Flight record
5 flights on padside's record, flying from 1983 to 1995.
5Flights
140d 13hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
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.
Flights
- Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz TM-21March 14, 1995
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-42January 22, 1992
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-30May 4, 1989
- Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-51-BApril 29, 1985
- Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-7June 18, 1983 · 11:33 UTC
Born 1943-07-03