SATL382G From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (4 years 4 months 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 15224 times:
Well I don't know about famous but the Astros I like are:
Non-US:
Julie Payette: Canadian astronaut & I believe head of Canadas Astronaut office. She was one of the capcoms on the shuttle flight this flight this summer. Very nice voice!! If I were in space with no ladies around hers is the voice I would want to hear on the radio.
Sergei Krikalev: The Russian astronauts Astronaut. Landed yesterday from ISS. Current record holder with 800+ days in space. 2 extended flights on ISS, 2 flights on the shuttle, 2 extended stays on Mir, + I've lost track of how many flights he's had on Soyuz.
John Young: The U.S. astronauts Astronaut. Flew the first manned flight of Gemini with Gus Grissom (Gemini 3). Then commanded his own Gemini mission (Gemini 10). Flew as command module pilot on the lunar landing dress rehearsal mission Apollo 10. Walked on the moon as Apollo 16 Commander. Commanded the first Space Shuttle orbital flight STS-1. His last flight was STS-9 the first flight of the spacelab. Has been launched 6 times, seven if you count his launch from the moon.
Story Musgrave: I just think this guy is cool. 6 space shuttle missions, 17,700 hrs flying hours, surgeon, too much other stuff to list. Read the bio, very impressive. Oh I have to point out... he started out as enlisted in the Marine Corps and worked his way up!!
Eileen Collins: 4 Space Shuttle missions to date, 2 of which she commanded ( Chandra mission and recent return to flight mission). One of the few shuttle pilots that did not come out of a fighter cockpit, she flew C-141s out of McChord before she went to test pilot school. Excellent representative of USAF.
Vio From Canada, joined Feb 2004, 1111 posts, RR: 10 Reply 4, posted (4 years 4 months 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 15224 times:
Why is the American flag bigger than the Canadian flag on her suit?
Not cool...
Even though NASA is an American company, the Canadian Space Agency contributes a lot... A Canadian Astronaut should not have the American flag on her uniform at all, let alone bigger than Canadian flag...
Sorry... but I had to point that out.
Vio
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SATL382G From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 5, posted (4 years 4 months 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 15216 times:
Quoting Vio (Reply 4): Why is the American flag bigger than the Canadian flag on her suit?
Dual citizenship maybe? I've gotten the impression that her relationship with NASA is a bit more involved than the usual non-U.S. astronaut flying on shuttle. Can't put my finger on it though, and the bio doesn't contain anything like that. Is she married to somebody at NASA? That might be it.
Vio From Canada, joined Feb 2004, 1111 posts, RR: 10 Reply 6, posted (4 years 4 months 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 15208 times:
I don't mean any disrespect to USA or NASA, but Space flights are a national pride. When Joe Schmoe will fly in space on his long weekend 100 years down the road, it may be a different story, but for now I think countries should really be proud to be taking part in space flight. This seems to me that "Canada's piggyback-riding on USA"
Thanks
Vio
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TheSonntag From Germany, joined Jun 2005, 2778 posts, RR: 31 Reply 8, posted (4 years 4 months 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 15198 times:
Surprisingly, spacflights are one of the most political issues you can think off. The first German flew to Space in 1978 on board of a russian Soyus, it was Siegmund Jähn in the GDR. This was a tremendous achievement, but due to the cold war, the western press insulted him as a "Mitesser in der Russenrakete" (parasite in the Russian rocket). Not surprisingly, the east German press praised this event as a "new milestone in our ever lasting friendship to the soviet union".
Today Siegmund J�hn is also respected in the west, also because we have a good cooperation with the Russians in space technology today...
Other well known people in space were Ulf Merbold and Thomas Reiter. But I would guess that Neil Armstrong is known by more people than these astronauts (or cosmonauts. If there is one thing German press is very precise about, even the most stupid magazines, its the distinction between calling people cosmonauts or astronauts...).
The space suit from Siegmund J�hn is shown in the German museum of contemporary history, Haus der Geschichte, in Bonn. In the same museum, which isn't a space museum at all, you can also see a brick from the moon (even though you cannot touch it).
Atmx2000 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 4576 posts, RR: 44 Reply 9, posted (4 years 4 months 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 15167 times:
Quoting Vio (Reply 6): I don't mean any disrespect to USA or NASA, but Space flights are a national pride. When Joe Schmoe will fly in space on his long weekend 100 years down the road, it may be a different story, but for now I think countries should really be proud to be taking part in space flight. This seems to me that "Canada's piggyback-riding on USA"
It appears that she is the only Canadian with the US flag, so there must be different about her status. Is she directly or part time employed by NASA, or is she a legal US resident?
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JeffSFO From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 768 posts, RR: 5 Reply 10, posted (4 years 4 months 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 15123 times:
Quoting Vio (Reply 4): Why is the American flag bigger than the Canadian flag on her suit?
Not cool...
Even though NASA is an American company, the Canadian Space Agency contributes a lot... A Canadian Astronaut should not have the American flag on her uniform at all, let alone bigger than Canadian flag...
Sorry... but I had to point that out.
Vio
If you look carefully, the Canadian flag on Chris Hadfield's space suit seems larger than the American flag on Julie Payette's, but I'm not about to go complain to my member of Congress about it.
