Klaus-Dietrich Flade
Klaus-Dietrich Flade (born August 23, 1952) is a German pilot and former German Aerospace Center astronaut who visited the Mir space station in 1992 aboard the Soyuz TM-14 mission, returning to Earth a week later aboard Soyuz TM-13.
Alexander Kaleri
PERSONAL DATA: Born May 13, 1956, in Yurmala, Latvia. Married to Svetlana Leonidovna Kaleri (Nosova). They have one son, Oleg, born in 1996. His hobbies include collecting stamps and space logos, sports, history of cosmonautics and promotion ...
Roberta Bondar
Dr. Roberta Bondar was born in Sault Ste. Marie Ontario on December 4, 1945. Dr. Bondar completed both her elementary and secondary schooling in Sault Ste. Marie graduating from Sir James Dunn Collegiate & Vocational School. Her father, Edward ...
William Readdy
PERSONAL DATA: Born January 24, 1952, in Quonset Point, Rhode Island, but considers McLean, Virginia, to be his hometown. Married to Colleen Nevius. They have two sons and a daughter. He enjoys sailing, racquet sports, flying, and reading. ...
Stephen Oswald
PERSONAL DATA: Born June 30, 1951, in Seattle, Washington, but considers Bellingham, Washington, to be his hometown. Married to the former Diane K. Kalklosch of Fullerton, California. They have three children, Monique, Janna, and Scott. ...
Thomas Hennen
PERSONAL DATA: Born August 17, 1952, in Albany Georgia, but considers Columbus, Ohio to be his hometown. Tom is married to the former Sherri Wise of Houston, Texas. Together they have six children: Kristopher; Jessie; Karl; Kyle; Kendall; and ...
James Voss
Scholar in Residence at the University of Colorado. He is a retired United States Army Colonel and NASA astronaut. During his time with NASA, Voss flew in space five times on board the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. He also served ...
Mario Runco Jr
PERSONAL DATA: Runco was born in the Bronx, New York, on January 26, 1952. Raised in the Highbridge section of the Bronx near Yankee Stadium, his family moved to Yonkers, New York, in his early teen years. He is married to the former Susan Kay ...
Terence Henricks
Henricks was born on July 5, 1952 in Bryan, Ohio to Terry and Martha Henricks, but considers Woodville, Ohio to be his hometown. He graduated from Woodmore High School in 1970. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from ...
Franz Viehböck
Austrian electrical engineer, and was Austria's first astronaut, and thus titulated „Austronaut“ by his country's media. He visited the Mir space station in 1991 aboard Soyuz TM-13, returning aboard Soyuz TM-12 after spending just over a week in ...
Tokhtar Aubakirov
Toktar Aubakirov was born in Karkaraly region, Karagandinskaya Oblast, Kazakh SSR, which is now Kazakhstan. After graduating from the 8th grade of a secondary school he started working as a metal turner at the Temirtau foundry, whilst attending ...
Kenneth Reightler
PERSONAL DATA: Born March 24, 1951, in Patuxent River, Maryland, but considers Virginia Beach, Virginia, to be his hometown. Married to the former Maureen Ellen McHenry of Virginia Beach, Virginia. They have two grown children. Ken enjoys ...
Michael Baker
PERSONAL DATA: Born October 27, 1953, in Memphis, Tennessee, but considers Lemoore, California, to be his hometown. Three children. He enjoys tennis, swimming and hiking. EDUCATION: Graduated from Lemoore Union High School, Lemoore, ...
Millie Hughes-Fulford
PERSONAL DATA: Born December 21, 1945 in Mineral Wells, Texas. Married, her husband, George Fulford, is a retired Captain with United Airlines and they live in Hawaii. Her daughter is married and lives in Mill Valley. Recreational interests ...
Francis Gaffney
American doctor who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission as a Payload Specialist. Biography Gaffney was born June 9, 1946, in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He is married to Elizabeth (Lili) Burgo Sims of Berkeley, California. He has two ...
Sidney Gutierrez
PERSONAL DATA: Born June 27, 1951, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Married to the former Marianne Sue Cremer of Jefferson City, Missouri. They have three children. Recreational interests include camping, woodworking, and racquetball. EDUCATION: ...
Helen Sharman
Helen Patricia Sharman, CMG, OBE, HonFRSC (born 30 May 1963) is a British chemist who became the first British astronaut and the first woman to visit the Mir space station in 1991.
Anatoli Artsebarsky
He became a cosmonaut in 1985. Artsebarsky has spent almost 5 months in space on a single spaceflight. In 1991, he flew aboard Soyuz TM-12 and docked with the Mir Space Station. Artsebarsky and Sergei Krikalev stayed aboard Mir while the rest of ...
Richard Hieb
PERSONAL DATA: Born September 21, 1955, in Jamestown, North Dakota. Married to the former Jeannie Hendricks of Norfolk, Virginia. They have two children. He enjoys sports and family outings. His parents, Mr. & Mrs. Fred Hieb, reside in Jamestown, ...
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.
