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Astronauts

Deke Slayton

Deke Slayton

  • Date of Birth: 03/01/1924
  • Date of Death: 06/13/1993
  • Nationality: United States of America
  • First Flight: 07/15/1975
  • Last Flight: 07/15/1975

Donald Kent "Deke" Slayton, was an American World War II pilot, aeronautical engineer, and test pilot who was selected as one of the origina...

Douglas G. Hurley

Douglas G. Hurley

  • Date of Birth: 10/21/1966
  • Nationality: United States of America
  • First Flight: 07/15/2009
  • Last Flight: 05/30/2020

Douglas Gerald Hurley is an engineer and retired NASA astronaut. He piloted Space Shuttle mission STS-127, which launched July 15, 2009. He was assign...

Gordon Cooper

Gordon Cooper

  • Date of Birth: 03/06/1927
  • Date of Death: 10/04/2004
  • Nationality: United States of America
  • First Flight: 05/15/1963
  • Last Flight: 08/21/1965

Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper Jr. was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and the youngest of the seven...

Gus Grissom

Gus Grissom

  • Date of Birth: 04/03/1926
  • Date of Death: 01/27/1967
  • Nationality: United States of America
  • First Flight: 07/21/1961
  • Last Flight: 01/27/1967

Lieutenant Colonel Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom was one of the seven original National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Project Mercury a...

John Glenn

John Glenn

  • Date of Birth: 07/18/1921
  • Date of Death: 12/08/2016
  • Nationality: United States of America
  • First Flight: 02/20/1962
  • Last Flight: 10/29/1998

Colonel John Herschel Glenn Jr. was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the first American ...

Michael S. Hopkins

Michael S. Hopkins

  • Date of Birth: 12/28/1968
  • Nationality: United States of America
  • First Flight: 09/25/2013
  • Last Flight: 11/16/2020

Michael Scott Hopkins (born December 28, 1968) is a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force, and a current NASA astronaut. Hopkins was selected in June 2009 as ...

Nick Hague

Nick Hague

  • Date of Birth: 09/24/1975
  • Nationality: United States of America
  • First Flight: 10/11/2018
  • Last Flight: 09/28/2024

Tyler Nicklaus Hague is a retired American Flight Test Engineer and NASA astronaut of the class of 2013.
Selected to be a flight engineer of E...

Oleg Artemyev

Oleg Artemyev

  • Date of Birth: 12/28/1970
  • Nationality: Russia
  • First Flight: 03/25/2014
  • Last Flight: 03/18/2022

Oleg Germanovich Artemyev (Russian: Олег Германович Артемьев) is a Russian Cosmonaut for the Russian Federal Space Agency. He wa...

Richard Mastracchio

Richard Mastracchio

  • Date of Birth: 02/11/1960
  • Nationality: United States of America
  • First Flight: 09/08/2000
  • Last Flight: 11/07/2013

Richard Alan "Rick" Mastracchio is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He has flown on three NASA Space Shuttle missions as a mi...

Richard R. Arnold

Richard R. Arnold

  • Date of Birth: 11/26/1963
  • Nationality: United States of America
  • First Flight: 03/15/2009
  • Last Flight: 03/21/2018

Richard Robert "Ricky" Arnold II is an American educator and a NASA astronaut. He flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-119, which launched Marc...