Quoting Vio (Reply 6): This seems to me that "Canada's piggyback-riding on USA"
Whether we like it or not, they are. This is not meant to wound your considerable pride but let's be realistic, the American manned space program would go on without Canada's participation. I think it's great that the Canadian Space Agency works closely with NASA, but without NASA, where would all of those CSA astronauts have been? Answer: On the ground. The same goes for all of the countries whose citizens flew with the Soviet/Russian space program.
To keep this post on-topic, as far as name recognition goes, I'd have to guess for the United States it would be Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, Buzz Aldrin and Alan Shepard. Christa McAuliffe, who died in the Challenger explosion, would probably also get a great deal of name recognition as would Sally Ride.
I honestly don't believe that there are too many others that your average American on the street could rattle off the top of their heads. There was a Hollywood movie made about Apollo 13 that was out 10 years ago, but how many people actually remember Jim Lovell's name (as opposed to Tom Hanks)?
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N328KF From United States of America, joined May 2004, 5750 posts, RR: 7 Reply 11, posted (4 years 4 months 1 day ago) and read 15111 times:
Quoting JeffSFO (Reply 10): To keep this post on-topic, as far as name recognition goes, I'd have to guess for the United States it would be Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, Buzz Aldrin and Alan Shepard. Christa McAuliffe, who died in the Challenger explosion, would probably also get a great deal of name recognition as would Sally Ride.
In the U.S., everyone older than 30 knows who Gus Grissom is, even if they don't know White and Chaffee. I would say the likelihood of someone knowing who Grissom becomes much higher in Indiana, also.
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JeffSFO From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 768 posts, RR: 5 Reply 12, posted (4 years 4 months 23 hours ago) and read 15103 times:
Quoting N328KF (Reply 11): In the U.S., everyone older than 30 knows who Gus Grissom is, even if they don't know White and Chaffee. I would say the likelihood of someone knowing who Grissom becomes much higher in Indiana, also.
Maybe everyone over 45 or so, but over 30 is stretching it pretty thin considering the man died in 1967. The only reason I put Alan Shepard on the list is because he was the first American in space and the only Mercury astronaut to walk on the moon. However, I think a lot of people would be hard pressed to remember him.
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L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 28645 posts, RR: 70 Reply 14, posted (4 years 4 months 10 hours ago) and read 15062 times:
In Order:
Neil Armstrong
John Glenn
Buzz Aldrin
Jim Lovell (Only makes the list because of Tom Hanks)
Allen Shepard
Gus Grissom
George Jetson
Christa Mcauliff
Commander Adama
Sally Ride
Han Solo
Honorable mention
That guy that used to do the Sudafed adds.
Ken Mattingly (same deal with Lovell-the movie)
Deke Slayton
Gordo Cooper (Different Movie)
[Edited 2005-10-13 06:08:52]
OBAMA-WORST PRESIDENT EVER....Even SKOORB would be better.
Which leads to a perplexing question. The character was developed by an amercan but played by a Canadian.....so what was he?
Adama isn't from Earth. And this thread is about your country's most famous astronauts. So if you put Adama on the list, you must be from one of the 12 Colonies.
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Jwenting From Netherlands, joined Apr 2001, 10017 posts, RR: 29 Reply 22, posted (4 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 14951 times:
Well, we only have 2 and almost noone knows the name of the second one
So Wubbo Ockels it has to be, or Wockels as he's sometimes referred to after a popular potato crisp...
Kevinl1011 From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 2233 posts, RR: 35 Reply 23, posted (4 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 14938 times:
No doubt, Gus Grissom was my hero. The day of the deadly simulator fire I cried all day. It was as if everything I wanted to be went up in that fire. I think that was when I realized the good things in life, my hopes and dreams are not forever and can be taken from you in an instant. Live each day as if it were your last.
25 Thorny: In the 1960s, the most famous US astronauts were Alan Shepard and John Glenn, far and away. Just look at the number of schools named for them. Yuri G
26 GDB: Since the UK government does take part in the Astronaut part of ESA, any British nationals use other means. Helen Sharman, was the first UK one, she f
27 777: Here in italy we have 2 "most famous" astronauts: Maurizio Cheli, that flew the shuttle mission STS-75 and that is the Italian chief test pilot for th
28 Bobster2: A recent New York Times crossword puzzle asked for the first name of astronaut Collins. The only astronaut Collins I could think of was Michael. It d
29 L-188: Thanks been a while since those have been on the air. Remember in space, snot doesn't run from your nose. It was either Schirra or Astronaut Jones th
30 Vzlet: Bit of trivia: Who was the first Chinese-born person to fly in space?
31 JeffSFO: Shannon Lucid: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/lucid.html On a side note, Will Anders was a crew member on Apollo 8 in December of 1968, but he
32 Centrair: Charles "Pete" Conrad is the top of my list. - Aviator / Test Pilot / Hot Shot - Aeronautical Engineer - Astronaut (Best one ever IMO) - Worked on the
33 GDB: In his later years, with the benefit of hindsight, Conrad reckoned his greatest achievement was his Slylab flight. His crew having to rescue the cripp
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