- Peggy Whitson
Peggy Annette Whitson (born 9 February 1960) is an American biochemistry researcher and a NASA astronaut. Her experience with NASA includes an extended stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as a member of Expedition 5, and she is scheduled to be commander of ISS Expedition 16. She will be the first woman to command an ISS Expedition. In addition, if the STS-120 mission, which will be commanded by female astronaut Pam Melroy, launches on schedule, …
- Thomas Reiter
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.
- Sunita Williams
Sunita Lyn "Suni" Williams (born September 19 1965 in Euclid, Ohio) is a United States Naval officer and a NASA astronaut. She was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and then joined Expedition 15. Williams is the second woman of Indian heritage to have been selected by NASA for a space mission after Kalpana Chawla and the second astronaut of Slovenian heritage after Ronald M. Sega.
- Yuri Malenchenko
Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (born December 22, 1961 in Svitlovodsk, Kirovohrad Oblast of Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He flew on the following missions: #Soyuz TM-19 Commander 04.11.1994 - 125d 22h 53m #STS-106 Mission Specialist 20.09.2000 - 11d 19h 12m #Soyuz TMA-2 / ISS Expedition 7 Commander 28.10.2003 - 184d 22h 46m He became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August, 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, …
- Garrett Reisman
Garrett Erin Reisman (born February 10, 1968 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. He was a backup crew member for Expedition 15 and is currently scheduled to be a prime crew member for Expedition 16. Reisman is a 1986 graduate of Parsippany High School. Currently, Reisman is assigned asa a long duration crewmember on the International Space Station.
- Michael Lopez-Alegria
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.
- Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African entrepreneur who was the second self-funded space tourist and first African national in space. He is now best known for his leadership of the Ubuntu Linux distribution. He currently lives in London and holds dual citizenship of South Africa and the United Kingdom
- Hans Schlegel
Hans Wilhelm Schlegel (born 3 August 1951) is a German physicst, an ESA astronaut, and a veteran of one NASA Space Shuttle mission. Schlegel, born and raised in Germany, graduated as an international exchange student from Lewis Central High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa before studying physics at the University of Aachen in his home country. He conducted research in semiconductor physics before being trained as an astronaut in the late 1980s.
- Leroy Chiao
Dr. Leroy Chiao, Ph.D. (born August 28, 1960) is a former American NASA astronaut who was stationed on board the International Space Station between 2004 and 2005.
- Clayton Anderson
Clayton Conrad Anderson (born February 23, 1959 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. Launched on STS-117, he replaced Sunita Williams on June 10, 2007 as a member of the ISS Expedition 15 crew
- Lisa Nowak
Lisa Marie Nowak (née Caputo, is a United States Naval officer and a former NASA astronaut. She was selected by NASA in 1996 and qualified as a mission specialist in robotics. Nowak flew aboard the Space Shuttle during mission STS-121 in July 2006. She was responsible for operating the robotic arms of the shuttle and the International Space Station. On February 5, 2007, Nowak was arrested in Orlando, Florida, …
- Michael Foale
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, …
- Akihiko Hoshide
Akihiko Hoshide is a Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut. He was born in 1968 in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan and received a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Keio University in 1992, and a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering in 1997. He joined the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) in 1992 and worked in the development of the H-II launch vehicle for two years.
- Gregory Chamitoff
Gregory Errol Chamitoff is a NASA astronaut. He has been assigned to Expedition 18 and Expedition 19 and is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on STS-127.
- Ed Lu
Edward Tsang Lu (born July 1 1963) is an American physicist and astronaut, a veteran of two space shuttle missions and an extended stay aboard the International Space Station. Raised in Webster, New York, Lu attended R. L. Thomas High School, where he was a member of the wrestling team and graduated in 1980. Later, Lu earned a degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University and a doctoral degree in applied physics from Stanford University in 1989.
- Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor
Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Al Masrie bin Sheikh Mustapha (born July 27, 1972) is one of two final candidates vying to become the first Angkasawan (Malaysian astronaut) to go into space when he is launched to the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-11 in October 2007.
- Pamela Melroy
Colonel Pamela Anne Melroy (born 17 September 1961) is an American astronaut and veteran pilot of two space shuttle missions. Melroy received a bachelor's degree in physics and astronomy from Wellesley College in 1983 while also earning her commission in the United States Air Force through the ROTC program. She then earned a master's degree in earth and planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984.
- Shannon Lucid
Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid (born January 14, 1943) is an American astronaut who previously held the record for the longest duration stay in space by a woman. She has flown in space five times including a prolonged mission aboard the Mir space station. Lucid was born in Shanghai, China, to Baptist missionary parents Oscar and Myrtle Wells, but grew up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
- Takao Doi
Takao Doi is a Japanese astronaut and a veteran of one NASA space shuttle mission. Doi holds a doctorate from the University of Tokyo in aerospace engineering, and has studied and published in the fields of propulsion systems, and microgravity technology. He worked for the NASDA and on the Japanese manned space program while also conducting research in the United States at NASA's Lewis Research Center and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
- Stephen Frick
Stephen Nathaniel Frick (born 30 September 1964) is an American astronaut and a veteran of one space shuttle mission. Raised in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Frick earned a degree in aerospace engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 1986, was commissioned as a Navy officer, and trained as a F/A-18 fighter pilot.
- James Oberg
James Edward Oberg (b. 1944) (often known as Jim Oberg) is an American space journalist and historian, regarded as an expert on the Russian space program. After service in the US Air Force, he joined NASA in 1975, where he worked until 1997 at Johnson Space Center on the Space Shuttle program. He worked in the Mission Control Center for several Space Shuttle missions from STS-1 on, specialising in orbital rendezvous techniques.
