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• Afghanistan
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  Austria
  Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
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  Azerbaijan
  Azerbaijan ( ; ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan (), is one of the six independent Turkic states in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south.
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  Belarus
  Belarus, ( ; , ), officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno (Hrodna), Gomel (Homiel), Mogilev (Mahilyow) and Vitebsk (Viciebsk). Forty percent of its is forested, and its strongest economic sectors are agriculture and manufacturing.
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  Belgium
  Belgium (, ), officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, as well as those of several other major international organizations such as NATO. Belgium covers an area of , and it has a population of about 10.8 million people.
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  Brazil
  Brazil (; , ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (, ), is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and the largest lusophone country in the world.
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  Bulgaria
  Bulgaria ( , Balgariya, ), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (, Republika Balgariya, ), is a country in Southern Europe. Bulgaria borders five other countries: Romania to the north (mostly along the Danube), Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Greece and Turkey to the south. The Black Sea defines the extent of the country to the east.
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  Canada
  Canada () is a country in North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
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  Cuba
  The Republic of Cuba (; , ) is an island country in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos.
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• Czechoslovakia
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  East Germany
  The German Democratic Republic (GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR), informally called East Germany by the West, was the socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany and in the East Berlin portion of the Allied-occupied capital city. The German Democratic Republic, which consisted geographically of northeast Germany rather than all of eastern Germany, had an area of 107,771 km2. (41,610 mi.2), bordering Czechoslovakia in the south, West Germany (officially: Federal Republic of Germany) in the south and west, the Baltic Sea to the north, and Poland in the east.
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  France
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• Georgia (country)
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  Germany
  Germany (), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (, ), is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The territory of Germany covers 357.021 km2 and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state of the European Union, and home to the third-largest number of international migrants worldwide.
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• Hungary
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  India
  India (), officially the Republic of India ( ; see also official names of India), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Mainland India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east; and it is bordered by Pakistan to the west; Bhutan, the People's Republic of China and Nepal to the north; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, mainland India and the Lakshadweep Islands are in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share maritime border with Thailand and the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Andaman Sea. India has a coastline of .
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• Italy
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• Japan
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• Kazakhstan
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  Latvia
  Latvia (; ), officially the Republic of Latvia () is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia (343 km), to the south by Lithuania (588 km), to the east by the Russian Federation (276 km), and to the southeast by Belarus (141 km). Across the Baltic Sea to the west lies Sweden. The territory of Latvia covers and it has a temperate seasonal climate.
  http://wn.com/Latvia
• Malaysia
  Malaysia (pronounced or ) is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia. It consists of thirteen states and three federal territories and has a total landmass of . The country is separated by the South China Sea into two regions, Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo (also known as West and East Malaysia respectively). Malaysia shares land borders with Thailand, Indonesia, and Brunei and has maritime boundaries with Singapore, Vietnam, and the Philippines. The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government. The population as of 2009 stood at over 28 million.
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  Mir
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  Mongolia
  Mongolia (; ) is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and the People's Republic of China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulaanbaatar, the capital and largest city, is home to about 38% of the population. Mongolia's political system is a parliamentary republic.
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• Moscow
  Moscow ( or ; ; see also ) is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the world, a global city. Moscow is the most populous city on the continent of Europe and the seventh largest city proper in the world, a megacity. The population of Moscow (as of 1 January 2010) is 10,563,038.
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  NASA
  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, ) is an Executive Branch agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's civilian space program and aeronautics and aerospace research. Since February 2006, NASA's self-described mission statement is to "pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research."
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  Netherlands
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  Poland
  Poland (), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north. The total area of Poland is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. Poland has a population of over 38 million people, which makes it the 34th most populous country in the world and the sixth most populous member of the European Union, being its most populous Slavic member.
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  Romania
  Romania ( ; dated: Rumania; ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, north of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Romania shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south.
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  Russia
  Russia (; ), also officially known as the Russian Federation (), is a state in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the United States by the Bering Strait. At , Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the Earth's land area. Russia is also the ninth most populous nation with 142 million people. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 9 time zones and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources. It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's fresh water.
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• Slovakia
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  South Africa
  The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an independent country wholly surrounded by South African territory.
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  South Korea
  South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK, , ) and sometimes referred to simply as Korea, is a state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, and North Korea to the north. Its capital is Seoul. South Korea lies in a temperate climate region with a predominantly mountainous terrain. Its territory covers a total area of 99,392 square kilometers and has a population of .
