Bridges received an honorary doctorate from Purdue in Mark Brown served as a mission specialist on STS in , which carried department of defense payloads and a number of secondary payloads. Brown became an astronaut in STS , John Casper was selected for astronaut training in and has since logged more than hours in space.
He completed his first mission in , serving as pilot of STS The next year, Casper oversaw two weeks of microgravity research as commander of STS And on his final shuttle mission — STS in — he served as commander on a crew that performed a record number of rendezvous sequences. STS , 54 , 62 , Eugene Cernan was selected for the astronaut program in On the Gemini 9 mission in , he became the second American to walk in space.
And in , as commander of Apollo 17, Cernan landed a spacecraft on the moon and then spent a record amount of time on the lunar surface, becoming the last person to leave his footprints on the moon. Tragically, during a simulated launch of the spacecraft in at Cape Kennedy, Fla.
He piloted STS in — the first shuttle flight flown after the Challenger accident. Covey became an astronaut in STSI , 26 , 38 , Feustel logged nearly 13 days in space on the mission and performed three spacewalks totaling 20 hours and 58 minutes.
Feustel joined fellow Purdue grad Scott Tingle on the International Space Station for Expedition 55, and commanded Expedition 56, where he became the third all-time astronaut for time spent on spacewalks. He served as a pilot on STS in , which carried a department of defense payload. Grissom piloted the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft on a minute suborbital flight in , becoming the second American in space.
On Jan. A veteran of four space flights, Gregory Harbaugh became an astronaut in He did a four-hour, minute spacewalk as a flight engineer on STS in , which deployed a NASA tracking and data relay satellite. He also was responsible for the in-flight operation of the docking system aboard STS in , the first docking with the Russian space station Mir.
On this mission, he participated in two spacewalks that totaled 14 hours and one minute. STS , 54 , 71 , Selected for astronaut training in , Michael McCulley has logged a total of hours and 41 minutes in space. Beth Moses made history in with Virgin Galactic, becoming the first female commercial astronaut. During her test flight on SpaceShipTwo, she became the first person ever to unbuckle and float around during a suborbital spaceflight.
She made history again in , joining fellow Purdue AAE alum Sirisha Bandla on the first ever fully-crewed commercial spaceflight. Her experience included mechanical design and analysis, systems engineering, manned submersible testing and certification, and vehicle operations. She participated in 11 research cruises aboard research vessels as a mechanical engineer and data processor. Gary Payton was selected for the U. By the end of the mission, Payton had traveled over 1.
Selected for astronaut training in , Mark Polansky has since logged more than hours in space on three space flights. STS , , Audrey Powers joined Blue Origin in and oversees all New Shepard flight operations, vehicle maintenance, and launch, landing, and ground support infrastructure.
Audrey worked as an engineer for almost a decade before becoming a lawyer. Blue Origin NS Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon when he was 38 years old. He flew in his Apollo capsule that launched on a Saturn V rocket before stepping foot on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, No woman has had the opportunity to travel to the Moon yet.
The U. Artemis 1 is expected to take flight in late or early Artemis 2 is a flyby mission around the Moon much like Apollo 8. The second Artemis mission will have a four-person crew three Americans and one Canadian astronaut. Artemis 3 is the first lunar landing mission under the program. The program currently commits to sending the first woman and next man to the Moon. The space agency has named a group of 18 astronauts who will be eligible for early Moon missions.
Currently, half of the Artemis astronauts named are women. Onboard will be a professional cosmonaut, Alexander Misurkin, and two spaceflight participants, Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano. You might recognize the first tourist flying because Maezawa also has seats purchased on a SpaceX Starship for a trip around the Moon.
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How many people are in space right now? Zac Hall - Nov. How many people are in space? There are currently 10 people in space right now. Updated November 10, Who was the first person in space? Artemis NASA's Artemis program is an attempt to land humans on the moon for the first time in almost 50 years.
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