1955) USA Selected 1985 (NASA Group 11) STS-38, 16 - 21 November 1990 (4d 21h 55m) - Classified DoD mission; deployed Magnum-3 military reconnaissance satellite STS-48, 13 - 18 September 1991 (5d 8h 27m) - Deployed the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite STS-62, 4 - 18 March 1994 (13d 23h 16m) - Carried US Microgravity Payload (USMP-2) Total flight time 24d 5h 38m Retired 1996 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 5, 2018 Author Share Posted August 5, 2018 August 5th Neil Armstrong (1930) USA Selected 1962 (NASA Group 2) Gemini VIII, 16 - 17 March 1966 (10h 41m) - First orbital docking; mission aborted when spacecraft began rolling uncontrollably due to a stuck attitude thruster Apollo 11, 16 - 24 July 1969 (8d 3h 18m) - First man on the Moon Total flight time 8d 13h 59m Retired August 1970 Died 25 August 2012 Leonid Kizim (1941) USSR Selected 1965 Soyuz T-3/Salyut 6 Visiting Flight 5, 27 November - 10 December 1980 (12d 19h 7m) Soyuz T-10/Salyut 7 Expedition 3, 8 February - 2 October 1984 (236d 22h 49m) - Landed aboard Soyuz T-11 Soyuz T-15/Mir Expedition 1/Salyut 7 Expedition 6, 13 March - 16 July 1986 (125d 0h 0m) - First transfer between two orbiting space stations (carried out twice) Total flight time 374d 17h 56m Retired June 1987 Died 14 June 2010 Andrei Zaytsev (1957) USSR Selected 1985 Retired March 1996; no flights Died 5 May 2010 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 6, 2018 Author Share Posted August 6, 2018 August 6th Winston Scott (1950) USA Selected 1992 (NASA Group 14) STS-72, 11 - 20 January 1996 (8d 22h 0m) - Retrieved the Japanese Space Flyer Unit launched March 1995; deployed and retrieved SPARTAN-206 experiment pallet STS-87, 19 November - 5 December 1997 (15d 16h 34m) - Carried US Microgravity Payload USMP-4 Total flight time 24d 14h 34m Retired July 1999 Greg Chamitoff (1962) USA Selected 1998 (NASA Group 17) STS-124/ISS Expeditions 17/18, 31 May - 30 November 2008 (183d 0h 22m) - Landed aboard STS-126 STS-134, 16 May - 1 June 2011 (15d 17h 38m) - Delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the ISS. Final flight of Endeavour Total flight time 198d 18h 0m Retired September 2013 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 7, 2018 Author Share Posted August 7, 2018 August 7th Kent Rominger (1956) USA Selected 1992 (NASA Group 14) STS-73, 20 October - 5 November 1995 (15d 21h 52m) - Carried US Microgravity Payload USMP-2 STS-80, 19 November - 7 December 1996 (17d 15h 53m) - Deployed and retrieved ORFEUS-SPAS-II free-flyer experiment pallet STS-85, 7 - 19 August 1997 (11d 20h 26m) - Deployed and retrieved CRISTA-SPAS-2 free-flyer pallet STS-96, 27 May - 6 June 1999 (9d 19h 13m) - Delivered Russian STRELA cargo crane and other equipment and supplies to the unoccupied ISS STS-100, 19 April - 1 May 2001 (11d 21h 30m) - Delivered Canadarm manipulator to the ISS; delivered and retrieved Rafaello logistics module Total flight time 67d 2h 54m Retired September 2006 José Hernández (1962) USA Selected 2004 (NASA Group 19) STS-128, 29 August - 12 September 2009 (13d 20h 53m) - Delivered and retrieved Leonardo logistics module to the ISS Retired January 2011 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 8, 2018 Author Share Posted August 8, 2018 August 8th Dennis Tito (1940) USA Selected 2000 Soyuz TM-32/ISS Taxi Flight 1, 28 April - 6 May 2001 (7d 22h 4m) - Landed aboard Soyuz TM-31. First fare-paying passenger in space Retired May 2001 Dennis Boesen (1942) USA Selected 1987 Assigned to a Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") research flight but programme and mission cancelled Retired 1990; no flights Andrea Lorenzoni (1946) Italy Selected 1984 Would have been a candidate for a Tethered Satellite mission Retired 1986; no flights Svetlana Savitskaya (1948) USSR Selected 1980 Soyuz T-7/Salyut 7 Taxi Flight 1, 19 - 27 August 1982 (7d 21h 52m) - Landed aboard Soyuz T-5. Soyuz T-12/Salyut 7 Visiting Flight 2, 17 - 29 July 1984 (11d 19h 14m) Total flight time 19d 17h 6m Retired October 1993 On Soyuz T-7 Savistskaya became the second woman in space; she was selected because NASA had announced that Sally Ride would become the first American female to go into orbit and the Soviets wanted to beat her On Soyuz T-12 Savitskaya became the first woman to fly in space twice and to carry out an EVA. NASA had recently announced the crew of STS-41G, in which Sally Ride would become the first woman to fly twice, and Kathy Sullivan would make the first female EVA. Again her selection was purely to claim both of these records for the USSR. To date only FOUR female Russian cosmonauts have flown in space Béla Magyari (1949) Hungary Selected 1978 Backup for Soyuz 36 Retired June 1980; no flights Died 23 April 2018 Larry James (1956) USA Selected 1982 (Manned Spaceflight Engineer Group 2) Candidate for a DoD mission but not assigned Retired December 1987; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 9, 2018 Author Share Posted August 9, 2018 August 9th James Wood (1924) USA Selected 1962 (USAF X-20 Group) Would have piloted the X-20 Dyna-Soar but programme cancelled Retired December 1963; no flights Died 1 January 1990 Roman Romanenko (1971) Russia Selected 1997 Soyuz TMA-15/ISS Expeditions 20/21, 27 May - 1 December 2009 (187d 20h 41m) Soyuz TMA-07M/ISS Expeditions 34/35, 19 December 2012 - 14 May 2013 (145d 14h 18m) Total flight time 333d 10h 59m Retired November 2014 Son of cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko - second "second generation" spaceman, after Richard Garriott Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 10, 2018 Author Share Posted August 10, 2018 August 10th Nikolai Pushenko (1952) USSR Selected 1990 Undertook cosmonaut training but never assigned to a mission Retired September 1996; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 11, 2018 Author Share Posted August 11, 2018 August 11th Frederick Sturckow (1961) USA Selected 1994 (NASA Group 15) STS-88. 4 - 15 December 1998 (11d 19h 18m) - Delivered Node (Unity) module to connect with Russian FGB core Zarya; first link-up of two ISS components STS-105, 10 - 22 August 2001 (11d 21h 12m) - Delivered supplies and equipment to the ISS; also crew rotation (Expedition 3 up; Expedition 2 down) STS-117, 8 - 22 June 2007 (13d 20h 11m) - Delivered S3/S4 truss to the ISS; also partial crew exchange (Anderson up; Williams down) STS-128, 29 August - 12 September 2009 (13d 20h 53m) - Delivered supplies and equipment to the ISS; also partial crew exchange (Stott up; Kopra down) Total flight time 51d 9h 34m Retired March 2013 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 12, 2018 Author Share Posted August 12, 2018 August 12th Charles Brady (1951) USA Selected 1992 (NASA Group 14) STS-78, 20 June - 7 July 1996 (16d 21h 47m) - Carried Spacelab Life and Microgravity Sciences Retired August 2002 Committed suicide 23 July 2006 following a lengthy arthritis-related illness Information from Spacefacts website and Wikipedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 13, 2018 Author Share Posted August 13, 2018 August 13th Robert Stewart (1942) USA Selected 1978 (NASA Group 8 ) STS-41B, 3 - 11 February 1984 (7d 23h 15m) - Deployed two comsats, both failed to reach planned orbit. Stewart carried out second MMU test STS-51J, 3 - 7 October 1985 (4d 1h 44m) - Classified DoD mission; deployed two military comsats Total flight time 12d 0h 49m Retired January 1986 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 14, 2018 Author Share Posted August 14, 2018 August 14th Jon McBride (1943) USA Selected 1978 (NASA Group 8 ) STS-41G, 5 - 13 October 1984 (8d 5h 23m) - Deployed Earth Radiation Budget Satellite; included first American female EVA and first American woman to fly twice Retired