Liu Wang
Senior Colonel; Pilot; selected to the first Chinese cosmonaut (yuhangyuan) detachment.
Sergei Revin
PERSONAL DATA:Born January 12, 1966 in Moscow, Russia. Married to Irina Alexandrovna Revina. They have one son, Yaroslav. Enjoys tourism, skiing and water skiing, balloon flights, photo- and videotaping. EDUCATION:In 1989 he graduated from the ...
Anton Shkaplerov
PERSONAL DATA: Born February 20, 1972, in Sevastopol. His parents, Nikolay Ivanovich Shkaplerov and Tamara Viktorovna Shkaplerova, reside in Sevastopol, in the Crimea. Anton is married to Tatyana Petrovna, and they have two daughters named ...
Anatoli Ivanishin
Colonel, Russian Air Force (Ret. in August 2012); pilot; until 1987 he studied at the Polytechnic Institute in Irkutsk aeronautics; in 1991, he completed the Chernigov VVAUL; since 1991, he served in line units of the VVS, and now serves in the ...
Satoshi Furukawa
Satoshi Furukawa (古川 聡 Furukawa Satoshi, born April 4, 1964) is a Japanese surgeon and JAXA astronaut. Furukawa was assigned to the International Space Station as a flight engineer on long-duration missions Expedition 28/29, lifting off 7 June ...
Aleksandr Samokutyayev
Colonel, Russian Air Force (Ret. mid 2012); in 1992, he completed the Chernigov VVAUL; during 1992-1998 he served in the Far-Eastern Military District (DVO) as part of the 1st Air Army; during 1998-2000, he attended the VVS named for Gagarin; ...
Andrei Borisenko
PERSONAL DATA: Born April 17, 1964, in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia. Married to Zoya Leonidovna Borisenko (nee Tushenkova); they have a son, Ivan. His parents, Ivan Andreevich and Natalia Mikhailovna Borisenko, reside in Saint Petersburg. ...
Dmitri Kondratiyev
PERSONAL DATA: Born May 25, 1969, in Irkutsk. His parents, Yuri Semyonovich Kondratyev and Valentina Dmitrievna, reside in Alma-Aty, Kazakhstan. Dmitry is married to Dinara, and they have a son named Vladislav. His hobbies include computers, ...
Oleg Skripochka
PERSONAL DATA: Born December 24, 1969 in Nevinnomysk, Stavropol Region, Russia. Married to Elena Vladimirovna Milovanova. They have a daughter, Darya, born in 2005, and a son, Denis, born in 2008. Oleg’s hobbies include parachute sport and ...
Shannon Walker
Bachelor of Science in Physics from the Rice University, 1987; Master of Science in Astrophysics from the Rice University, 1992; Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the Rice University, 1993; semi-finalist in NASA astronaut groups 15, 16, 17 and 18 ...
Naoko Yamazaki
Naoko Yamazaki was born in 1970 in Matsudo City, Chiba. She received a bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering in 1993 and a master's degree in Aerospace Engineering in 1996, both from the University of Tokyo. Yamazaki joined the National ...
Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger
PERSONAL DATA: Born in May 1975, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, but considers Fort Collins, Colorado, her hometown. Married Jason Metcalf-Lindenburger of Pendleton, Oregon, in 2000. They have one child. Her parents are Joyce and Keith ...
James Dutton
PERSONAL DATA: Born in November 1968 in Eugene, Oregon. Married to the former Erin Ruhoff, also from Eugene. They have four sons—J.P., Will, Joey and Ryan. Dutton's parents, James Sr. and Nita Dutton, live in Newberg, Oregon. Erin's parents, Rod ...
Mikhail Kornienko
BIRTHPLACE AND DATE: Born 15 April, 1960, in Syzran, Kuibyshev region, Russia. PERSONAL DATA: Married to Irina Anatolievna Kornienko (Savostina); daughter Natalia. EDUCATION: Graduated from a secondary school in Chelyabinsk, Russia, in ...
Aleksandr Skvortsov
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov (Russian: Aлександр Aлександрович Скворцов; born May 6, 1966) is a Russian cosmonaut. He has had two spaceflights, which were long-duration missions aboard the International Space Station. His first spaceflight ...
Terry Virts Jr
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, USAF Academy, 1989; M.A.S. in Aeronautics, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 1997; Colonel, USAF; F-16 Test Pilot, Edwards AFB, California; hobbies: running, biking, swimming, golf, cross-country skiing, ...
Timothy Creamer
PERSONAL DATA: Born November 15, 1959, in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, but considers Upper Marlboro, Maryland, to be his home town. His interests include tennis, running, biking, reading, scuba diving, German language, Russian language and Information ...
Randolph Bresnik
Major, USMC; Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from The Citadel, 1989; Master of Science in Aviation Systems from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 2002; at the time of selection Operations Officer, F/A-18 Pilot, MCAS Miramar, San Diego, ...
Robert Satcher Jr
PERSONAL DATA: Born September 22, 1965, in Hampton, Virginia. Married to the former D’Juanna O. White, MPH, MD, of New York, New York. They have two children. He enjoys running, scuba diving and reading. His parents, Robert and Marian, reside in ...
Barry Wilmore
PERSONAL DATA: He is married to the former Miss Deanna Newport of Helenwood, Tennessee and they have two daughters. He was raised in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee where his parents Eugene and Faye Wilmore still reside. His brother Jack and family reside ...
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.
