Robert Thirsk
Birthplace and date: Born August 17, 1953, New Westminster, British Columbia. Education: Bob attended primary and secondary schools in British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering ...
Jean-Jacques Favier
PERSONAL DATA: Born April 13, 1949, in Kehl, Germany. Married to the former Michele Jean. Four children. He enjoys downhill skiing, tennis, wind-surfing, and archeology. EDUCATION: Attended primary and secondary schools in Strasbourg, France. ...
Charles Brady,Jr
PERSONAL DATA: Born August 12, 1951, in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Brady passed away July 23, 2006 at his home in Washington State. EDUCATION: Graduated from North Moore High School, Robbins, North Carolina, in 1969; was pre-med at University ...
Richard Linnehan
PERSONAL DATA: Born September 19, 1957, in Lowell, Massachusetts. Raised by his paternal grandparents, Henry and Mae Linnehan. He enjoys various sports, outdoor activities and natural history. His sister, Colleen, resides in Nevada. EDUCATION: ...
Andrew Thomas
PERSONAL DATA: Born December 18, 1951, in Adelaide, South Australia. Married to Astronaut Shannon Walker. He enjoys horse riding and jumping, mountain biking, running, wind surfing, and classical guitar playing. His father, Adrian C. Thomas, ...
Umberto Guidoni
Umberto Guidoni (born 18 August 1954 in Rome) is an Italian astrophysicist, science writer and a former ESA astronaut, being the first European to visit the International Space Station. He is a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions.
Maurizio Cheli
Personal data Born 4 May 1959, in Modena, Italy. Married to the former Marianne Merchez. He enjoys soccer, cycling, tennis and travelling. His mother Eulalia resides in Zocca (Modena), Italy. Her parents, Marcel and Annie Merchez, reside in ...
Scott Horowitz
PERSONAL DATA: Born March 24, 1957, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but considers Thousand Oaks, California, to be his hometown. Married to the former Lisa Marie Kern. They have three children. He enjoys designing, building, and flying home-built ...
Yuri Onufriyenko
PERSONAL DATA: Born February 6, 1961 in Ryasnoe, Zolochev district, Kharkov region, Ukraine. Married to Valentina Mikhailovna Onufrienko (nee Ryabovol). Two sons and one daughter. His parents are deceased. He has two older brothers. Yuri enjoys ...
Daniel Barry
PERSONAL DATA: Born December 30, 1953, in Norwalk, Connecticut, but considers South Hadley, Massachusetts, to be his hometown. Enjoys flying, tennis, running. EDUCATION: Graduated from Bolton High School, Alexandria, Louisiana, in 1971; ...
Koichi Wakata
Koichi Wakata (若田 光一 Wakata Kōichi, born 1 August 1963) is a Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut. Wakata is a veteran of four NASA Space Shuttle missions, a Russian Soyuz mission, and a long-duration stay on the International Space Station. ...
Winston Scott
PERSONAL: Born August 6, 1950, in Miami, Florida. Married to the former Marilyn K. Robinson. They have two children. He enjoys martial arts and holds a 2nd degree black belt in Shotokan karate. He also enjoys music, and plays trumpet with various ...
Brent Jett Jr
PERSONAL DATA: Born October 5, 1958, in Pontiac, Michigan. Hometown: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Married to Janet Leigh Lyon of Patuxent River, Maryland. EDUCATION: Earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the U.S. ...
Chris Hadfield
Personal Profile: Born August 29, 1959, in Sarnia, and raised in Milton, Ontario. Colonel Chris Hadfield is married to Helene Hadfield (née Walter). They have three children. He enjoys skiing, playing guitar, singing, riding, writing, running, ...
Albert Sacco Jr
PERSONAL DATA: Born on May 3, 1949, in Boston, Massachusetts. Married the former Teran Lee Gardner, of Massachusetts, in November 1971. They have four children. He enjoys jogging, reading, walking, and is an avid scuba diver and a certified scuba ...
Frederick Leslie
PERSONAL DATA: Born December 19, 1951, in Ancon, Panama. Fred and wife Kathy reside in Huntsville, Alabama. With more than 5,500 parachute jumps, he enjoys skydiving and has earned multiple world records as a participant in large freefall ...
Miguel López-Alegría
PERSONAL DATA: Born May 30, 1958, in Madrid, Spain, and grew up in Mission Viejo, California. Lopez-Alegria enjoys sports, traveling and cooking and is interested in national and international political, economics and security affairs. ...
Catherine Coleman
Coleman graduated from Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School, Fairfax, Virginia, in 1978;[1] in 1978–1979 she was an exchange student at Røyken upper secondary school in Norway with the AFS Intercultural Programs. She received a bachelor of science ...
Kent Rominger
PERSONAL DATA: Born August 7, 1956, in Del Norte, Colorado. Married to the former Mary Sue Rule. They have one child. He enjoys snow skiing, water skiing, horseback riding, and running. His parents, Mr. & Mrs. R. Vernon Rominger, reside in Del ...
Michael Gernhardt
PERSONAL DATA: Born May 4, 1956, in Mansfield, Ohio. He enjoys running, swimming, flying, fishing, and scuba diving. His father, George M. Gernhardt is deceased. His mother, Suzanne C. Winters, resides in Whitestone, Virginia. HONORS: NASA ...
Was unterscheidet
Der Kosmonaut und der Astronaut sind Synonyme, das heißt, theoretisch können wir sie austauschbar verwenden, aber traditionell nennen wir die Menschen, die ins All geschickt werden, von den Amerikanern Astronauten und von den Russen Kosmonauten, unabhängig davon, welcher Nationalität sie angehören.
