In 1982, he was chosen to train for spaceflight in the Soviet Union's Intercosmos program. Malhotra served as backup for Rakesh Sharma on the Soyuz T-11 mission which launched the first Indian into space, but never went to space himself
British-Australian astronomer and photographer, who has conquered the depths of cosmos with stunning photography taken from the Anglo-Australian Telescope in Australia
Navy seal, born 1945, one of the four frogmen to help recover the Apollo 11 crew and their returned capsule. The strongest swimmer, he swam with an equipment bag for the collected moon rocks to be taken out in
Born 18 March 1970 in St. Wendel, Saarland, German European Space Agency astronaut and materials scientist, who was selected in 2015 to take part in space training. In September 2021 scheduled for SpaceX Crew-3
Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. He is co - laureate of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Jim Peebles and Didier Queloz
Sharon Christa McAuliffe (September 2, 1948 - January 28, 1986) was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, and was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
In 1985, she was selected from more than 11,000 ap
(October 21, 1950 - January 28, 1986) was a physicist and NASA astronaut. McNair died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L
Apollo 11: He worked on life-support systems and trained the astronauts in putting on and taking off their spacesuits. He developed the Lunar Surface Checklist
ABMA/NASA: Engineer, one of the first Americans to join Wernher von Brauns rocket team (Redstone project, Explorer I, Jupiter). Helped build the Saturn V, as chief of Guidance and Control Division
JoAnn Hardin Morgan (December 4, 1940) is an American aerospace engineer who was a trailblazer in the United States space flight program as the first female engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) John F. Kennedy Space Center
Professional astronaut and Chief Astronaut Instructor at Virgin Galactic. She is the first female to work in space as a member of the flight crew on a commercial vehicle on Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity flight on February 22, 2019
American cartoonist, author, engineer, anf creator of the award-winning webcomic xkcd. He has written three books: What If?, Thing Explainer, and How To. Was also contract programmer and roboticist for NASA