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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.
Thus, in 1978, a new group of 35 astronauts was selected after 9 years without new astronauts, including the first American female astronauts, with one of them, Judith Resnik, also being the first Jewish American astronaut, as well as the first African-American astronauts to fly, Guion Bluford and Frederick D. Gregory (the first black astronaut ...
This is a complete list of astronauts in the United States Space Force.There have currently been two NASA astronauts who have been members of the U.S. Space Force. The first U.S. Space Force astronaut, Colonel Mike Hopkins, commemorated the service's first birthday by having his transfer ceremony on 19 December 2020 on the International Space Station.
1 By name. 2 By nationality. 3 By demographic group. 4 By achievement. 5 Other. ... List of United States Marine Corps astronauts; List of United States Space Force ...
United States: 11 December 2021: Blue Origin NS-19 [317] Michael Strahan United States: Dylan Taylor United States: Evan Dick United States: Lane Bess United States: Cameron Bess United States: 597 Denis Matveev Russia 18 March 2022 Soyuz MS-21 [318] Sergey Korsakov Russia 599 Marty Allen United States: 31 March 2022: Blue Origin NS-20 [319 ...
United States Astronaut Hall of Fame inductees (110 P) W. American women astronauts (65 P)
All of these astronauts flew on Gemini, and except for White, each commanded one Gemini and one Apollo mission: Edward H. White II – Second-seat veteran of Gemini 4 who made the United States' first walk in space, selected as Senior Pilot (second seat) on Apollo 1. White was killed in the Apollo 1 fire along with Grissom and Chaffee.
San Francisco: John Young (1930–2018), first NASA astronaut to fly five and six times, first man to orbit the Moon on two missions — Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9 Pomona : Victor J. Glover , first African American astronaut to go to the ISS on a long-duration flight — SpaceX Crew-1