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Please click on the links below to see pictures of the astronauts I have met.

Have fun looking at the pictures and checking out the space program information. :-)

Mercury
Astronaut	Military	Mission	Spacecraft	Date	Mission Highlights
Alan Shepard - Statue	Navy	MR-3	Freedom 7	5/ 5/61	First American in Space - Suborbital
Gus Grissom	Air Force	MR-4	Liberty Bell 7	7/21/61	Suborbital - Ship sank at splashdown
John Glenn	Marines	MA-6	Friendship 7	2/20/62	First American to Orbit Earth (3 orbits)
Scott Carpenter Scott Carpenter and Gunther Wendt	Navy	MA-7	Aurora 7	5/24/62	3 orbits of Earth
Wally Schirra	Navy	MA-8	Sigma 7	10/3/62	6 orbits of Earth
Gordon Cooper	Air Force	MA-9	Faith 7	5/15/63	22 orbits - Last Mercury flight

Gemini
Mission	Astronauts	Launch & Landing	Mission Highlights
Gemini III	Gus Grissom John Young	March 23, 1965 March 23, 1965	3 orbits; First flight of new Gemini Spacecraft; Grissom named ship Molly Brown
Gemini IV	Jim McDivitt Ed White	June 3, 1965 June 7, 1965	62 orbits; Ed White becomes the First American to EVA - Spacewalk - 36 min.
Gemini V	Gordon Cooper Pete Conrad	August 21, 1965 August 29, 1965	120 orbits; Long Duration Flight - 7 days, 22 hrs, 55 min.
Gemini VI	Wally Schirra Tom Stafford	December 15, 1965 December 16, 1965	16 orbits; Rendezvous with Gemini VII
Gemini VII	Frank Borman Jim Lovell	December 4, 1965 December 18, 1965	206 orbits; Long Duration Flight - 13 days, 18 hrs, 35 min; Provide Target for Gemini VI
Gemini VIII	Neil Armstrong Dave Scott	March 16, 1966 March 17, 1966	First Rendezvous & Docking with Agena Target Vehicle Mission shortened due to dangerous uncontrolled spin.
Gemini IX	Tom Stafford Gene Cernan	June 3, 1966 June 6, 1966	47 orbits; Cernan EVA = 2 hrs 9 min; Rendezvous & docking with Agena Target Vehicle; First back-up crew to fly after Elliott See and Charlie Bassett are killed in jet crash.
Gemini X	John Young Michael Collins	July 18, 1966 July 21, 1966	43 orbits; Collins 2 EVAs = 1 hr 29 min; Rendezvous & docking with Agena Target Vehicle
Gemini XI	Pete Conrad Dick Gordon	September 12, 1966 September 15, 1966	44 orbits; Gordon EVA =33 min; Rendezvous & docking with Agena Target Vehicle
Gemini XII	Jim Lovell Buzz Aldrin	November 11, 1966 November 15, 1966	59 orbits; Aldrin 3 EVAs = 5 _ hrs; Rendezvous & docking with Agena Target Vehicle; Last Flight of the Gemini Program

Apollo
Apollo Mission	Astronauts	Launch & Landing	Mission Highlights
Apollo 1 (AS-204)	Gus Grissom Ed White Roger Chaffee	Jan. 27, 1967	Entire crew died during a test of their spacecraft (ÒPlugs-Out TestÓ) in a launch pad fire on Pad 34.
Apollo 7	Wally Schirra Donn Eisele Walt Cunningham Walt Cunningham - Spiffy!	Oct. 11, 1968 Oct. 22, 1968	First Manned Flight of Apollo CSM First Live Television from Space
Apollo 8	Frank Borman Jim Lovell Bill Anders	Dec. 21, 1968 Dec. 27, 1968	First Manned Flight of Saturn V Rocket First Manned Orbit of the Moon First Humans to see the Far Side of the Moon
Apollo 9	Jim McDivitt Dave Scott Rusty Schweickart	March 3, 1969 March 13, 1969	First Flight Of Lunar Module CSM = Gumdrop LM = Spider
Apollo 10	Gene Cernan John Young Tom Stafford	May 18, 1969 May 26, 1969	First Flight of CSM & LM in Lunar Orbit CSM = Charlie Brown LM = Snoopy
Apollo 11	Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin Michael Collins	July 16, 1969 July 24, 1969	First Man on the Moon - Neil Armstrong CSM = Columbia LM = Eagle
Apollo 12	Pete Conrad Alan Bean Dick Gordon	Nov. 14, 1969 Nov. 24, 1969	Second Moon Landing CSM = Yankee Clipper LM = Intrepid
Apollo 13	Jim Lovell Fred Haise Jack Swigert - Statue, Denver, CO Jack Swigert - Statue, Washington, DC	April 11, 1970 April 17, 1970	ÒSuccessful FailureÓ/ Oxygen Tank explodes CSM = Odyssey LM = Aquarius
Apollo 14	Alan Shepard Edgar Mitchell Stuart Roosa	Jan. 31, 1971 Feb. 9, 1971	Third Moon Landing CSM = Kitty Hawk LM = Antares
Apollo 15	Dave Scott James Irwin Al Wordon Al Wordon by VAB	July 26, 1971 Aug. 7, 1971	Fourth Moon Landing/ First Lunar Rover CSM = Endeavor LM = Falcon
Apollo 16	John Young Charlie Duke Charlie Duke at AAS Ken Mattingly	April 16, 1972 April 27, 1972	Fifth Moon Landing/ Second Lunar Rover CSM = Casper LM = Orion
Apollo 17	Gene Cernan Harrison Schmitt Ron Evans	Dec. 7, 1972 Dec. 19, 1972	Sixth and Last Moon Landing/ Last Rover CSM = America LM = Challenger

