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Who is the greatest astronaut ever?

Who is the greatest astronaut ever?

Notable astronauts

name mission accomplishment
Yury Gagarin Vostok 1 first man in space
Alan Shepard Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7) first American in space
Gherman Titov Vostok 2 first to spend more than one day in space; youngest person (25 years old) in space
John Glenn Mercury-Atlas 6 (Friendship 7) first American in orbit

Who was the most talented astronaut?

Buzz Aldrin
Awards Air Force Distinguished Service Medal (2) Distinguished Flying Cross (2) Air Medal (3) Presidential Medal of Freedom NASA Distinguished Service Medal NASA Exceptional Service Medal
Space career
NASA astronaut
Rank Colonel, USAF

Who is the smartest astronaut in the world?

In 1996 he became only the second astronaut to fly on six spaceflights, and he is the most formally educated astronaut with six academic degrees. Musgrave is the only astronaut to fly aboard all five Space Shuttles.

Who is the least famous astronaut?

Michael Collins, 90, was part of the three-member crew on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing mission in 1969. Unlike Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, he never walked on the moon. Collins stayed behind and piloted the command module as it circled above. Because of that, Collins is often called the “forgotten astronaut.”

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Who is the most popular space hero?

Yuri Gagarin
Awards Hero of the Soviet Union Order of Lenin Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
Space career
Soviet cosmonaut
Rank Colonel (Polkovnik), Air Forces

What illness did Fred Haise have?

kidney infection
It was a touch-and-go situation for several days as the astronauts struggled with the cold and crippled spacecraft, but they arrived home alive on April 17. Haise came down with a kidney infection, but suffered no long-term ill effects from the ordeal.

Who was the third man with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin?

Michael Collins
Michael Collins, ‘Third Man’ of the Moon Landing, Dies at 90. Orbiting dozens of miles above the lunar surface, he kept solitary watch of the Apollo command module as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin embarked for the moon.

Who is the most famous person in NASA?

More than 550 people from 36 countries have left Earth, although only 64 of them have been women. Among NASA’s most famous astronauts are Neil Armstrong and Alan Shepard, but many more Americans—and even a small chimp—have been celebrated “firsts,” record-setters, and heroes.