- Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961, he became the first man in space and the first to orbit the Earth. He also received many medals from his home country for his pioneering tour in space. - 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, … - Mikhail Tyurin
Mikhail Vladislavovich Tyurin is a Russian cosmonaut. - Sergei Krikalev
Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalyov is a Russian cosmonaut and veteran of six space flights. He has been dubbed by many "the last Citizen of the USSR " as in 1991–1992 he spent 311 days, 20 hours and 1 minute aboard the Mir space station whilst back on Earth the Soviet Union collapsed. Krikalyov has spent more time in space than any other human being. On August 16, 2005 at 1:44 a.m. EDT he passed the record of 748 days held by Sergei Avdeyev. - 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 - Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (born 6 March 1937), is a retired Soviet cosmonaut and was the first woman to fly in space, aboard Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. She was born in Bolshoye Maslennikovo, a small village in the Yaroslavl Oblast. After school she worked in a coat factory, and then studied engineering. She also trained in parachuting at the local Aeroclub, making her first jump at age 22 on 21 May 1959. - Oleg Kononenko
Oleg Dmitriyevich Kononenko was born June 21, 1964, in Chardzhou, Turkmenistan. Currently, Kononenko is scheduled to be Flight Engineer 1 on both the Expedition 17 mission to the International Space Station and the Soyuz TMA-12 mission that will bring him there. His mission is currently planned to begin April 2008 and last to September of that year. - Pavel Vinogradov
Pavel Vladimirovich Vinogradov is a cosmonaut. As of 2006, he was one of the top 25 astronauts in terms of total time in space. Vinogradov graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute in 1977. He subsequently worked as an aerospace engineer for RKK Energiya. He was selected for the cosmonaut program on March 3, 1992, and spent the next two years in training. - Fyodor Yurchikhin
Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin, Ph.D., RSC Energia Test-Cosmonaut, was born January 3, 1959, in Batumi, Autonomous Republic of Ajara in Georgia. Married to Larisa Anatolievna Yurshikina, born in Shyolkovo, Moscow region, he is of Greek Pontian descent. They have two daughters. His father, Nikolai Fyodorovich Yurchikhin, and mother, Mikrula Sofoklevna Yurchikhina, reside in Sindos, Greece. He also has a brother, two years younger. - Oleg Kotov
Oleg Valeriyevich Kotov was born October 27, 1965, in Simferopol, Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Ukraine. He is a member of the ISS Expedition 15, that launched on April 7, 2007 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, aboard Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft, together with Fyodor Yurchikhin and space tourist Charles Simonyi. At 19:05 GMT on 30 May 2007 Kotov and Yurchikhin began a 5 hour and 25 minute spacewalk, during which they installed protective panels to shield ISS from space debris. - Valery Tokarev
Valery Ivanovich Tokarev, Russian Air Force Colonel and test cosmonaut at the Yuri A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, was born October 29, 1952 in the town of Kap-Yar, Astrakhan Region Resides at Star City, Moscow Region. His wife, Irina Nikolaevna (Tokareva), was born February 25, 1955. They have two children: a daughter, Olya, and a son, Ivan. His mother, Lidiya Nikolaevna (Tokareva), lives in the city of Rostov, Yaroslavl Region. - Salizhan Sharipov
Salizhan Shakirovich Sharipov is a Russian cosmonaut. Although he lives in Kyrgyzstan, he is from a minority Uzbek group. He is married to Nadezhda Mavlyanovna Sharipova. They have one daughter and one son. He is known to enjoy football (soccer) and reading. His father, Mr. Shakirzhan Sharipov, resides in Uzgen. He is also notable for having a prominent unibrow. - 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. - Gennady Padalka
Gennady Ivanovich Padalka is a Russian cosmonaut. He is married to Irina Anatolievna Padalka (Ponomareva). They have three daughters: Yulia, Ekaterina and Sonya. Gennady enjoys the theater, parachute sport and diving. Padalka is a recipient of the Hero Star of the Russian Federation and the title of Russian Federation Test-Cosmonaut. He has logged 1500 flight hours in six types of aircraft as a First Class Pilot in the Russian Air Force. - Yuri Gidzenko
Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko (Russian: Гидзенко, Юрий Павлович; born March 26, 1962 in the village of Elanets, Mykolaiv Oblast) is a Russian cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He is the Colonel of the Russian Air Force, and test cosmonaut of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He is married to Olga Vladimirovna Shapovalova, born in 1961. They have two sons, Sergei and Alexei. - Gherman Titov
Gherman Stepanovich Titov (September 11, 1935 - September 20, 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut and the second person to orbit the Earth (the fourth person in space). - Vladimir Komarov
Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Комаров; March 16, 1927 – April 24, 1967) was a Soviet cosmonaut. He was the first confirmed human to die during a space mission, on Soyuz 1, and the first Soviet cosmonaut to travel into space more than once. He was born in Moscow, USSR (now Russia). He was selected to become a cosmonaut in 1960 with the first cosmonaut group. - Svetlana Savitskaya
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. - Dumitru Prunariu
Dumitru Dorin Prunariu is a Romanian cosmonaut. Born in Braşov, he graduated with a degree in aeronautical engineering from Polytechnic University of Bucharest in 1976. He then worked as an engineer at IAR Braşov, an aircraft industry facility. Subsequently, he enrolled in the Romanian Air Forces Officers' Training School in 1977, becoming an air force pilot. On May 14, 1981 he became the first and so far the only Romanian to fly in space (on Soyuz 40). - Valery Korzun
Valery Grigorievich Korzun is a Russian cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He is a Russian Air Force Colonel and cosmonaut of Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, was born March 5, 1953, in Krasny Sulin. Korzun and his wife Elana have one son, Nikita. His father is Korzun Grigori Andreevich, and his mother, Korzun Maria Arsentievna. - 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. - Helen Sharman
Born in Sheffield's Jessop Hospital in 1963, Helen's family originally lived in Grenoside where she attended Grenoside Junior and Infant School and then moved to Greenhill. After studying at Jordanthorpe Comprehensive, Helen gained a Chemistry degree at Sheffield University. - Sergei Avdeyev
Sergei Vasilyevich Avdeyev is a Russian cosmonaut. Avdeyev was born in Chapayevsk, Samara Oblast (formerly Kuybyshev Oblast), Russian SFSR. He graduated from Moscow Physics-Engineering Institute in 1979 as an engineer-physicist. From 1979 to 1987 he worked as an engineer for NPO Energiya. He was selected as a cosmonaut as part of the Energia Engineer Group 9 on 26 March 1987. His basic cosmonaut training was from December 1987 through to July 1989. - Christer Fuglesang
Arne Christer Fuglesang (born March 18, 1957) is a Swedish scientist and an ESA astronaut. He was launched aboard the STS-116 Shuttle mission on 10 December, 2006, at 01:47 GMT, making him the first Swede and the first Nordic citizen in space. - Pavel Popovich
Pavel Romanovich Popovich was a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent, arguably the first ethnic Ukrainian to fly in space. Popovich commanded two space flights, Vostok 4 and Soyuz 14. His call sign in these flights was Golden eagle. In 1960, he was selected as one of a group of twenty air force pilots that would train as the first cosmonauts. Vostok 4 was part the first dual space flight, with Andrian Nikolayev on Vostok 3. He retired from the space programme in 1982. - Yuri Shargin
Yuri Georgiyevich Shargin is a cosmonaut in the Russian Space Forces. He was born March 20, 1960 in Engels, Saratov Oblast, Russian SFSR. He is divorced and has two children. Shargin graduated from the Military Engineering Academy for Aeronautics and Astronautics located in Leningrad. He is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Russian Space Forces. He was selected as a cosmonaut on February 9, 1996. - Vladimir Titov
Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov, Colonel, Russian Air Force, Ret., and former Russian cosmonaut was born January 1, 1947, in Sretensk, in the Chita Region of Russia. He is married to the former Alexandra Kozlova of Ivanovo Region, Russia. They have two children. - Rakesh Sharma
Rakesh Sharma (born January 13, 1949 in Patiala, Punjab, India) was the first Indian and 138th man to visit space. Rakesh Sharma, then squadron leader and pilot with the Indian Air Force embarked on the mission in 1984 as part of a joint space program between the Indian Space Research Organisation and the Soviet Intercosmos space program and spent eight days in space aboard the Salyut 7 space station. - Yury Usachev
