Thomas Arthur Reiter (born May 23 1958 in Frankfurt, Germany) is an astronaut with the European Space Agency and is a colonel ("Oberst") in the Luftwaffe. As of 2006, he was one of the top 50 astronauts in terms of total time in space. He lives in Rastede (near Oldenburg) in Lower Saxony. In 1982, Reiter received his diploma in astronautics from the University of the German Federal Armed Forces in Munich. He completed his training as a pilot in Germany and Texas.

Major General Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930) is a former American astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew in space twice. His first spaceflight was "Gemini 10", when he and command pilot John W. Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins undertook two EVAs. His second spaceflight was "Apollo 11" where he served as the command module pilot.

Eugene Andrew Cernan (born March 14, 1934) is a former American astronaut of Czech and Slovak ancestry. He has been into space three times: as co-pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966; as lunar module pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969; and as commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972. In that final lunar landing mission, Cernan became "the last man on the moon" since he was the last to re-enter the Apollo Lunar Module during its third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA).

Colin Michael 'Mike' Foale, CBE, PhD, (born 6 January 1957) is an Anglo-American astrophysicist and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six space shuttle missions and extended stays on both Mir and the International Space Station. He was the first Briton to perform a space walk, and holds the record for most time spent in space by a UK and US citizen: 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes. Born in Louth and raised in Cambridge, Foale was educated at The King's School, …

Miguel Eladio "LA" López-Alegría is an American astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission. Miguel López-Alegría, born in Madrid (Spain) and raised in Mission Viejo, California, joined the United States Navy and earned engineering degrees in 1980 and 1988 from the Naval Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School.

Edward Higgins White, II (Lt.Col, USAF) (November 14, 1930 - January 27, 1967) was a United States Air Force officer and a NASA astronaut. On June 3 1965, he became the first American to conduct a spacewalk. White was killed during the Apollo 1 training accident and posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and the Purple Heart Medal.

Robert Lee Curbeam, Jr. (b. March 5, 1962) is an American astronaut and Captain in the United States Navy. Curbeam graduated from Woodlawn High School, Baltimore County, Maryland in 1980. He earned a bachelor of science degree in aerospace engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 1984 and a master of science degree in aeronautical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1990.

Franklin Chang-Diaz is both an astronaut and the director of the Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory at NASA Johnson Space Center. Logging seven shuttle missions from 1986 to 2002, Chang-Diaz is tied with astronaut Jerry Lynn Ross for the honor of most missions flown by any astronaut in the world. Chang-Diaz has performed three space walks, visited two different space stations (Mir and the International Space Station), and helped deploy the Galileo spacecraft.

Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (born August 8, 1948, in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet female aviator and cosmonaut who flew the Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova. She is the daughter of a Soviet military commander Yevgeniy Savitskiy. While on the Salyut 7 space station on July 25, 1984, cosmonaut Savitskaya became the first woman ever to perform a space walk.

David Alexander Wolf (born 23 August 1956) is an American astronaut and a veteran of four space shuttle missions and an extended stay aboard the Mir space station. Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he graduated from North Central High School, Wolf earned a degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University and, in 1982, a medical degree from Indiana University. He subsequently trained as a flight surgeon with the United States Air Force.

General Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov, Soviet Air Force (Ret.) (born May 30, 1934 in Listvyanka, USSR) is a retired Soviet/Russian cosmonaut who, on March 18, 1965 became the first person to walk in space.

Col. Yuri Ivanovich Onufriyenko is a Soviet/Russian cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He is a veteran of two extended spaceflights, aboard the space station Mir in 1996 and aboard the International Space Station in 2001-2002. Born in Ryasne, Zolochiv Raion of Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. Graduated from the V.M. Komarov Eisk Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots in 1982 with a pilot-engineer's diploma and served as a pilot in the Soviet (later Russian) Air Force, …

Sergei Yevgenyevich Treschev was a cosmonaut of the RSC Energia. He was born in Volynsky District, in the Lipetsk Region of Russia, and graduated from the Moscow Energy Institute in 1982. From 1982 to 1984, Treschev served as a group leader in an Air force regiment. He worked as a foreman and as an engineer at the RSC ENERGIA from 1984 to 1986.

Susan Jane Helms (born 1958) is a United States Air Force Brigadier General and a former NASA astronaut. She was a crew member on four Space Shuttle missions and was a resident of the International Space Station (ISS) for over five months in 2001. While participating in ISS Expedition 2 she and Jim Voss conducted the longest duration spacewalk to date.

