Astronauts And Space Pioneers Codexery

A source-cited reference to astronauts and space pioneers

Astronauts And Space Pioneers (18)

• Alfred Worden — Apollo 15 command module pilot; performed first deep-space spacewalk; holds record for farthest distance from any other…
• Anousheh Ansari — First female self-funded space tourist and CEO of XPRIZE Foundation.
• Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez — First Cuban and Latin American in Earth orbit.
• Charles Duke — The youngest Moonwalker
• Charles Simonyi — Software architect, businessman, and twice a private spaceflight participant.
• Chris Hadfield — First Canadian to walk in space and command the ISS.
• Christa McAuliffe — Teacher and payload specialist who died in the Challenger disaster.
• Dennis Tito — Dennis Tito is an American who spent nearly eight days in orbit as a crew member of ISS EP-1, a visiting mission to the…
• Ed White (astronaut) — First American to walk in space; died in Apollo 1 fire.
• Edgar Mitchell — Apollo 14 astronaut who walked on the Moon and studied consciousness.
• Franklin Chang-Díaz — Costa Rican-born plasma physicist who flew seven Space Shuttle missions and now builds plasma rockets.
• Gherman Titov — Second to orbit Earth, first to sleep and vomit in space.
• Guion Bluford — First African American astronaut to fly in space.
• Harrison Schmitt — Geologist, Apollo 17 astronaut, and former U.S. senator.
• Lisa Nowak — NASA astronaut whose career ended after a felony conviction.
• Mae Jemison — First African-American woman to travel into space.
• Michael Collins (astronaut) — Apollo 11 astronaut who orbited the Moon alone.
• Phạm Tuân — First Vietnamese cosmonaut and first Asian in space.

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