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Apollo
Lunar Module Pilot
Alan Bean became the fourth person to walk on the Moon aboard Apollo 12, then spent nearly two months in orbit commanding Skylab 3 before leaving NASA to paint the Moon he had seen firsthand.
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DeceasedApollo
Lunar Module Pilot
Alan Bean became the fourth person to walk on the Moon aboard Apollo 12, then spent nearly two months in orbit commanding Skylab 3 before leaving NASA to paint the Moon he had seen firsthand.
Programs
Apollo
Spaceflights
2
Missions
Apollo 12, Skylab 3
Nationality
United States
DeceasedMercury
Pilot
Alan Shepard piloted Freedom 7, becoming the first American in space, and later commanded Apollo 14 to the Moon.
Programs
Mercury
Spaceflights
2
Missions
Freedom 7, Apollo 14
Nationality
United States
DeceasedApollo
Command Module Pilot
Alfred Worden orbited the Moon alone for three days during Apollo 15, then stepped outside his spacecraft in deep space to perform the first EVA ever conducted beyond Earth orbit.
Programs
Apollo
Spaceflights
1
Missions
Apollo 15
Nationality
United States
ActiveArtemis
Mission Specialist
Andre Douglas is assigned as a mission specialist for Artemis III.
Programs
Artemis
Spaceflights
1
Missions
Artemis III
Nationality
United States
LivingApollo
Lunar Module Pilot
Buzz Aldrin was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11 and became the second person to walk on the Moon.
Programs
Apollo
Spaceflights
2
Missions
Gemini 12, Apollo 11
Nationality
United States
LivingSpace Shuttle
Pilot
Charles Bolden piloted the mission that deployed the Hubble Space Telescope and later served as NASA Administrator from 2009 to 2017.
Programs
Space Shuttle
Spaceflights
4
Missions
STS-61-C, STS-31, STS-45, STS-60
Nationality
United States
LivingSpace Shuttle
Pilot
Charles Precourt flew on STS-71, the first Space Shuttle mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir, then commanded two more Shuttle-Mir docking missions.
Programs
Space Shuttle
Spaceflights
4
Missions
STS-55, STS-71, STS-84, STS-91
Nationality
United States
LivingApollo
Lunar Module Pilot
Charles Duke became the tenth and youngest person to walk on the Moon as Apollo 16's Lunar Module Pilot, after his voice had already become famous guiding Apollo 11's landing from Mission Control.
Programs
Apollo
Spaceflights
1
Missions
Apollo 16
Nationality
United States
DeceasedSpace Shuttle
Payload Specialist
Christa McAuliffe was a New Hampshire teacher selected to be the first participant in NASA's Teacher in Space Project, and was killed aboard Challenger just 73 seconds after launch.
Programs
Space Shuttle
Spaceflights
1
Missions
STS-51-L
Nationality
United States
ActiveArtemis
Mission Specialist
Christina Koch flew on Artemis II and became one of the first humans to travel toward the Moon since Apollo.
Programs
Artemis
Spaceflights
2
Missions
Expedition 59/60/61, Artemis II
Nationality
United States
LivingSpace Shuttle
Commander
Christopher Ferguson commanded STS-135, the 135th and final flight of the Space Shuttle program in July 2011.
Programs
Space Shuttle
Spaceflights
3
Missions
STS-115, STS-126, STS-135
Nationality
United States
DeceasedSpace Shuttle
Mission Specialist
David Brown, a former circus acrobat turned Navy flight surgeon, was on his first spaceflight aboard Columbia when the orbiter broke apart during reentry on February 1, 2003.
Programs
Space Shuttle
Spaceflights
1
Missions
STS-107
Nationality
United States
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