Thomas Dale Akers is a former astronaut in the United States Space Shuttle program. He graduated from the University of Missouri–Rolla with B.S. and M.S. degrees in Applied Mathematics in 1973 and 1975, respectively. In 1979, he entered the Air Force, and was selected for the astronaut program in 1987. Akers is a veteran of four shuttle flights in which he spent over 800 hours in orbit, including more than 29 hours of extra-vehicular activity (EVA) experience.

Jean-Pierre Haigneré is a French Air Force officer and a CNES astronaut. Haigneré was born in Paris, France and joined the French Air Force, where he trained as a test pilot. He flew on two missions to the Mir space station in 1993 and 1999. The Mir Altair long-duration mission (186 days) in 1993 also included an EVA. He is married to former French astronaut Claudie Haigneré. The asteroid 135268 Haigneré is named in their combined honour.

Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev is a former Russian pilot, cosmonaut, and Colonel. Solovyev holds the world record on the number of spacewalks performed (16), and accumulated time spent spacewalking (over 77 hours).

Bernard Anthony Harris, Jr. M.D. (born June 26, 1956 in Temple, Texas) is a former NASA astronaut. On February 9, 1995, Harris became the first African American to perform an extra-vehicular activity (spacewalk), during the second of his two Space Shuttle flights.

Donald Roy Pettit (born 20 April 1955) is an American astronaut, a veteran of a six month stay aboard the International Space Station. Pettit, raised in Silverton, Oregon, earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Oregon State University in 1978 and a doctoral degree from the University of Arizona in 1983. Pettit worked as a scientist as the Los Alamos National Laboratory until 1996, when he was selected as an astronaut candidate.

Tamara Elizabeth "Tammy" Jernigan, Ph.D. (born May 7, 1959, in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an American scientist and former NASA astronaut. She flew on five Space Shuttle program missions (three on "Columbia" and one each on "Endeavour" and "Discovery") and logged 1512 hours in space. In her last mission on "Discovery" in 1999, she performed an extra-vehicular activity for about eight hours.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dzhanibekov (Russian: Владимир Александрович Джанибеков; born May 13, 1942) was a cosmonaut who made five flights. He was born in the remote area of Iskandar in the Tashkent region, Uzbekistan. He changed his surname from Krysin when he married to honor his wife's family belonged to a noble kin of the descendants of the medieval Uzbek khan Dzhanibek. His family moved to Tashkent soon after his birth.

Alexander Fedorovich Poleschuk. From September 1989 to January 1991 he underwent the complete course of general space training and was qualified as a test cosmonaut, and then till March 1992 he undertook advanced training for the Soyuz-TM transport vehicle and Mir station flight. In 1992 he was selected as the backup flight engineer of the Soyuz TM-15 joint Russian-French mission, and consequently nominated as the flight engineer of the prime crew of Soyuz TM-16.

Cynthia Myers (born September 12 1950, in Toledo, Ohio) is an American model and actress, and "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the December 1968 issue. Cynthia's centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar, and quickly became a favorite of American troops in Vietnam. The centerfold appears in the 1987 film "Hamburger Hill". The centerfold is famous for Myer's very large and perky breasts.

Yevgeniy Yakovlevich Savitzky was a World War II fighter ace, 22 individual and 2 group victories, commander of the Airforce Corps, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal of Aviation. His daughter, Svetlana Savitskaya became Soviet cosmonaut who flew the Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova and the first woman ever to perform a space walk..

Stanley David Griggs (September 7, 1939 - June 17, 1989) was a NASA astronaut credited with conducting the first unscheduled extra-vehicular activity of the space program. He was killed when the vintage World War II training aircraft he was piloting crashed near Earle, Arkansas.

Leslie Bianchini was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its January 1969 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli. Following graduation from high school in Woodside, California, Leslie tried her hand as a business major at Foothill College, worked as a salesgirl at Saks and then “loafed for a while” before becoming the Door Bunny at her favorite city’s hutch. Leslie has two brothers and three sisters.

Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan, Ph.D. (born October 3, 1951 in Paterson, New Jersey) became the first American woman to walk in space when she performed an EVA during Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-G on 1984 October 11. She flew on three space shuttle missions and logged 532 hours in space. Sullivan holds a Ph.D. in oceanography from Dalhousie University. In addition to a 13-year career as an astronaut with NASA, …