May 1989 Mark Lee (1952) USA Selected 1984 (NASA Group 10) STS-30, 4 - 8 May 1989 (4d 0h 56m) - Deployed Magellan Venus Radar Mapper (reached target planet August 1990) STS-47, 12 - 20 September 1992 (7d 22h 30m) - Carried Japanese-financed Spacelab-J STS-64, 9 - 20 September 1994 (10d 22h 49m) - Carried LIDAR In-Space Technology Experiment, using laser pulses instead of radio waves to study the atmosphere STS-82, 11 - 21 February 1997 (9d 23h 37m) - Second Hubble servicing mission; installed new instruments and made various upgrades Total flight time 32d 21h 52m Retired July 2001 Previously married to astronaut Nancy Jan Davis Sarah Brightman (1960) United Kingdom Classical singer, actress, songwriter and dancer Selected 2012 Due to fly as Spaceflight Participant on Soyuz TMA-18M but pulled out for undisclosed reasons Retired May 2015 Tracy Caldwell-Dyson (1969) USA Selected 1998 (NASA Group 17) STS-118, 8 - 21 August 2007 (12d 17h 55m) Soyuz TMA-18/ISS Expeditions 23/24, 2 April - 25 September 2010 (176d 1h 18m) Total flight time to date 188d 19h 13m Still on active status Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 15, 2018 Author Share Posted August 15, 2018 August 15th Valentin Varlamov (1934) USSR Selected 1960 Retired for medical reasons March 1961 (possibly connected to a spinal injury) Died 2 October 1980 Viktor Pisarev (1941) USSR Selected 1967 Retired for medical reasons May 1968; no flights Sonny Carter (1947) USA Selected 1984 (NASA Group 10) STS-33, 23 - 28 November 1989 (5d 0h 6m) - Classified DoD mission; deployed 'Big Ear' reconnaissance satellite Died in commercial airliner crash 5 April 1991 Ricardo Peralta y Fabi (1950) Mexico Selected 1985 Backup for STS-61B Retired December 1985 as a result of injuries sustained in an ultralight crash; no flights Died 2017 (date unknown) Scott Altman (1959) USA Selected 1994 (NASA Group 15) STS-90, 17 April - 3 May 1998 (15d 21h 50m) - Carried Neurolab (final Spacelab mission) STS-106, 8 - 20 September 2000 (11d 19h 10m) - Delivered equipment and supplies to the vacant ISS ready for the arrival of the Expedition 1 crew STS-109, 1 - 12 March 2002 (10d 22h 10m) - Fourth Hubble Servicing Mission (known as HSM-3B); carried out repairs and installation of new instruments STS-125, 11 - 24 May 2009 (12d 21h 37m) - Fifth and final Hubble Servicing Mission (HSM-4); replaced batteries and carried out further maintenance tasks Total flight time 51d 12h 47m Retired September 2010 Information from Spacefacts website and Wikipedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 16, 2018 Author Share Posted August 16, 2018 August 16th Stuart Roosa (1933) USA Selected 1966 (NASA Group 5) Apollo 14, 31 January - 9 February 1971 (9d 0h 1m) - CMP on third lunar landing Retired February 1976 Died from complications of pancreatitis 12 December 1994 Oleg G. Kononenko (1938) USSR Selected 1977 Trained for Buran flights but programme cancelled Died 8 September 1980 in crash of Yak-38A VTOL aircraft in the South China Sea Not to be confused with cosmonaut Oleg D. Kononenko Valeri Ryumin (1939) USSR Selected 1973 Soyuz 25, 9 - 11 October 1977 (2d 0h 44m) - Planned to be Salyut 6 Expedition 1 but failed to achieve hard dock so mission abandoned Soyuz 32/Salyut 6 Expedition 3, 25 February - 19 August 1979 (175d 0h 35m) - Landed aboard Soyuz 34 Soyuz 35/Salyut 6 Expedition 4, 9 April - 11 October 1980 (184d 20h 11m) - Landed aboard Soyuz 37. Originally backup but replaced Lebedev who injured his knee STS-91, 2 - 12 June 1998 (9d 19h 54m) - Ninth and last Shuttle-Mir docking; crew return (Thomas down) Total flight time 371d 17h 24m Retired 1998 Married to cosmonaut Yelena Kondakova Jeffrey Wisoff (1958) USA Selected 1990 (NASA Group 13) STS-57, 21 June - 1 July 1993 (9d 23h 44m) - Retrieved EURECA experiment platform (deployed by STS-46 in August 1992) STS-68, 30 September - 11 October 1994 (11d 5h 46m) - Carried Space Radar Laboratory SRL-2 creating radar images of the Earth's surface STS-81, 12 - 22 January 1997 (10d 4h 55m) - Fifth Shuttle-Mir docking; crew exchange (Linenger up; Blaha down) STS-92, 11 - 24 October 2000 (12d 21h 42m) - Delivered Z1 Truss, Pressurised Mating Adapter and other equipment to the ISS ready for the arrival of Expedition 1 Total flight time 44d 8h 7m Retired September 2001 When STS-92 landed it was the last time to date that no astronauts remained in orbit Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 17, 2018 Author Share Posted August 17, 2018 August 17th Yevgeni Ilyin (1937) USSR Selected 1965 Candidate for Voskhod 2 but not selected Retired 1966; no flights Thomas Hennen (1952) USA Selected 1988 - trained analyst for TERRA SCOUT Earth observation studies STS-44, 24 November - 1 December 1991 (6d 22h 50m) - DoD mission; deployed observation satellite and examined specially prepared grid patterns on Earth Retired December 1991 Kathryn Thornton (1952) USA Selected 1984 (NASA Group 10) STS-33, 23 - 28 November 1989 (5d 0h 6m) - Classified DoD mission; deployed 'Big Ear' reconnaissance satellite STS-49, 8 - 16 May 1992 (8d 21h 17m) - Retrieved, repaired and redeployed Intelsat VI satellite, stranded in the wrong orbit. Maiden flight of Endeavour STS-61, 2 - 13 December 1993 (10d 19h 58m) - First Hubble Servicing Mission - restored planned scientific capability and carried out further upgrades STS-73, 20 October - 5 November 1995 (15d 21h 52m) - Carried US Microgravity Laboratory USML-2 Total flight time 40d 15h 13m Retired August 1996 Robert Thirsk (1953) Canada Selected 1983 STS-78, 20 June - 7 July 1996 (16d 21h 47m) - Carried Spacelab Life and Microgravity Sciences (LMS) Soyuz TMA-15/ISS Expeditions 20/21, 27 May - 1 December 2009 (187d 20h 41m) Total flight time 204d 18h 28m Retired August 2012 Oleg Blinov (1978) Russia Selected 2012 Chief engineer for Russian EVA operations Retired June 2016; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 18, 2018 Author Share Posted August 18, 2018 August 18th Pete Aldridge (1938) Selected 1985 Assigned to STS-62A (first launch out of Vandenberg) as DoD Observer but mission cancelled following the Challenger accident Retired 1986; no flights Valeri Romanov (1946) USSR Selected 1978 Trained to fly the TKS supply craft but programme cancelled Retired 1987; no flights Died 18 September 2014 Umberto Guidoni (1954) Italy Selected 1989 STS-75, 22 February - 9 March 1996 (15d 17h 40m) - US Microgravity Payload (USMP-3) and Italian Tethered Satellite experiment - tether snapped; satellite lost STS-100, 18 April - 1 May 2001 (11d 21h 30m) - Delivered Canadarm manipulator and other equipment to the ISS Total flight time 27d 15h 10m Retired June 2004 Sergei Treshchyov (1958) Russia Selected 1992 STS-111/ISS Expedition 5, 5 June - 7 December 2002 (184d 22h 14m) - Landed aboard STS-113 Retired November 2006 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 19, 2018 Author Share Posted August 19, 2018 August 19th Vladimir Alekseyev (1933) USSR Selected 1967 Retired April 1983; no flights Died 1 March 2013 Story Musgrave (1935) USA Selected 1967 (NASA Group 6) STS-6, 4 - 9 April 1983 (5d 0h 23m) - Deployed TDRS-A communications satellite. Maiden flight of Challenger STS-51F, 29 July - 6 August 1985 (7d 22h 45m) - Carried Spacelab 2 STS-33, 23 - 28 November 1989 (5d 0h 6m) - Classified DoD mission. Deployed Magnum 2 "Big Ear" reconnaissance satellite STS-44, 24 November - 1 December 1991 (6d 22h 50m) - Classified DoD mission. Deployed satellite designed to detect nuclear detonations and missile launches STS-61, 2 - 13 December 1993 (10d 19h 58m) - First Hubble Servicing Mission - restored planned scientific capability and carried out further upgrades STS-80, 19 November - 7 December 1996 (17d 15h 53m) - Deployed and retrieved ORFEUS-SPAS II and Wake