His technical assignments included: scientific equipment operator for high altitude research on the WB-57F aircraft ( 1980 – 1981 ); astronaut medical support for the first four Shuttle missions ( 1980 – 1982 ); astronaut office representative for Extravehicular Mobility Unit ( spacesuit ) and Extravehicular Activity ( EVA ) procedures and development, including thermal vacuum testing of the suit ( 1981 – 1984 ); astronaut office representative for the Payload Assist Module ( PAM-D ) procedures and development ( 1982 – 1983 ); astronaut office representative for Shuttle Mission Simulator ( SMS ) development ( 1983 ); support crewman for STS-8 ; CAPCOM for STS-8 and STS-9 ; Remote Manipulator System ( RMS ) hardware and software development team ( 1983 ); Manned Maneuvering Unit ( MMU ) development team ( 1983 ); Deputy Director of NASA Government-furnished and Contractor-furnished Equipment ( 1982 – 1983 ); Chief of Astronaut Public Appearances ( 1985 – 1987 ); Head, Astronaut Office Space Station Manned Systems Division, and Health Maintenance Facility ( 1987 – 1989 ); Astronaut Office representative on space crew selection and retention standards for Space Station ( 1989 – 1991 ).

In 1978, Cintron read a recruitment announcement for the first Mission Specialist positions in the Astronaut Corps while at Johns Hopkins still completing her PhD research work.

* March 14 – Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a Russian launch vehicle ( the Soyuz TM-21 ), lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

White was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1993 and the National Aviation Hall of Fame on July 18, 2009.

He was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990.

In 1990, Glenn was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame.

* Mark Kelly ( born 1964 ), astronaut who first went into space as the pilot for STS-108 Endeavour ( December 5 – 17, 2001 ), and returned to space with STS-121 in 2006 as the pilot ; His twin brother, Scott Kelly, is also in the Astronaut Corps.

* Jerry Alan Whittredge, dubbed the " Great Astronaut Impersonator ", arrested in 1998 after talking his way into NASA's Mission Control during a Space Mission, being given VIP tours of two Navy bases and receiving information about the space shuttle.

In 2004, Scobee was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame.

* Inducted into six Aviation and Astronaut Halls of Fame

978-0-312-85918-3 ), Deke Slayton, Chief of the Astronaut Corps, felt Scott, Worden and Irwin had embarrassed NASA and the Apollo program by trying to profit in such way from the hard work that had gone into the Apollo 15 mission, and violated NASA rules.

After unsuccessfully applying for NASA's second and third astronaut selections, Swigert was accepted into the astronaut corps as part of NASA Astronaut Group 5, in April 1966.

The plan was for him to move to the rear of the spacecraft and strap himself into the Air Force's Astronaut Maneuvering Unit ( AMU ).

He was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 1991 and the U. S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2001.

Astronaut John Glenn took 400 million " Amazing Sea-Monkeys " into space with him in 1998.

He was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 1997, and inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2010.

He was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame on June 8, 2010, four days after the first successful launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.

In 2009, Wetherbee was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame.

Franklin Chang Díaz was inducted into the NASA Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 5, 2012 in a ceremony that took place the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

In 2004, Sullivan was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame.

* Inducted into the U. S. Astronaut Hall of Fame ( 2006 ).

* 2009 inductee into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame.

In December, 2001, he was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Florida.

* Inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame ( 2004 )

Astronaut N. Jan Davis moved the wrist joint on the Remote Manipulator System ( RMS ) arm to try to point WSF's Horizon Sensor into the Sun in an attempt to warm up the sensor's electronics package.

Today, he looked like an Astronaut who had left his vitamin pills on the bureau and spent six months in space: hollow eyes, hollow cheeks, hollow stomach.

* 1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.

* 1995 – Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.

* Christer Fuglesang, Astronaut, first Swedish citizen in space

* June 3 – Gemini 4: Astronaut Edward Higgins White makes the first U. S. space walk.

He was the second American to fly in space, and the first member of the NASA Astronaut Corps to fly in space twice.

) While not a member of the NASA Astronaut Corps, McAuliffe was to be part of the STS-51-L crew, and would conduct experiments and teach lessons from space.

Astronaut taking a hot bath in the crew quarters of the Orbital Workshop ( OWS ) of the Skylab space station cluster in Earth orbit.

Joining NASA in 1962, Young was the first of the Astronaut Group 2 to fly in space.

Mitchell's doctoral thesis on space vehicle guidance on display at the Astronaut Hall of FameMitchell was born in Hereford, Texas.

While awaiting space flight assignment, Thomas supported shuttle launch and landing operations as an Astronaut Support Person ( ASP ) at the Kennedy Space Center.

Astronaut Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space when she and David C. Leestma performed a 3-hour EVA on 11 October 1984, demonstrating the Orbital Refueling System ( ORS ) and proving the feasibility of refueling satellites in orbit.

On June 28, 2012, Lu, with Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schewickart and Dr. G. Scott Hubbard, Astrophysicist and Author from Stanford University launched the B612 Foundation to build and operate the first privately funded deep space mission called SENTINEL.

His technical assignments since then have included: EVA, or " space walks ", RMS ( Remote Manipulator System, or " robotic arm "), and chase team ; support crewman for STS 41-B, STS 41-C and STS 51-A ; spacecraft communicator ( CAPCOM ) during STS 41-B, STS 41-C, STS 41-D, STS 51-A and STS 51-D ; Chief of the Mission Support Branch ; member of the 1990 Astronaut Selection Board ; Acting Deputy Chief of the Astronaut Office, Chief of the Astronaut Office EVA and Robotics Branch, and Astronaut Office Branch Chief for Kennedy Space Center Operations Support.

Paul William Richards ( b. May 20, 1964 in Scranton, Pennsylvania ) is an American engineer and a former NASA Astronaut.

Expedition 8 Commander and NASA Station Science Officer Michael Foale, Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri and ESA Astronaut Pedro Duque docked the Soyuz TMA-3 with the International Space Station at 07: 15: 58 UTC on 20 October 2003.

The Expedition Seven crew — along with European Space Agency Astronaut Pedro Duque -- landed back on Earth on 27 October 2003 at Kazakhstan at 02: 41: 20 UTC, after undocking from the International Space Station in their Soyuz spacecraft at 23: 17 UTC.

In particular, the singles " One More Astronaut " and " Another Sunday " pushed the band into the commercial elite in Canada, the former cracking the Top 20 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart in the U. S. Subsequent singles " Used to Be Alright " and " Raspberry " also made solid showings on radio and video.

Astronaut Armstrong was the first human to set foot ( his left, specifically ) on the surface of Earth's Moon on July 20, 1969, as part of the Apollo 11 space mission.