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Selection. NASA Group 19 (2004) Missions. Soyuz TMA-19 (Expedition 24 / 25) SpaceX Crew-1 (Expedition 64 / 65) Mission insignia. Shannon Walker (born June 4, 1965) is an American physicist and a NASA astronaut selected in 2004. She launched on her first mission into space on June 25, 2010, onboard Soyuz TMA-19 and spent over 163 days in space.
Expedition 65 was the 65th long duration expedition to the International Space Station.The mission began on 17 April 2021 with the departure of Soyuz MS-17 [5] and was initially commanded by NASA astronaut Shannon Walker serving as the third female ISS commander, who launched in November 2020 aboard SpaceX Crew-1 alongside NASA astronauts Michael S. Hopkins and Victor J. Glover, [6] as well as ...
Katherine Megan McArthur (born August 30, 1971) is an American oceanographer, engineer, and NASA astronaut. She has served as a Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM) for both the Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS). Megan McArthur has flown one Space Shuttle mission, STS-125 and one SpaceX mission, SpaceX Crew-2 on Crew Dragon Endeavour ...
Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. The first group of astronauts selected by NASA were for Project Mercury in April 1959. All seven were military test pilots, a requirement specified by President Eisenhower to simplify the selection process.
She returned to space for her second long duration mission on 15 November 2020, onboard SpaceX Crew-1, the first operational flight of SpaceX 's Crew Dragon spacecraft. Soyuz TMA-19 (Jun. 15, 2010) SpaceX Crew-1 (Nov. 15, 2020) 56. Liu Yang. Oct. 6, 1978. China. First Chinese woman in space.
The overnight journey for the four astronauts completed a trip that started on Nov. 15, 2020 when a SpaceX rocket carried the same four astronauts skyward, with a "Baby Yoda" plush doll in tow.
This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, ... Shannon Walker — Soyuz TMA-19, SpaceX Crew-1; Ulrich Walter — STS-55; Walter Villadei — Axiom Mission 3 (2024)
SpaceX Crew-2 →. SpaceX Crew-1[ 6 ][ 7 ] (was also known as USCV-1 or simply Crew-1) [ 8 ] was the first operational [ b ] crewed flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the maiden flight of the Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft. It was also the second crewed orbital flight launch by the United States since that of STS-135 in July 2011.