Wayne Hale

male
Rice University, kennedy space center, NASA, spaceshuttle, purdue university, Johnson Space Center
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...
Lisa Nowak

Lisa Nowak

female, 46 years old
woman astronaut, astronaut, astronaut diaper, crazy, Lisa Marie Nowak, Women in the United States Navy…spaceshuttle, International Space Station
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 m...
Eileen Collins

Eileen Collins

female, 53 years old
astronaut, Women in the United States Air Force, test pilot, Eileen Marie Collins, from Elmira, New York, Irish-American in the military…Space Shuttle program, spaceshuttle
Eileen Marie Collins (b. 19 November, 1956 in Elmira, New York) is an American astronaut and a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel. A former military...
Ilan Ramon

Ilan Ramon

male, deceased (2003)
astronaut, Space Program Fatality, Jewish person, Congressional Space Medal of Honor, Israeli Air Force personnel, spaceshuttle…space shuttle columbia, Israeli space program, Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, Space program fatalities, European Space Agency
Ilan Ramon (June 20 1954 - February 1 2003;) was a combat pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and later the first Israeli astronaut. Ramon was the...
Kalpana Chawla

Kalpana Chawla

female, deceased (2003)
Aerospace engineer, astronaut, engineer, mechanical engineer, Congressional Space Medal of Honor, From Karnal…Space Program Fatality, spaceshuttle, space shuttle columbia, Space program fatalities
Kalpana Chawla (Punjabi:ਕਲਪਨਾ ਚਾਵਲਾ) (7 March 1962 – 1 February 2003), was an Indian-born American astronaut and space shuttle mission specia...
Sally Ride

Sally Ride

female, 58 years old
woman astronaut, Stanford University, Master's Degree, English, Flight controller, Ph.D.…spaceshuttle, space shuttle challenger, woman in space, outer space
Sally Kristen Ride (born May 26 1951) is an American former astronaut who in 1983 became the first American woman to reach outer space. She was...
John Young

John Young

male, 79 years old
astronaut, United States Naval Aviator, U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Inductee, United States Navy officer, Apollo Command/Service Module, Command/Service Module…Space Shuttle program, spaceshuttle
John Watts Young (born September 24, 1930) is a former NASA astronaut who walked on the Moon on April 21, 1972 during the Apollo 16 mission. Young...
Hans Schlegel

Hans Schlegel

male, 58 years old
esa, astronaut, European Astronaut Corps, International Space Station, University of Aachen, European Space Agency…spaceshuttle
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...
Soichi Noguchi

Soichi Noguchi

male, 44 years old
astronaut, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, jaxa, STS-114, Space Shuttle program, Columbia disaster…spaceshuttle, European Space Agency
Soichi Noguchi is a Japanese aeronautical engineer and a JAXA astronaut. His first spaceflight was as a Mission Specialist aboard STS-114 on 26...
Piers Sellers

Piers Sellers

male, 54 years old
astronaut, ph.d, British, Meteorologist, spaceshuttle, naturalized citizen of the United States
Piers John Sellers, Ph.D (born 11 April 1955) is a British-American astronaut and veteran of two space shuttle missions.