- Jeffrey Williams
Jeffrey Nels Williams (born 18 January 1958) is an American astronaut and veteran of two space flights. Williams was raised in Winter, Wisconsin and earned an engineering degree from the U.S. Military Academy, receiving his commission in the United States Army. Williams served with the army at Johnson Space Center from 1987 to 1992 before training as a test pilot.
- Nikolai Budarin
Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin is a Russian cosmonaut, a veteran of three extended space missions aboard the Mir Space Station and the International Space Station. Named a cosmonaut candidate in 1989, Budarin's first space mission was a long-term assignment aboard the space station Mir in 1995. Since then, he again made extended stays on Mir in 1998 and the International Space Station Expedition 6 in 2002 and 2003.
- Roberto Vittori
Roberto Vittori (Viterbo, October 15, 1964) is an ESA astronaut from Italy. He graduated from the Italian Air Force Academy in 1989 and trained in the US. He flew the Tornado in the Italian Air Force before graduating in 1995 from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland. He served at the Italian Test Center as a project pilot for the development of the new European aircraft, the EF2000.
- Pedro Duque
Pedro Francisco Duque is a Spanish astronaut and a veteran of two space missions. Duque earned a degree in aeronautical engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in 1986. He worked for the European Space Agency (ESA) for six years before being selected as an astronaut candidate in 1992. Duque underwent training in both Russia and the United States. His first spaceflight was as a mission specialist aboard space shuttle mission STS-95, …
- Ken Bowersox
Kenneth Duane "Sox" Bowersox (born 14 November 1956) was an American astronaut, a veteran of four Space Shuttle missions and an extended stay aboard the International Space Station. Raised in Bedford, Indiana, Bowersox is an Eagle Scout. Bowersox attended the United States Naval Academy and earned a degree in aerospace engineering before receiving his commission in 1978. He served as a test pilot on A-7E and F/A-18 aircraft, …
- Michael Fincke
Lt. Col. Edward Michael "Mike" Fincke, USAF (born March 14 1967 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American astronaut, who spent April to October, 2004, on board the International Space Station as flight engineer. He is scheduled to be the Commander of ISS Expedition 18, launching on a Soyuz spacecraft in October 2008. Fincke is conversant in Japanese and Russian.
- André Kuipers
Dr André Kuipers, MD is the second Dutch citizen to fly in space and the first to fly on a Russian spacecraft. The previous Dutch space traveler was Wubbo Ockels. Using the Soyuz spacecraft Soyuz TMA-4, Gennady Padalka from Russia, Michael Fincke from the USA and Kuipers flew to the International Space Station. Kuipers returned to earth 9 days later together with the ISS Expedition 8 crew in Soyuz TMA-3.
- Vladimir Dezhurov
Vladimir Nikolayevich Dezhurov was born on July 30, 1962 in the settlement of Yavas, Zubovo-Polyansky District, Mordovia, Russia. He attended and graduated from the S.I. Gritsevits Kharkov Higher Military Aviation School in 1983 with a pilot engineer’s diploma. After graduating, he served as a pilot and senior pilot in the Air Force. In 1987, he was assigned to the Cosmonaut Training Center. From December 1987 to June 1989, he underwent a course of general space training.
- Daniel Goldin
Daniel S. Goldin (1940- ) initiated a revolution to transform America's aeronautics and space program. To date, he is NASA's longest serving Administrator. Before coming to NASA, Goldin was vice president and general manager of the TRW Space and Technology Group in Redondo Beach, California.
- David Wolf
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.
- Sergei Treschev
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.
- Koichi Wakata
Koichi Wakata is a Japanese astronaut from JAXA and a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions. Wakata, born in Omiya, Saitama, earned a masters degree in applied mathematics from Kyushu University in 1989. He worked as a structural engineer for Japan Airlines. Wakata was selected as an astronaut candidate in 1992 and trained at NASA's Johnson Space Center; he flew aboard STS-72 in 1996 and STS-92 as a mission specialist.
- Donald Pettit
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.
- Daisuke Enomoto
Daisuke Enomoto ("Enomoto Daisuke", born April 22, 1971, nicknamed "Dice-K") is a Japanese businessman and former livedoor executive who hoped to become the fourth space tourist. He had trained at Star City, Moscow in Russia to fly with two members of Expedition 14 on board Soyuz TMA-9, which was launched on September 18, 2006.
- Umberto Guidoni
Umberto Guidoni (born in Rome, 18 August 1954) is an European astronaut of Italian nationality. He is a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions. Guidoni earned a doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1978 and worked in the Italian Space Agency (ASI) as well as in the European Space Agency (ESA). One of his research projects was the Tethered Satellite System, which was part of the payload of the STS-46 mission.
- Franklin Chang-Diaz
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.
- William Shepherd
William McMichael Shepherd (born July 26 1949) is a former American astronaut who served as commander of Expedition 1, the first crew on the International Space Station. Shepherd is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
- Yuri Onufrienko
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, …
- Paul Lockhart
Paul S. "Paco" Lockhart, Colonel U.S.Air Force, (born 28 April 1956) is a former American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions. Lockhart, born and raised in Amarillo, Texas, earned degrees in mathematics and aerospace engineering from Texas Tech University and the University of Texas at Austin before being commissioned into the United States Air Force in 1981. A test pilot for the F-16 aircraft, Lockhart was selected as an astronaut candidate in 1996.