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An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek ἄστρον ( astron ), meaning 'star', and ναύτης ( nautes ), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft.
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This is a list of the human spaceflight missions conducted by the Soviet space program. These missions belong to the Vostok , Voskhod , and Soyuz space programs. The first patch from the Soviet Space Program was worn by Valentina Tereshkova , [1] then the same patch for the Voskhod 2 , Soyuz 4 / 5 and Soyuz 11 , [2] Soyuz 3 had an official ...
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 ...
Daniel Thomas Barry (born December 30, 1953) [1] is an American engineer, scientist, television personality, and a retired NASA astronaut. He was a contestant on the CBS reality television program Survivor: Panama, as well as on BattleBots on ABC. [2] He was at Singularity University from 2009 to 2012, where he was co-chair of the Faculty of ...
NASA Astronaut Group 3—"The Fourteen"—was a group of fourteen astronauts selected by NASA for the Gemini and Apollo program. Their selection was announced in October 1963. Seven were from the United States Air Force, four from the United States Navy, one was from the United States Marine Corps and two were civilians. Four died in training ...
The following is a list of German astronauts who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight. As of 2024, twelve Germans have been in space. The first German, and only East German , in space was Sigmund Jähn in 1978.
