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This is a list of cosmonauts who have taken part in the missions of the Soviet space program and the Russian Federal Space Agency, including ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities. Soviet and Russian cosmonauts born outside Russia are marked with an asterisk and their place of birth is shown in an additional list .
Apollo astronauts by their dates of selection by NASA 1959 Mercury Seven astronauts (L to R): Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Grissom, Schirra, Shepard, and Slayton. Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom began his career at NASA in 1959. In 1966, he was selected as Command Pilot for the first crewed Apollo mission, a low Earth orbit test.
1978 →. NASA Astronaut Group 7 was a group of seven astronauts accepted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on August 14, 1969. It was the last group to be selected during the Project Apollo era, and the first since the Mercury Seven in which all members were active-duty military personnel, and all made flights into space.
List of astronauts by year of selection. Retrieved from " ". This page was last edited on 7 July 2010, at 03:46 (UTC).
Jan 13, 2023 · The 35 astronauts selected in the Class of 1978 in the Teague Auditorium of NASA’s Johnson Space Center during their introduction to the media. The first women selected by NASA as astronauts in the Class of 1978: M. Rhea Seddon, left, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Sally K. Ride, Anna L. Fisher, and Shannon M. Lucid.
Stuart A. Roosa. Edgar D. Mitchell. 31 January 1971. Apollo 14. Moon. 9 February 1971. Apollo 14. Third lunar landing. Shepard becomes only Mercury astronaut to walk on the Moon and hits a golf ball on the Moon's surface.
NASA assigned 32 American astronauts to the Apollo lunar landing program, and 24, flying on nine missions between December 1968 and December 1972, orbited the Moon. During six two-man landing missions twelve astronauts walked on the lunar surface, and six of those drove Lunar Roving Vehicles. Three flew to the Moon twice, one orbiting both ...