Skylab
Mission	Crew	Launch & Landing	Mission Highlights
Skylab 1	unmanned	May 14, 1973	Launch of station
Skylab 2	Pete Conrad Paul Weitz Joe Kerwin	May 25, 1973 June 22, 1973	Deployed Solar Parasol Released stuck Solar Panel 28 days on station
Skylab 3	Alan Bean Jack Lousma Owen Garriott	July 28, 1973 September 25, 1973	Continued scientific and medical experiments 59 days on station
Skylab 4	Gerald Carr Bill Pogue Ed Gibson	November 16, 1973 February 8, 1974	Observed Comet Kohutek 84 days on station

THE APOLLO SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP)

The US Apollo capsule launched from Florida and rendezvoused and docked with the USSR Soyuz capsule launched from the Soviet Union. Three astronauts (including the formerly grounded Mercury astronaut Deke Slayton) met and worked with two cosmonauts (commanded by Alexei Leonov, the First Man to EVA in 1965) for almost 2 complete days in orbit.

US Astronauts:
Tom Stafford,
Deke Slayton - Statue at the Deke Slayton Space and Bicycle Museum
and Lisa as close as she could ever get to Deke (his Driver's License!),
& Vance Brand
USSR Cosmonauts:
Alexei Leonov
& Valeri Kubasov

Space Shuttle - STS
The Space Shuttle / STS (Space Transportation System) program started in 1981 and ended in 2011.
STS - Space Transportation System
Astronaut	Mission(s)
Andy Allen	STS-46, STS-62, STS-75
Joe Allen	STS-5, STS-51A
John Blaha	STS-29, STS-33, STS-43, STS-58, STS-79, STS-81, MIR-22
Charlie Bolden	STS-31, STS-45, STS-60, STS-61C
Vance Brand	STS-5, STS-41B, STS-35
Eileen Collins	STS-63, STS-84, STS-93, STS-114
Bob Crippen Bob Crippen @ VIP	STS-1, STS-7, STS-41C, STS-41G
Sam Durrance - Payload Specialist, non-NASA	STS-35, STS-67
John Fabian	STS-7, STS-51G
Sam Gemar	STS-38, STS-48, STS-62
Hoot Gibson	STS-27, STS-41B, STS-47, STS-61C, STS-71
John Glenn	STS-95
Fred Gregory	STS-33, STS-44, STS-51B
Fred Haise	Approach and Landing Test - Enterprise
Hank Hartsfield Hank Hartsfield - outside	STS-4, STS-41D, STS-61A
Rick Hauck	STS-7, STS-26, STS-51A
Susan Helms	STS-54, STS-64, STS-78, STS-101, STS-102, EXP-2, STS-105
Jeff Hoffman	STS-35, STS-46, STS-51D, STS-61, STS-75
Doug Hurley and Sandy Magnus	(Hurley) STS-127, STS-135
Tom Jones	STS-59, STS-68, STS-80, STS-98
Mark Lee	STS-30, STS-47, STS-64, STS-82
John Lounge	STS-26, STS-35, STS-51I
Jack Lousma	STS-3
Sandy Magnus	STS-112, EXP-18, STS-119, STS-126, STS-135
John McBride	STS-41G
Bruce McCandless	STS-31, STS-41B
Mike McCulley	STS-34
Bruce Melnick	STS-41, STS-49
Dottie Metcalf	STS-131
Mike Mullane	STS-27, STS-36, STS-41D
Story Musgrave	STS-6, STS-33, STS-44, STS-51F, STS-61, STS-80
James Reilly	STS-89, STS-104, STS-117
Richard Richards	STS-28, STS-41, STS-50, STS-64
Winston Scott Winston Scott @ KSC AE	STS-72, STS-87
Rick Searfoss	STS-58, STS-76, STS-90
Rhea Seddon	STS-40, STS-51D, STS-58
Brewster Shaw	STS-9, STS-28, STS-61B
Loren Shriver	STS-31, STS-46, STS-51C
Bob Springer	STS-29. STS-38
Kathy Thornton (KT)	STS-33, STS-49, STS-61, STS-73
Charles Walker - Payload Specialist, non-NASA	STS-41D, STS-51D, STS-61B