Shield Facility WSF-3 research satellites Total flight time 53d 9h 55m Retired September 1997 Musgrave is the only astronaut to have flown aboard all five Orbiters Charles Bolden (1946) USA Selected 1980 (NASA Group 9) STS-61C, 12 - 18 January 1986 (6d 2h 3m) - Deployed Satcom K-1 communications satellite. Last flight before the Challenger accident STS-31, 24 - 29 April 1990 (5d 1h 9m) - Deployed the Hubble Space Telescope STS-45, 24 March - 2 April 1992 (8d 22h 9m) - Carried the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-01) Spacelab STS-60, 3 - 11 February 1994 (8d 7h 9m) - Deployed and retrieved the Wake Shield Facility satellite. First Shuttle mission to include a Russian crewman Total flight time 28d 8h 37m Retired June 1994 NASA Administrator 2009 - 2017 Mike Massimino (1962) USA Selected 1996 (NASA Group 16) STS-109, 1 - 12 March 2002 (10d 22h 10m) - Fourth Hubble Servicing Mission (HST-SM-3B). Last successful flight of Columbia STS-125, 11 - 24 May 2009 (12d 21h 37m) - Fifth Hubble Servicing Mission (HST-SM-4) Retired March 2012 Has appeared as himself on several episodes of television sitcom The Big Bang Theory Sergei Ryzhikov (1974) Russia Selected 2006 Soyuz MS-02/ISS Expeditions 49/50, 19 October 2016 - 10 April 2017 (173d 3h 15m) Still on active status Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 20, 2018 Author Share Posted August 20, 2018 August 20th Jean-Loup Chrétien (1938) France Selected 1980 Soyuz T-6/Salyut 7 Visiting Flight 1, 24 June - 2 July 1982 (7d 21h 50m) Soyuz TM-7/Mir Expedition 4, 26 November - 21 December 1988 (24d 18h 7m) - Landed aboard Soyuz TM-6 STS-86, 26 September - 6 October 1997 (10d 19h 20m) - Seventh Shuttle-Mir Mission; also crew exchange (Wolf up; Foale down) Total flight time 43d 11h 17m Retired July 2001 Grant Aufderhaar (1948) USA Selected 1985 Candidate for a military meteorological flight but mission cancelled following the Challenger accident Retired 1986; no flights Svetlana Omelchenko (1951) USSR Selected 1990 Candidate for a journalist-in-space mission but not selected Retired February 1992; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 21, 2018 Author Share Posted August 21, 2018 August 21st No astronaut birthdays today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 22, 2018 Author Share Posted August 22, 2018 August 22nd Gerald Carr (1932) USA Selected 1966 (NASA Group 5) Skylab 4 (Expedition 3), 16 November 1973 - 8 February 1974 (84d 1h 15m) Retired June 1977 Svyatoslav Morosov (1985) Russia Selected 2010 Retired November 2012; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 23, 2018 Author Share Posted August 23, 2018 August 23rd Robert Clegg (1946) USA Selected 1990 Candidate for US Army TERRA GEODE; mission cancelled Retired 1991; no flights Klaus-Dietrich Flade (1952) Germany Selected 1990 Soyuz TM-14/Mir Visiting Flight 7, 17 - 25 March 1992 (7d 21h 56m) - Landed aboard Soyuz TM-13 Retired March 1992 David Wolf (1956) USA Selected 1990 (NASA Group 13) STS-58, 18 October - 1 November 1993 (14d 0h 12m) - Spacelab Life Sciences SLS-2 STS-86/Mir Expedition 24, 26 September 1997 - 31 January 1998 (127d 20h 0m) - Landed aboard STS-89 STS-112, 7 - 18 October 2002 (10d 19h 58m) - Delivered the S1 Truss and other equipment and supplies to the ISS STS-127, 15 - 31 July 2009 (15d 16h 45m) - Delivered the Japanese Kibo Exposed Facility (unpressurised 'porch' extension to the Kibo module) to the ISS Total flight time 168d 8h 55m Retiral date unknown Dominic Antonelli (1967) USA Selected 2000 (NASA Group 18) STS-119, 15 - 28 March 2009 (12d 19h 29m) - Delivered S6 Truss and the fourth set of solar arrays to the ISS; partial crew exchange (Wakata up; Magnus down) STS-132, 14 - 26 May 2010 (11d 18h 28m) - Delivered the Russian Rassvet module to the ISS Total flight time 24d 13h 57m Retired July 2015 Sergei Kud-Sverchkov (1983) 