Astronaut Biographies

• A complete and user-friendly site at the Johnson Space Center with bios of current astronauts, astronaut candidates, former astronauts, and payload specialists.

Other Astronaut Information

• Astronaut Factbook Look up everything from an astronaut's scouting record to how many astronauts were born in each state. The Johnson Space Center currently maintains this Factbook in a pdf format and this link is to a copy of this file on our server.
• World Spaceflight News, a private group, has compiled a useful spreadsheet with information about current and former astronauts as of 1999.
• Chronology of Space Missions Involving Navy and Marine Corps, 1961 - April 1981.

Steve Garber, NASA History Web Curator
For further information email histinfo@hq.nasa.gov