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Robert Pearlman
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posted 09-01-2010 03:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Hart Sastrowardoyo:
...only two U.S. astronauts chosen during the shuttle era (Groups 8 through 19) to make their first flight not on the shuttle, but on the Soyuz.
As written, Mike Fincke also fits into this category.

Assuming neither is assigned to a possible STS-135 (an impossibility for Walker, who is currently in space), Walker's and Creamer's record will be as the only astronauts selected during the shuttle era (Groups 8 through 19) to fly in space but not fly on the shuttle.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 10-11-2010 10:09 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
355 people flew on the space shuttle (Gennadi Strekalov and Yuri Gidzenko never launched on an orbiter, but landed on one);
The NASA Authorization Act of 2010 (as being signed by President Obama today) includes a section on the "Sense of Congress on the Space Shuttle Program," wherein this statement appears:
The Space Shuttle has carried more than 355 people from 16 nations into space.
Even taking the possible addition of STS-135 into account, the statement still reads wrong; the count is 355, not "more than."

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posted 10-04-2011 03:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for space4u   Click Here to Email space4u     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It looks like there were 49 women who flew on the shuttle (including Christa McAuliffe).

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With the shuttle-era concluded, which astronaut flew the most missions onboard a space shuttle (my guess: Jerry L Ross with 7 missions: STS-61B, 27, 37, 55, 74, 88 and STS-110)?

Hart Sastrowardoyo
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posted 08-03-2012 09:14 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Hart Sastrowardoyo   Click Here to Email Hart Sastrowardoyo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
And Franklin Chang-Diaz, also with seven missions: 61-C, 34R, 46, 60, 75, 91 and 111.

Hart Sastrowardoyo
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Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin are the only astronauts or cosmonauts to have launched on the shuttle but not landed, with Budarin having two shuttle launches and no shuttle landings to his credit.

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posted 04-28-2013 10:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Hart Sastrowardoyo   Click Here to Email Hart Sastrowardoyo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Curt Brown says he has the most amount of flights in the least amount of time.
Brown had a storied career as an astronaut, making six space shuttle missions that began with Endeavour in 1992. Atlantis followed, Endeavour again, then three visits to orbit on Discovery.

"I have the record for the most flights in the least amount of time," said Brown, 57, who retired from NASA in 2000.


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