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 August 24, 2018 Author Share Posted August 24, 2018 August 24th Greg Jarvis (1944) USA Selected 1984 (Engineer with Hughes) STS-51L, 28 January 1986 - Killed when spacecraft exploded 73 seconds after launch. Not classed as a space flight as vehicle did not exceed 100km altitude Dick Richards (1946) USA Selected 1980 (NASA Group 9) STS-28, 8 - 13 August 1989 (5d 1h 0m) - Classified DoD mission; deployed two military satellites. First flight of the human skull for radiation research STS-41, 6 - 10 October 1990 (4d 2h 10m) - Deployed the Ulysses Solar Polar probe STS-50, 25 June - 9 July 1992 (13d 19h 30m) - Carried United States Microgravity Lab USML-1 STS-64, 9 - 20 September 1994 (10d 22h 49m) - Carried LIDAR In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE) studying the atmosphere with laser pulses Total flight time 33d 21h 29m Retired April 1995 Anna Fisher (1949) USA Selected 1978 (NASA Group 8 ) STS-51A, 8 - 16 November 1984 (7d 23h 44m) - Deployed two comsats and retrieved two more which had failed to reach operational orbit from a previous flight Retired June 2006 Previously married to astronaut Bill Fisher Steven Lindsey (1960) USA Selected 1994 (NASA Group 15) STS-87, 19 November - 5 December 1997 (15d 16h 34m) - Carried United States Microgravity Payload (Spacelab USMP-4) STS-95, 29 October - 7 November 1998 (8d 21h 44m) - Deployed and retrieved SPARTAN free-flyer and carried SPACEHAB; John Glenn was among the crew STS-104, 12 - 25 July 2001 (12d 18h 35m) - Delivered the Quest Joint Airlock and other equipment and supplies to the ISS STS-121, 4 - 17 July 2006 (12d 18h 36m) - Delivered supplies to the ISS and tested safety techniques introduced after the Columbia accident STS-133, 24 February - 9 March 2011 (12d 19h 4m) - Delivered the Leonardo Module to the ISS (left permanently in place). 39th and final flight of Discovery Total flight time 62d 22h 33m Retired July 2011 Franz Viehböck (1960) Austria Selected 1989 Soyuz TM-13/Mir Visiting Flight 6, 2 - 10 October 1991 (7d 22h 12m) - Landed aboard Soyuz TM-12 Retired October 1991 Mary Ellen Weber (1962) USA Selected 1992 (NASA Group 14) STS-70, 13 - 22 July 1995 (8d 22h 20m) - Deployed TDRS-G communications satellite STS-101, 19 - 29 May 2000 (9d 20h 9m) - Delivered equipment and supplies to the vacant ISS Total flight time 18d 18h 29m Retired December 2002 Shalizhan Sharipov (1964) USSR Selected 1990 STS-89, 23 - 31 January 1998 (8d 19h 47m) - Eighth Shuttle-Mir Mission; crew exchange (Thomas up, Wolf down) Soyuz TMA-5/ISS Expedition 10, 14 October 2004 - 24 April 2005 (192d 19h 2m) Total flight time 201d 14h 49m Retired July 2008 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 25, 2018 Author Share Posted August 25, 2018 August 25th Anatoli Kartashov (1932) USSR Selected 1960 Retired for medical reasons April 1961; no flights Died 11 December 2005 Lee Archambault (1960) USA Selected 1998 (NASA Group 17) STS-117, 8 - 22 June 2007 (13d 20h 11m) - Delivered S3/S4 Truss and a set of solar arrays to the ISS; partial crew exchange (Anderson up; Williams down) STS-119, 15 - 28 March 2009 (12d 19h 29m) - Delivered S6 Truss and the fourth set of solar arrays to the ISS; partial crew exchange (Wakata up; Magnus down) Total flight time 26d 15h 40m Retired February 2012 Andrew Feustel (1965) USA Selected 2000 (NASA Group 18) STS-125, 11 - 24 May 2009 (12d 21h 37m) - Fifth Hubble Servicing Mission (HST-SM-4) STS-134, 16 May - 1 June 2011 (15d 17h 38m) - Delivered Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) to the ISS. 25th and final flight of Endeavour Soyuz MS-08/ISS Expeditions 55/56, launched 21 March 2018 (Currently on orbit: Flight time to date ~157d. Landing currently scheduled for 4 October) Total flight time to date ~185d Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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