Luke Mays
Former NASA astronaut instructor, now astronaut instructor at Virgin Galactic.
Christopher Huie
Aerospace engineer, senior manager of Virgin Galactic's Flight Sciences Engineering team.
Angelo Landolfi
Italian Air Force physician selected to fly on the Virgin Galactic 01 mission.
Konstantin Borisov
Konstantin Borisov is a Russian cosmonaut with a background in life support systems engineering and economics.
Alexander Grebenkin
Alexander Grebenkin is a Russian cosmonaut with a background in radio communications engineering.
Rayyanah Barnawi
Rayyanah Barnawi is an astronaut representing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and serving as a mission specialist on the Ax-2 mission. Barnawi has a Master of Biomedical Sciences from Alfaisal University and a Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences from ...
Ali AlQarni
Ali AlQarni is an astronaut representing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and serving as a mission specialist on the Ax-2 mission. AlQarni graduated with a Bachelor of Aerospace Science from King Faisal Air Academy. AlQarni is an Air Force captain and ...
John McFall
John has a background in sports and exercise science. He completed his bachelor’s degree from Swansea University, UK, in 2004, and his master’s degree from University of Wales Institute in Cardiff, UK, in 2005. In 2014, John graduated with a ...
Marco Alain Sieber
In 2009, Marco joined the paratrooper training with the Swiss Special Forces Commando at the Swiss Army, where he achieved the military rank of Sergeant. In 2015, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Bern, ...
Sophie Adenot
Between 2001 and 2003, Sophie studied engineering and graduated from ISAE-SUPAERO in Toulouse, France, where she specialised in spacecraft and aircraft flight dynamics. She then completed a Master of Science in human factors engineering at MIT – ...
Pablo Álvarez Fernández
Pablo holds a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of León (Universidad de León), Spain, and graduated with a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the Warsaw University of Technology (Politechnika ...
Raphaël Liégeois
Raphaël studied biomedical engineering at the University of Liège, Belgium, from 2005 to 2011. He also became Ingénieur Centralien as part of a double degree exchange programme with the École Centrale Paris, France, in 2009 and earned a master’s ...
Zhang Lu
Zhang Lu is a Chinese pilot selected in 2010 to be an astronaut.
Rosemary Coogan
Rosemary holds two master’s degrees from the University of Durham, UK. She completed her undergraduate master’s degree of Physics in 2013 which focused on physics, mathematics, computer programming and astronomy. In 2015, she received her ...
Snoopy
This Snoopy plushie serves as zero-G indicator on the Artemis-1 mission.
Shaun the Sheep
Shaun the Sheep is the main character of the eponymous British stop-motion TV show. This plushie serves as zero-G indicator on the Artemis-1 mission.
Zohar
Mannequin used as part of the DLR MARE radiations measurement experiment.
Helga
Mannequin used as part of the DLR MARE radiations measurement experiment.
Commander Moonikin Campos
Commander Moonikin Campos is an Anthropomorphic Test Device (ATD), named as a homage to to Arturo Campos, a key player in bringing Apollo 13 safely back to Earth.
Sultan Al Neyadi
Sultan AlNeyadi is one of the first two astronauts from the United Arab Emirates, along with Hazza Al Mansouri.
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.
