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This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name. More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts.
Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. The first group of astronauts selected by NASA were for Project Mercury in April 1959. All seven were military test pilots, a requirement specified by President Eisenhower to simplify the selection process.
John Young, 19th person in space, first to fly solo around the Moon and first to command a Space Shuttle. Vladimir Komarov, joint 14th person and first to die during spaceflight (during Soyuz 1). Neil Armstrong, joint 26th person in space and first to set foot on the Moon. Harrison Schmitt, joint 59th person in space.
Mercury Seven astronauts (L to R): Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Grissom, Schirra, Shepard, and Slayton. Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom began his career at NASA in 1959. In 1966, he was selected as Command Pilot for the first crewed Apollo mission, a low Earth orbit test.
USA (NASA) Gemini 3: 14 July 1965: First flyby of Mars (returned pictures). USA (NASA) Mariner 4 [14] 14 July 1965: First photographs of another planet from deep space . USA (NASA) Mariner 4 [14] 15 December 1965: First orbital rendezvous (parallel flight, no docking). USA (NASA) Gemini 6A/Gemini 7: 3 February 1966: First soft landing on ...
v. t. e. The NASA Astronaut Corps is a unit of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that selects, trains, and provides astronauts as crew members for U.S. and international space missions. It is based at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Contents. List of Apollo missions. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [ 1 ] The program used the Saturn IB and Saturn V launch vehicles to lift the Command/Service Module (CSM ...
The following is a list of women who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight. This list includes Russian cosmonauts , who were the first women in outer space. Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space in 1963, very early in crewed space exploration , and it would be almost twenty years before another flew ...