Career record
Flights
5
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
140d 13h
Career EVA time
under a minute
Spacewalks
0
Biography
Norman Earl Thagard (born July 3, 1943), (Capt, USMC, Ret.), is an American scientist and former U.S. Marine Corps officer and naval aviator and NASA astronaut. He is the first American to ride to space on board a Russian vehicle, and can be considered the first American cosmonaut. He did on this on March 14, 1995, in the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft for the Russian Mir-18 mission.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Launches
- Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz TM-21 — Research Cosmonaut · Success · March 14, 1995
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-42 — Mission Specialist · Success · January 22, 1992
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-30 — Mission Specialist · Success · May 4, 1989
- Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-51-B — Mission Specialist · Success · April 29, 1985
- Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-7 — Mission Specialist · Success · June 18, 1983 · 11:33 UTC
Born 1943-07-03