Henry Wolfond
Henry (Hank) Wolfond is Chairman and CEO of Bayshore Capital in Toronto, Canada. A lifelong aviator, Henry holds an Airline Transport Pilots license for fixed wing aircraft and a Commercial Pilots License for Helicopters. He moonlights as a ...
James Russell
James (J.D.) Russell is a serial entrepreneur and founder of InfoHOA, a leader in technology-based community management solutions. He was born into a military family at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, AZ, and earned the Billy Mitchell ...
Austin Litteral
Austin works as a risk management professional in the financial services industry. He’s a husband and a father of two daughters. Austin spends his free time hiking in state parks with his family and cheering for the local sports teams.
Emily Calandrelli
Emily Dawn Calandrelli is an American science communicator, engineer, author, and television presenter. She was the host and an executive producer of Xploration Outer Space and Emily's Wonder Lab.
Haozhe Wang
Wang Haozhe is a Chinese astronaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program. She joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in December 2009 and enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in January 2021. Prior to being chosen into the ...
Lingdong Song
Song Lingdong is a Chinese pilot and astronaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force in August 2008, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in March 2013. He was a Sukhoi ...
Ephraim Rabin
Ephraim is an American-Israeli businessman, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Parchem Fine & Specialty Chemicals, a technology company revolutionizing supply chains for specialized raw materials and ingredients ...
Karsen Kitchen
Student in Communications and Astronomy, founder of Orbitelle, an initiative to encourage women to pursue careers in the space industry. She has researched radio astronomy at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia and worked at UNC's ...
Eiman Jahangir
Eiman is a cardiologist and Associate Professor of Medicine and Radiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he treats patients with heart disease and educates future physicians. Outside of medicine, he has a passion for exploration, ...
Eugene Grin
Eugene was born in Ukraine and emigrated to the United States in 1979, where he started his career in real estate and finance. His passions include meditation, travel, and adventure sports. He lives in upstate New York and has four children.
Rob Ferl
Rob is a distinguished professor and director of the Astraeus Space Institute at the University of Florida. He has spent his career studying how living organisms respond to extreme conditions, especially microgravity. He and his colleagues have ...
Nicolina Elrick
Nicolina is a philanthropist and entrepreneur whose career spans high fashion modeling to property development and founding multiple IT corporations in the 1990s. A graduate of CoachU and a vocal advocate for STEM education, she has dedicated her ...
Alexey Zubritsky
Russian cosmonaut from the 2018 selection
Tibor Kapu
Hungarian astronaut selected to participate in a private spaceflight to the ISS as part of the HUNOR program.
Sławosz Uznański
Sławosz Uznański is a Polish engineer working at the European Space Agency as a project astronaut since 2023 and formerly at CERN.
Shubhanshu Shukla
Indian astronaut part of the first group of the Indian domestic human spaceflight program.
Kirill Peskov
Russian group 17 cosmonaut and former airline pilot.
Giorgio Manenti
Passenger on Virgin Galactic's seventh commercial spaceflight.
Irving Pergament
Passenger on Virgin Galactic's seventh commercial spaceflight.
Andy Sadhwani
SpaceX engineer and passenger on Virgin Galactic's seventh commercial spaceflight.
What is the difference between a cosmonaut and an astronaut?
Cosmonaut and astronaut are synonyms, that is, theoretically we can use them interchangeably, but traditionally we call people launched into space by the Americans astronauts and by the Russians cosmonauts, regardless of what nationalities they were. That is, Americans, Canadians, Japanese, Italians, French and Germans flying with Americans are astronauts. In contrast, General Hermaszewski, the only (so far) Pole in Space, is called a cosmonaut because he flew as part of the Soviet space program.
