Bernard Harris
PERSONAL DATA: Born June 26, 1956, in Temple, Texas. Married to the former Sandra Fay Lewis of Sunnyvale, California. They have one child. He enjoys flying, sailing, skiing, running, scuba diving, art and music. Bernard's mother, Mrs. Gussie H. ...
Charles Precourt
PERSONAL DATA: Born June 29, 1955, in Waltham, Massachusetts, but considers Hudson, Massachusetts, to be his hometown. Married to the former Lynne Denise Mungle of St. Charles, Missouri. They have three daughters, Michelle, Sarah, and Aimee. ...
Ellen Ochoa
Ellen Ochoa is an American engineer, former astronaut and the current Director of the Johnson Space Center. Ochoa became director of the center upon the retirement of the previous director, Michael Coats, on December 31, 2012. In 1993 Ochoa ...
Kenneth Cockrell
PERSONAL DATA: Born April 9, 1950, in Austin, Texas, but considers Rockdale, Texas, his hometown. He has two children and enjoys sport flying, snow skiing and water skiing. EDUCATION: Graduated from Rockdale High School, Rockdale, Texas, in ...
Aleksander Poleshchuk
PERSONAL DATA: Born October 30, 1953 in Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk region, Russia. Resides in Moscow, Russia. Married to Irina Petrovna Poleschuk (nee Chistyakova). They have one daughter. His mother, Valentina Sergeevna Poleschuk, died in 1995. His ...
Susan Helms
Susan Jane Helms is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut. Helms was a crew member on five Space Shuttle missions and was a resident of the International Space Station (ISS) for over five months ...
Michael Clifford
PERSONAL DATA Born October 13, 1952 in San Bernadino, California, but considers Ogden, Utah, to be his hometown. Married to the former Nancy Elizabeth Brunson of Darlington, South Carolina. They have two sons. He enjoys flying, golf, tennis, ...
Steven MacLean
Prior to his appointment as President, Dr. MacLean was Chief Astronaut of the CSA and coordinated the astronaut activities. He also championed studies, served on steering committees and was the Canadian voting member on the Multi-Crew Operational ...
Mamoru Mohri
Mamoru “Mark” Mohri (毛利 衛 Mōri Mamoru, born 29 January 1948), AM is a Japanese scientist, a former NASDA astronaut, and a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions. Mohri was selected by the National Space Development Agency of Japan (now JAXA) ...
Mae Jemison
Mae Carol Jemison is an American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992. After medical school and a ...
Nancy Davis
PERSONAL DATA: Born November 1, 1953, at Cocoa Beach, Florida, but considers Huntsville Alabama, to be her hometown. She enjoys flying, ice skating, snow skiing, water sports, and needlework. EDUCATION: Graduated from Huntsville High School in ...
Curtis Brown
PERSONAL DATA: Born March 11, 1956, in Elizabethtown, North Carolina. He is married and has one son. He enjoys water and snow skiing, scuba diving, air racing, restoring old cars, sailing, aerobatic flying. His mother, Mrs. Rachel H. Brown, ...
Franco Malerba
Bachelor of science in electronical engineering from the University of Genova, 1970; Ph.D. in physics from the University of Genova, 1974; hobbies: Mountaineering, skiing, tennis; 1994 - 1999 Italian Member of the European Parliament; member of ...
Claude Nicollier
Claude Nicollier was an ESA astronaut of Swiss nationality for almost 30 years. Education He graduated from the University of Lausanne in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science in physics and the University of Geneva in 1975 with a Master of ...
Andrew Allen
PERSONAL DATA: Born August 4, 1955, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Four children. Enjoys woodworking, racquetball, weight lifting, and bicycling. His father, Charles A. Allen, resides in Titusville, Florida. His mother, Loretta T. Allen, is ...
Michel Tognini
Personal data Born 30 September 1949, in Vincennes, France. Four children. Enjoys parachuting and parafoil, tennis, windsurfing, water-skiing, snow-skiing, cross-country running, wave-surfing, discus launch gliders and computers. Education ...
Sergei Avdeyev
Russian engineer and 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 ...
Eugene Trinh
PERSONAL DATA: Born September 14, 1950, in Saigon,Vietnam; was raised from the age of two in Paris, France and has lived in the United States since 1968. Currently a resident of Culver City, California. Married to the former Yvette Fabry. ...
Lawrence DeLucas
PERSONAL DATA: Born July 11, 1950, Syracuse, New York. Married and has three children. Recreational interests include basketball, scuba diving, model airplanes, astronomy and reading. EDUCATION: Bachelor of science degree and master of science ...
Kenneth Bowersox
PERSONAL DATA: Born November 14, 1956, in Portsmouth, Virginia, but considers Bedford, Indiana, to be his hometown. EDUCATION: Graduated from Bedford High School, Bedford, Indiana, in 1974; received a bachelor of science degree in aerospace ...
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.
