 7L2NJY |
Dr Mamoru Mohri | Japanese astronaut. |
 DD6CF |
Reinhard Alfred Furrer | German Space Agency astronaut. Payload specialist of STS-61A the West German D-1 Spacelab mission (1985, the last successful Space Shuttle Challenger mission, also the largest crew, 8 in total, 3 were licenced Amateurs). First mission where payload activities were controlled from outside the US. |
 DG2KM |
Dr Ernst Willi Messerschmid | German Space Agency astronaut. Payload specialist of STS-61A the West German D-1 Spacelab mission (1985, the last successful Space Shuttle Challenger mission, also the largest crew, 8 in total, 3 were licenced Amateurs). First mission where payload activities were controlled from outside the US. Later became head of the ESA's Astronaut Center. |
 FX0STB |
Jean-Pierre Haigneré | Engineer, French government space agency (CNES) spationaut. Flew on two missions to the Mir space station in 1993 and 1999. |
 IZ0JPA |
Paolo Angelo Nespoli | Itallian Astronaut of the European Space Agency, Mission Specialist on board Space Shuttle Discovery for the STS-120 flight to the ISS. |
 KB5UAC |
Colin Michael Foale, CBE, PhD (Mike Foale) |
British born US astronaut (space shuttle crew, Mir and ISS missions). |
 KC5ZSU |
Laurel Blair Salton Clark, M.D. | Crew member of the ill fated Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-107. |
 KC5ZTC |
David M. Brown | Crew member of the ill fated Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-107. |
 KD5ESI |
Kalpana Chawla | Crew member of the ill fated Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-107. |
 KD5PLB |
Sunita Williams | U S Naval officer and NASA astronaut. |
 KD5VNP |
Barbara Radding "Barb" Morgan | NASA "educator astronaut" on STS-118 aboard Endeavour. She was back-up educator astronaut for the STS-51L (Challenger) flight that ended in disaster 73 seconds after lift-off in 1986. |
 KE5AIT |
Edward Michael "Mike" Fincke | ISS Expedition-9, 6 month duty as NASA Space Station science officer and flight engineer. Back-up Commander for ISS Expeditions 13 and 16. Commander Expedition-18. |
 KG6FZX |
Dennis Anthony Tito | U S multimillionaire who gained celebrity status by becoming the first space "tourist", paying for his own ticket. |
 N5YYV |
Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan Ph.D. | NASA astonaut. First American woman to walk in space (1984). Flew on a total of three space shuttle missions, logging 532 hours in space. |
 ON1AFD |
Dirk Dries David Damiaan, Viscount Frimout Ph.D. (Dirk Frimout) |
Astrophysicist and an European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut. First Belgian in space on space shuttle Atlantis (STS-45) 1992 (the first Spacelab mission dedicated to NASA's Mission to Planet Earth). Ennobled and given the title of viscount after his flight. |
 ON1DWN |
Frank De Winne | European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut. Flight engineer on the newly designed Soyuz TMA, Odissea mission, a support flight to the International Space Station (2002). |
 PE1LFO |
Wubbo Johannes Ockels | First Dutch citizen in space and payload specialist on the STS-61A the West German D-1 Spacelab mission (1985, the last successful Space Shuttle Challenger mission, also the largest crew, 8 in total, 3 were licenced Amateurs). First mission where payload activities were controlled from outside the US. |
 RK3DUO |
Col. Yuri Ivanovich Onufriyenko | Russian cosmonaut. Mir and ISS missions. He has been named a Hero of Russia, been awarded two Armed Forces medals and named a Chevalier in the French Legion of Honour. |
 RK3DUP |
Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko | Russian cosmonaut. The first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas, while he was 240 miles over New Zealand, on the International Space Station. (You may now kiss the bride!) |
 RN3DX |
Oleg Kononenko | Astronaut on the ISS. |
 RO3FT |
Talgat Amangeldyuly Musabayev | Kazakhstan born cosmonaut, flight engineer of the Mir-25 mission. Later founded National Kazakhstan Space Agency and became Director of Aerospace Agency of Republic of Kazakhstan. |
 RV3DB |
Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin | Cosmonaut. Several space missions including Mir and ISS. In 2002 Nikolai went to the ISS onboard STS-113 Space Shuttle Endeavour and returned in 2003 aboard Soyuz TMA-1. |
 RV3DD |
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dzhanibekov | First Soviet cosmonaut to perform five space flights. |
 RZ3FK |
Valery Grigorievich Korzun | Russian cosmonaut. On a trip to the ISS in 2002 his team improved future station amateur radio operations by adding two amateur radio antennas on the Zvezda module. |
 UA9AD |
Yury Vladimirovich Usachev | Astronaut, stationed on MIR and ISS. |
 W0ORE |
Dr. Anthony Wayne England Ph.D. (Tony England) |
Part of the support team for Apollo 13. Developed and communicated instructions for construction of the lithium hydroxide CO2 scrubber that helped those astronauts to return safely to Earth. Mission specialist on the Challenger space shuttle flight in 1985 (STS-51-F). |
 W5LFL |
Owen Kay Garriott, Ph.D. | NASA astronaut who spent 60 days aboard Skylab in 1973 and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 in 1983. First Amateur Radio operator to operate from space. Father of W5KWQ (below). |
 W5KWQ |
Richard Garriott | Son of Owen Kay Garriott, W5LFL (above). Richard was the 6th private citizen to be flown by the Russian space agency to the ISS. Spoke with hundreds of students while thousands more listened in during a series of ten-minute amateur radio contacts. This was almost 25 years from when his father made history as the first amateur radio operator to communicate with radio amateurs from space. |
 WA4SIR |
Dr. Ronald Anthony Parise PhD | Payload specialist on two Space Shuttle missions: STS-35 on the Space Shuttle Columbia in December 1990. STS-67 on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in March 1995. Instrumental in development of a amateur radio system that could be used in multiple configurations on the Space Shuttle. First space operater of packet radio. Instrumental in helping the ARISS team resolve issues with critical technical and political roadblocks. Key developmer of the amateur radio hardware systems that are now on-board ISS. |