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<html> <head> <title>Occupation: Astronaut</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Occupation: Astronaut LISTS <table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_c"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/320/000023251/">Buzz Aldrin</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jan-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Second man on the Moon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/488/000022422/">Neil Armstrong</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Aug-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>First man on the Moon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/591/000042465/">Alan Bean</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Mar-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Apollo 12, Skylab Mission II astronaut</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/757/000128373/">Charles F. Bolden, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Aug-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Four-time shuttle astronaut</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/260/000023191/">Frank Borman</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Mar-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>First to circumnavigate moon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/027/000098730/">Scott Carpenter</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-May-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Mercury astronaut</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/792/000023723/">Gene Cernan</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Mar-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Last man on the moon (Apollo 17)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/348/000023279/">Michael Collins</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Oct-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Apollo 11 command module pilot</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/960/000043831/">Pete Conrad</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jun-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jul-1999</tt></td> <td>Apollo 12 mission commander, 3rd on moon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/804/000066606/">Gordon Cooper</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Mar-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-2004</tt></td> <td>Mercury 7 and Gemini 5 astronaut</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/072/000136661/">Dick Covey</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Aug-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Shuttle astronaut</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/578/000082332/">Robert Crippen</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Sep-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Pilot of first shuttle mission, STS-1</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/355/000163863/">Charles Duke</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Oct-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>10th to walk on the Moon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/666/000026588/">Yuri Gagarin</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Mar-1968</tt></td> <td>First person to orbit earth</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/983/000130593/">Jake Garn</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Oct-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Senator from Utah, 1974-93</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/235/000137821/">Owen K. Garriott</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Skylab, Spacelab astronaut</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/872/000022806/">John Glenn</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jul-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>First American to orbit earth</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/243/000108916/">Gus Grissom</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Apr-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jan-1967</tt></td> <td>Second American in space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/384/000349334/">Fred Haise</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Nov-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 13</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/342/000174817/">Bernard A. Harris, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jun-1956</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>First black astronaut to spacewalk</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/351/000163859/">James Irwin</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Aug-1991</tt></td> <td>8th to walk on the Moon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/064/000126683/">Mae C. Jemison</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Oct-1956</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>First African-American woman in space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/060/000086799/">Vladimir Komarov</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Mar-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Apr-1967</tt></td> <td>Pilot of Soyuz 1 plunged to his death</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/802/000023733/">Alexei Leonov</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-May-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>First man to walk in space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/269/000104954/">Yang Liwei</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jun-1965</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>First manned Chinese spaceflight</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/262/000023193/">Jim Lovell</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Mar-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Apollo 13</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/653/000055488/">Shannon Lucid</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jan-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Five space shuttle flights</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/114/000032018/">Christa McAuliffe</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Sep-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1986</tt></td> <td>First teacher in space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/294/000168787/">James A. McDivitt</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jun-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Commander, Gemini 4 and Apollo 9</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/496/000051343/">Michael Melvill</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Nov-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>First private astronaut in space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/352/000163860/">Edgar Mitchell</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Sep-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>6th to walk on the Moon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/500/000025425/">Story Musgrave</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Aug-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Spent 1281 hours in space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/285/000032189/">Bill Nelson</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Sep-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Senator from Florida</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/778/000051625/">Andrian Nikolayev</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Sep-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jul-2004</tt></td> <td>Third Russian cosmonaut in space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/621/000162135/">Lisa Nowak</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-May-1963</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>According to lawyer, no diaper</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/037/000163545/">Ellen Ochoa</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-May-1958</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>First hispanic female astronaut</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/687/000212051/">Scott E. Parazynski</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jul-1961</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Shuttle astronaut, summited Everest</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/141/000354076/">Judith Resnik</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Apr-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1986</tt></td> <td>Challenger astronaut</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/165/000025090/">Sally Ride</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jul-2012</tt></td> <td>First American woman in space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/941/000022875/">Wally Schirra</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Mar-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-May-2007</tt></td> <td>Commander of Apollo 7</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/853/000023784/">Jack Schmitt</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jul-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>12th Man on the Moon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/878/000023809/">Rusty Schweickart</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Oct-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Apollo 9 Lunar Module pilot</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/353/000163861/">David Scott</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Commander, Apollo 15</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/841/000099544/">Alan Shepard</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Nov-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-1998</tt></td> <td>First American in space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/403/000119046/">Deke Slayton</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Mar-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jun-1993</tt></td> <td>Original Mercury 7 astronaut</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/954/000060774/">Thomas P. Stafford</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Sep-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Gemini 6 & 9, Apollo 10, Apollo-Soyuz</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/935/000174413/">Kathryn D. Sullivan</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Oct-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Columbus Center for Science and Industry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/388/000349338/">Jack Swigert</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Aug-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Dec-1982</tt></td> <td>Command Module Pilot on Apollo 13</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/073/000136662/">Norman Thagard</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jul-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Shuttle astronaut</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/573/000169066/">Richard H. 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