Yuri Vladimirovich Usachev (Russian: Юрий Владимирович Усачев; born October 9, 1957 in Donetsk, Rostov Oblast, Russia) is a former cosmonaut who resides in Star City, Moscow. - Vladislav Volkov
Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov (Russian: Владислав Николаевич Волков; born November 23, 1935, Moscow - June 30, 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 11 missions. He was a member of the second crew to die during a space flight on Soyuz 11. After a normal re-entry, the capsule was opened and the crew was found dead. - Yuri Romanenko
Yuri Victorovitch Romanenko (born August 1, 1944, Koltoubanovski USSR) is a former Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (March 16, 1978 and September 26, 1980). Had been Commander of: * Soyuz 26 * Soyuz 27 * Soyuz 38 * Soyuz TM-2 * Soyuz TM-3 Yuri Romanenko has spent a total of 430 days 20 hours 21 minutes 30 seconds in space. - Talgat Musabayev
Talgat Amangeldyuly Musabayev (Kazakh: Талғат Аманкелдіұлы Мұсабаев; born 7 January 1951, Kargaly, Kazakhstan), is a Kazakh test pilot and former cosmonaut (Kazakh: gharyshker) who flew on the following space missions: *Soyuz TM-19 Flight Engineer - 4 November 1994 - 125d 22h 53m *Soyuz TM-27 Commander - 25 August 1998 - 207d 12h 49m *Soyuz TM-32/Soyuz TM-31 Commander - 6 May 2001 - 7d 22h 04m As of 2007, … - Viktor Patsayev
Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev (Russian: Виктор Иванович Пацаев; June 19, 1933, Aktyubinsk – June 30 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and had the unfortunate distinction of being part of the second crew to die during a space flight. Onboard space station Salyut 1 he operated the Orion 1 Space Observatory (see Orion 1 and Orion 2 Space Observatories), … - 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. - Pavel Belyayev
Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, June 26, 1925, Chelizshevo – January 10, 1970, Moscow, was a cosmonaut who flew on the historic Voskhod 2 mission. Belyayev was selected for the space programme in 1960 after nearly fifteen years experience in the Soviet air force and navy. He was originally to fly the Vostok 8 mission into Earth's van Allen radiation belt, but this was cancelled. He died in 1970 from peritonitis that resulted from an operation on a stomach ulcer. - 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, … - Yuri Lonchakov
Yuri Valentinovich Lonchakov is a Russian cosmonaut and a veteran of two space missions. Lonchakov was born in Balkhash and entered the Russian Air Force following graduation from high school in 1982. He served as a paratrooper and pilot and was selected as a cosmonaut candidate in 1997. Lonchakov's first spaceflight was Space Shuttle mission STS-100, visiting the International Space Station. Lonchakov again visited the ISS in 2002 aboard the Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-1. - Sigmund Jähn
Sigmund Werner Paul Jähn was the first German cosmonaut. He was born in Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz, Vogtland, Germany. From 1943 to 1951 he attended school in his hometown, and after school trained as a printer. In 1955 he joined the East German air force (the Luftstreitkräfte der NVA) where he became a pilot and military scientist. From 1966-1970 he studied at the Gagarin Military Air Academy in Monino, in the Soviet Union, … - Boris Yegorov
Boris Borisovich Yegorov (Russian: Борис Борисович Егоров; November 26, 1937, Moscow – September 12, 1994, Moscow) was a Soviet doctor-cosmonaut and the first physician in space. Yegorov came from a medical background, with his father a prominent heart surgeon, and his mother an ophthalmologist. He also selected medicine as a career and graduated from the First Moscow Medical Institute in 1961. - Musa Manarov
Musa Khiramanovich Manarov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR on March 22, 1951. He was a colonel at the Russian Air Force and graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute with an engineering diploma in 1974. Musa was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978. He is currently married with two children. From December 21, 1987 - December 21, 1988 he flew as flight engineer on Soyuz TM-4. The duration was 365 days 22 hours 38 minutes.
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