Wayne Hale

male
Rice University, kennedy space center, NASA, space shuttle, purdue university, JohnsonSpaceCenter
Wayne Hale is a NASA engineer. A former flight director, he now serves as head of the space shuttle program. Born on July 5, 1954 in Clovis, New...
Peggy Whitson

Peggy Whitson

female, 49 years old
astronaut, Pam Melroy, from Iowa, NASA, STS-120, Shuttle-Mir Program…JohnsonSpaceCenter, International Space Station
Peggy Annette Whitson (born 9 February 1960) is an American biochemistry researcher and a NASA astronaut. Her experience with NASA includes an...
James Oberg

James Oberg

male, 65 years old
us congress, International Space Station, American Broadcasting Company, JohnsonSpaceCenter, Mission Control Center, Russian space program…Space Shuttle program, space
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...
Akihiko Hoshide

Akihiko Hoshide

male, 40 years old
University of Houston, STS-124, Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, STS-72, Setagaya, Tokyo, Kibō…JohnsonSpaceCenter, International Space Station
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 Me...
Michael Coats

Michael Coats

male, 63 years old
U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Inductee, United States Naval Aviator, Michael Lloyd Coats, JohnsonSpaceCenter, Flight Instructor, Naval Postgraduate School alumni
Michael Lloyd Coats (born January 16, 1946 in Sacramento, California) is a former NASA astronaut and he was raised in Riverside, California. Since...
Franklin Chang-Diaz

Franklin Chang-Diaz

male, 59 years old (Houston, Texas, United States)
NASA, Costa Rican-American, Variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket, space shuttle, astronaut, VASIMR…International Space Station, JohnsonSpaceCenter, outer space, MIT Plasma Fusion Center, NASA Johnson Space Center
Franklin Chang-Diaz is both an astronaut and the director of the Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory at NASA Johnson Space Center. Logging seven...
Eugene Cernan

Eugene Cernan

male, 75 years old
astronaut, Apollo 17, Apollo 10, Gemini 9A, Extra-vehicular activity, Purdue University alumni…Challenger Center, former Chairman of Johnson Engineering Corporation, American Space Institute, US Space Foundation, space
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...
David Wolf

David Wolf

male, 53 years old
astronaut, Purdue University alumni, Alpha Tau Omega, Indianapolis, Indiana University School of Medicine, International Space Station…JohnsonSpaceCenter, space shuttle
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...
Kent Rominger

Kent Rominger

male, 53 years old
From Colorado, Colorado State University, Association of Naval Aviation, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, JohnsonSpaceCenter, Society of Experimental Test Pilot…Association of Space Explorer
Kent Vernon Rominger (b. August 7, 1956) is a former American astronaut, former Chief of the NASA Astronaut Office at Johnson Space Center, and a...
Koichi Wakata

Koichi Wakata

male, 46 years old
Dan Barry, STS-72, Expedition 16, Omiya, Saitama, STS-123, from Saitama Prefecture…JohnsonSpaceCenter, International Space Station, space shuttle
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...