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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 ...
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 ...
This is a list of astronauts by year of selection: people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies.
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.
1993 (age 30–31) Emirate of Sharjah, UAE. Status. Active. Space career. Selection. 2021 [1] Nora AlMatrooshi (Arabic: نورا المطروشي; born 1993) is an Emirati engineer and astronaut. In April 2021, she was selected to train with the NASA Astronaut Group 23 of astronauts to work as an international mission specialist.
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.
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.
As of 2015, astronauts based at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, earn between $66,026 (GS-11 step 1) and $158,700 (GS-15 step 8 and above). [5] As of the new astronaut candidate class announcement of 2024, astronaut candidates will be removed from the GS pay scale and be paid on an AD 'Administratively Determined" scale.