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Countries (and successor states) whose citizens have flown in space as of January 2024. The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) defines spaceflight as any flight over 100 kilometres (62 mi), while in the United States, professional, military and commercial astronauts who travel above an altitude of 50 miles (80 ...
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Ellen Ochoa. Ellen Ochoa (born May 10, 1958) is a Hispanic engineer, former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center. [1] In 1993, Ochoa became the first Latina woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. [2] Ochoa became director of the center upon the retirement of the ...
Nicole Victoria " Duke " [ 1 ]Aunapu Mann (born June 27, 1977) is an American test pilot and NASA astronaut. She is an F/A-18 Hornet pilot and a graduate of the US Naval Academy, Stanford University, and the US Naval Test Pilot School. [ 2 ][ 3 ] She has over 2,500 flight hours in 25 types of aircraft and 200 carrier landings, and has flown 47 ...
Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut to have ...
21h 24m. Missions. Soyuz MS-22 / Soyuz MS-23 (Expedition 67 / 68 / 69) [1] Mission insignia. Francisco Carlos " Frank " [2] Rubio (born December 11, 1975) is an American flight surgeon, US Army colonel and helicopter pilot, and NASA astronaut. He holds the American record for the longest spaceflight at 371 days.
Rutgers University. Website. www.katechazarreta.com. Katya Celeste Echazarreta González[1] (born June 15, 1995) is a Mexican electrical engineer, science communicator, and Citizen Astronaut. She became the first Mexican-born woman in space as part of Space for Humanity's Citizen Astronaut Program, launched June 4, 2022. [2]
African-American astronauts are Americans of African descent who have been part of an astronaut program, whether or not they have traveled into space. African-Americans who have been passengers on space-tourist flights are also included in this article, although there is dispute over whether such passengers become "astronauts." [1]