Eileen Marie Collins is a retired NASA astronaut and United States Air Force (USAF) colonel. A former flight instructor and test pilot,Collins was the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and the first to command a Space Shuttle mission.
Kenneth Dwane "Sox" Bowersox is a United States Navy officer,and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five Space Shuttle launches and an extended stay aboard the International Space Station. When he launched on STS-73 at the age of 38 years and 11 months,he became the youngest person to command a Space Shuttle.
Sandra Hall Magnus is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She returned to Earth with the crew of STS-119 Discovery on March 28,2009,after having spent 134 days in orbit. She was assigned to the crew of STS-135,the final mission of the Space Shuttle. She is also a licensed amateur radio operator with the call sign KE5FYE. From 2012 until 2018 Magnus was the executive director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Piers John Sellers was a British-American meteorologist,NASA astronaut and Director of the Earth Science Division at NASA/GSFC. He was a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions. Sellers attended Cranbrook School,Cranbrook,Kent,United Kingdom,until 1973,and achieved a bachelor's degree in ecological science from the University of Edinburgh in 1976. In 1981 he gained a doctorate in biometeorology from the University of Leeds. In 2011,Sellers retired from the NASA Astronaut Corps.
Jerry Lynn Ross is a retired United States Air Force officer,engineer,and a former NASA astronaut. Ross is a veteran of 7 Space Shuttle missions,making him the joint record holder for most spaceflights.
STS-112 was an 11-day Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space ShuttleAtlantis. Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched on 7 October 2002 at 19:45 UTC from the Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B to deliver the 28,000 pound Starboard 1 (S1) truss segment to the Space Station. Ending a 4.5-million-mile journey,Atlantis landed at 15:44 UTC on 18 October 2002 on runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility.
Robert Lee Curbeam Jr. is a former NASA astronaut and captain in the United States Navy. He currently holds the record for the most spacewalks during a single spaceflight,accomplished during the STS-116 mission,when Curbeam completed four spacewalks.
Robert Donald Cabana is a former Associate Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),NASA astronaut and non-flight-eligible management astronaut),and is a veteran of four Space Shuttle flights. He served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1994 to 1997 and as director of the John F. Kennedy Space Center from 2008 to 2021. He is also a former naval flight officer and naval aviator in the United States Marine Corps.
Brian Duffy is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and a former NASA astronaut. He flew aboard four Space Shuttle missions.
Patrick Graham Forrester is a NASA astronaut,engineer,and former Chief of the Astronaut Office. He is a retired United States Army colonel and Army aviator. He is married and has two children.
Frederick Drew Gregory is a former United States Air Force pilot,military engineer,test pilot,and NASA astronaut as well as former NASA Deputy Administrator. He also served briefly as NASA Acting Administrator in early 2005,covering the period between the departure of Sean O'Keefe and the swearing in of Michael D. Griffin.
Linda Maxine Godwin is an American scientist and retired NASA astronaut. Godwin joined NASA in 1980 and became an astronaut in July 1986. She retired in 2010. During her career,Godwin completed four space flights and logged over 38 days in space. Godwin also served as the assistant to the director for exploration,Flight Crew Operations Directorate at the Johnson Space Center. Since retiring from NASA,she accepted the position of professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Missouri.
Steven Wayne Lindsey is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. Lindsey served as Chief of the NASA Astronaut Office from September 2006 until October 2009.
Mark Lewis "Roman" Polansky is an American aerospace engineer and research pilot and a former NASA astronaut. Polansky received the nickname "Roman" as a joke,because he shares a last name with director Roman Polanski. He flew on three Space Shuttle missions:STS-98,STS-116,and STS-127 and was first person of Korean ancestry in space.
Steven Lee Smith,is an American technology executive and a former NASA astronaut,being a veteran of four space flights covering 16 million miles and seven spacewalks,totaling 49 hours and 25 minutes. Smith’s spacewalk time places him in 14th on the all-time American and World spacewalk duration lists.
Rex Joseph Walheim is a retired United States Air Force officer,engineer and NASA astronaut. He flew three Space Shuttle missions,STS-110,STS-122,and STS-135. Walheim logged over 566 hours in space,including 36 hours and 23 minutes of spacewalk (EVA) time. He was assigned as mission specialist and flight engineer on STS-135,the final Space Shuttle mission.
STS-117 was a Space Shuttle mission flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis,launched from pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center on June 8,2007. Atlantis lifted off from the launch pad at 19:38 EDT. Damage from a hail storm on February 26,2007,had previously caused the launch to be postponed from an originally-planned launch date of March 15,2007. The launch of STS-117 marked the 250th orbital human spaceflight. It was also the heaviest flight of the Space Shuttle.
STS-120 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that launched on October 23,2007,from the Kennedy Space Center,Florida. The mission is also referred to as ISS-10A by the ISS program. STS-120 delivered the Harmony module and reconfigured a portion of the station in preparation for future assembly missions. STS-120 was flown by Space ShuttleDiscovery,and was the twenty-third Space Shuttle mission to the ISS.
Randolph James "Komrade" Bresnik is a retired officer in the United States Marine Corps and an active NASA astronaut. A Marine Aviator by trade,Bresnik was selected as a member of NASA Astronaut Group 19 in May 2004. He first launched to space on STS-129,then served as flight engineer for Expedition 52,and as ISS commander for Expedition 53.
NASA Astronaut Group 15 was a group of 23 NASA astronauts announced on December 8,1994. Group members adopted The Flying Escargot as their moniker,in reference to two members of the group being from France. The group featured ten pilots,nine mission specialists,and four international mission specialist trainees from France,Canada and Japan.
