Directory of Astronauts Resources

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This category lists pages and sites that tell about the lives of famous Astronauts. All sites are suitable for children and teens to read and use for enjoyment or for schoolwork. Biographies may be brief and sites may have several, perhaps connected by occupation, but the information contained should have the basic details, e.g., birth and death dates, some details of the life lived, major accomplishments, and so forth.

Subcategories

• Aldrin, Buzz
• Armstrong, Neil
• Bluford, Guion S. Jr.
• Bondar, Roberta
• Budarin, Nikolai M.
• Canada
• Chaffee, Roger B.
• Collins, Eileen Marie
• De Winne, Frank
• Foale, C. Michael
• Gagarin, Yuri
• Gidzenko, Yuri
• Glenn, John Herschel, Jr.
• Gordon, Richard F. Jr.
• Grissom, Virgil Ivan
• Hoshide, Akihiko
• Jemison, Mae C.
• Kaleri, Alexander
• Kondakova, Elena
• Kondratyev, Dmitri
• Kornienko, Mikhail B.
• Lovell, James A.
• MacLean, Steven Glenwood
• McAuliffe, Sharon Christa
• McNair, Ronald Ervin
• Ochoa, Ellen
• Payette, Julie
• Ride, Sally Kristen
• Russia
• Sellers, Piers
• Shepard, Alan Bartlett, Jr.
• Tereshkova, Valentina
• Tryggvason, Bjarni
• United States
• White, Edward
• Young, John W.

Resources in This Category

• Chiaki Mukai

  http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/PS/mukai.html
  Biographical data for the Japanese astronaut provided by NASA.

• CSA - Col. Chris A. Hadfield

  http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/biohadfield.asp
  Includes information on his education, affiliations and experience.

• Dirk Frimout - Wikipedia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Frimout
  Overview of the Belgian astronaut.

• Dr. Franklin Chang-Díaz

  http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/diaz.html
  Biography for the astronaut born in San José, Costa Rica.

• Dr. Robert Thirsk

  http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/biothirsk.asp
  Includes information on his education, affiliations and experience. Born in New Westminster, British Columbia.

• ESA - André Kuipers

  http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESAMWUZUMOC_astronauts_0.html
  Personal data, spaceflight experience and education for the astronaut born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

• ESA - Christer Fuglesang

  http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESAOUUZUMOC_astronauts_0.html
  Personal data, spaceflight experience and education for the astronaut born in Stockholm, Sweden.

• ESA - Claude Nicollier

  http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESA06VZUMOC_astronauts_0.html
  Personal data, spaceflight experience and education for the astronaut born in Vevey, Switzerland.

• ESA - Hans Schlegel

  http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESAKDVZUMOC_astronauts_0.html
  Personal data, spaceflight experience and education for the astronaut born in Überlingen, Germany.

• ESA - Jean-Francois Clervoy

  http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESA1BUZUMOC_astronauts_0.html
  Personal data, spaceflight experience and education for the French astronaut.

• ESA - Léopold Eyharts

  http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESASFUZUMOC_astronauts_0.html
  Personal data, spaceflight experience and education for the astronaut born in Biarritz, France.

• ESA - Paolo Nespoli

  http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESAN0VZUMOC_astronauts_0.html
  Personal data, spaceflight experience and education for the astronaut born in Milan, Italy.

• ESA - Pedro Duque

  http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESAREUZUMOC_astronauts_0.html
  Personal data, spaceflight experience and education for the astronaut born in Madrid, Spain.

• ESA - Reinhold Ewald

  http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESAOHUZUMOC_astronauts_0.html
  Personal data, spaceflight experience and education for the astronaut born in Mönchengladbach, Germany.

• ESA - Roberto Vittori

  http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESAWIVZUMOC_astronauts_0.html
  Personal data, spaceflight experience and education for the astronaut born in Viterbo, Italy.

• ESA - Thomas Reiter

  http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESAYBVZUMOC_astronauts_0.html
  Personal data, spaceflight experience and education for the astronaut born in Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

• Koichi Wakata

  http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/wakata.html
  Biographical data for the Japanese astronaut provided by NASA.

• Mamoru Mohri

  http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/mohri.html
  Biographical data for the Japanese astronaut provided by NASA.

• Naoko Yamazaki

  http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/yamazaki-n.html
  Biographical data for the Japanese astronaut provided by NASA.

• Nicholas J. M. Patrick

  http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/patrick.html
  Biographical data for the British astronaut provided by NASA.

• Oleg Dmitievich Kononenko

  http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/kononenko.html
  Biographical data for the Cosmonaut provided by NASA.

• Satoshi Furukawa

  http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/furukawa-s.html
  Biographical data for the Japanese astronaut provided by NASA.

• Soichi Noguchi

  http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/noguchi.html
  Biographical data for the Japanese astronaut provided by NASA.

• Story Musgrave, M.D.

  http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/mus0pro-1
  An American astronaut who has flown six missions into space.

• Takao Doi

  http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/doi.html
  Biographical data for the Japanese astronaut provided by NASA.

• The Apollo Astronauts

  http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/astronauts/
  Contains pictures of all the Apollo astronauts, the men who went to the moon. Features information on mission launch dates.

• Valentina Tereshkova

  http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/tereshkova.html
  Biography of the cosmonaut born in the Yaroslavl Region of Russia.

• Valery Grigorievich Korzun

  http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/korzun.html
  Biographical data for the Cosmonaut provided by NASA.

• Victor Mikhailovich Afanasyev

  http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/afanasyev-vm.html
  Biographical data for the Cosmonaut provided by NASA.

• Vladimir Nikolaevich Dezhurov

  http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/dezhurov.html
  Biographical data for the Cosmonaut provided by NASA.

• Williams, Dave

  http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/biowilliams.asp
  Includes information on his education, affiliations and experience.

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