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Spectrum Chart - 510 : Astronauts
1. Kalpana Chawla - Kalpana Chawla was an
Indo-American astronaut and the first woman of Indian origin in
space. She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission
specialist and primary robotic arm operator. Kalpana Chawla died in
the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster which occurred on February 1,
2003, when the Columbia disintegrated over Texas during re-entry into
the Earth's atmosphere, with the death of all seven crew members.
2. Rakesh Sharma - Rakesh Sharma is a
former Indian Air Force pilot who flew aboard Soyuz T-11, launched
April 3, 1984, as part of the Intercosmos programme. Sharma was the
first Indian to travel in space. He spent 7 days 21 hours and 40
minutes aboard the Salyut 7 during which his team conducted
scientific and technical studies which included 43 experimental
sessions. His work was mainly in the fields of bio-medicine and
remote sensing.
3. Sunita Williams - Sunita Williams is an
American astronaut and United States Navy officer of Indian-Slovenian
descent. She holds the records for total spacewalks by a woman
(seven) and most spacewalk time for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes).
Williams was assigned to the International Space Station as a member
of Expedition 14 and Expedition 15. In 2012, she served as a flight
engineer on Expedition 32 and then commander of Expedition 33.
4. Buzz Aldrin - Buzz Aldrin is an
American engineer and former astronaut. As the Lunar Module Pilot on
Apollo 11, he was one of the first two humans to land on the Moon and
the second person to walk on it. He set foot on the Moon at 03:15:16
on July 21, 1969 (UTC), following mission commander Neil Armstrong.
He is a former U.S. Air Force officer with the Command Pilot rating.
5. Neil Armstrong - Neil Armstrong was an
American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was
also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot and university
professor. Armstrong's second and last spaceflight was as commander
of Apollo 11, the first manned Moon landing mission in July 1969.
Armstrong and Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar
surface and spent two and a half hours outside the spacecraft.
Armstrong died in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 25, 2012, at the age of
82, after complications from coronary artery bypass surgery.
6. Michael Collins - Michael Collins is an
American former astronaut and test pilot. He was the Command Module
Pilot for Apollo 11. While he stayed in orbit around the Moon, Neil
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left in the Lunar Module to make the first
manned landing on its surface. He is one of 24 people to have flown
to the Moon.
7. Alan Bartlett Shepard - Alan Bartlett
Shepard was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, one of
the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts and businessman, who in
May 1961 made the first manned Mercury flight. He became the second
person, and the first American, to travel into space and the first
person to manually control the orientation of his spacecraft. Ten
years later, at age 47 and the oldest astronaut in the program,
Shepard commanded the Apollo 14 mission (1971). He became the fifth
and oldest person to walk on the Moon.
8. Valentina Tereshkova - Valentina
Tereshkova is a retired Russian cosmonaut and politician. She is the
first woman to have flown in space to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963.
She completed 48 orbits of the Earth in her three days in space.
9. Yuri Gagarin - Yuri Gagarin was a
Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey
into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of
the Earth on 12 April 1961. Vostok 1 marked his only spaceflight, but
he served as backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission. Gagarin died in 1968
when the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting crashed.
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