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• Soviet Union
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  Soyuz 11
  Soyuz 11 (, Union 11) was the first successful visit to the world's first space station, Salyut 1. The mission ended in disaster when the crew capsule depressurised during preparations for re-entry, killing the three-man crew. This accident resulted in the only deaths to occur in space (as opposed to high atmosphere). The crew members aboard Soyuz 11 were Vladislav Volkov, Georgi Dobrovolski and Viktor Patsayev.
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  Soyuz TM-17
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  Soyuz TM-21
  Soyuz TM-21 was Soyuz mission, a human spaceflight mission transporting personnel to the Russian space station Mir. Part of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, the mission launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, atop a Soyuz-U2 carrier rocket, at 06:11:34 UTC on March 14, 1995. It is of note because its launch marked the presence, for the first time ever, of thirteen humans in space simultaneously - three aboard the Soyuz, three aboard Mir and seven aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, flying STS-67.
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  Soyuz TM-22
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  Soyuz TM-23
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  Soyuz TM-24
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  Soyuz TM-25
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  Soyuz TM-26
  Soyuz TM-26 is a Russian spacecraft that ferried cosmonauts and supplies to the Mir, the Russian space station. It was the 32nd expedition to Mir. It was launched by a Soyuz-U rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome on August 5, 1997. The main mission was to transport two specially-trained cosmonauts to repair or salvage the troubled space station.
  http://wn.com/Soyuz_TM-26
• Soyuz TM-27
  Soyuz TM-27 is a Russian spacecraft that ferried cosmonauts and supplies to the Mir, the Russian space station. It was the 33rd expedition to Mir. It was launched by a Soyuz-U rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome on January 29, 1998. The main mission was to exchange one crew member, carry out French mission PEGASE, and conduct routine science experiments.
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  Soyuz TM-30
  Soyuz TM-30 was the 39th and last expedition to the Mir space station.
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  Soyuz TM-32
  Soyuz TM-32 was a manned Russian space launch on April 28, 2001. Its mission was to carry a new crew and supplies to the International Space Station. This mission was notable for being the craft that took Dennis Tito into space as the first paying space tourist.
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• Soyuz TMA-2
  Soyuz TMA-2 was a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle. The spacecraft docked with the ISS 2003-04-28 and undocked 2003-10-27.
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  Spain
  Spain ( ; , ), officially the Kingdom of Spain (), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar; to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.
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  Syria
  Syria ( ; ' or '), officially the Syrian Arab Republic (), is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.
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  Turkmenistan
  The Turkmenistan (), also known as Turkmenia () is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (Turkmen SSR). Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states. It is bordered by Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest, Uzbekistan to the east and northeast, Kazakhstan to the north and northwest and the Caspian Sea to the west.
  http://wn.com/Turkmenistan
• U.S.S.R.
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  Ukraine
  Ukraine ( ; , transliterated: , ), with its area of 603,628 km2, is the second largest country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by the Russian Federation to the east and northeast, Belarus to the northwest, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast respectively.
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  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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  United States
  The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
  http://wn.com/United_States
• Uzbekistan
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  Vietnam
  Vietnam ( ; , ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (, ), is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China (PRC) to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea, referred to as East Sea (), to the east. With a population of over 86 million, Vietnam is the 13th most populous country in the world.
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• Abdul Ahad Mohmand
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• Aleksandr Kaleri
  http://wn.com/Aleksandr_Kaleri
• Aleksandr Laveykin
  Aleksandr Ivanovich Laveykin (born April 21, 1951) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
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  Aleksandr Lazutkin
  Aleksandr Ivanovich Lazutkin (; born October 30, 1957 in Moscow) is a Russian cosmonaut.
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• Aleksandr Serebrov
  http://wn.com/Aleksandr_Serebrov
• Aleksandr Viktorenko
  http://wn.com/Aleksandr_Viktorenko
• Aleksei Gubarev
  Aleksei Aleksandrovich Gubarev (; born March 29, 1931 in Gvardeitsi) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on two space flights: Soyuz 17 and Soyuz 28.
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• Aleksei Leonov
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  Aleksei Yeliseyev
  Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev (; born July 13, 1934 in Zhizdra) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 5, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10.
  http://wn.com/Aleksei_Yeliseyev
• Aleksey Ovchinin
  Aleksey Nikolayevich Ovchinin () born on September 28, 1971, major of Russian Air Force, is a Russian cosmonaut, selected in 2006.
  http://wn.com/Aleksey_Ovchinin
• Anatoli Levchenko
  Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko (born on May 5, 1941 in Krasnokutsk, Kharkiv Oblast of Ukrainian SSR - August 6, 1988 in Moscow, Russian SFSR) was a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. Flew as Research Cosmonaut on Soyuz TM-4 mission.
  http://wn.com/Anatoli_Levchenko
• Anatoly Artsebarsky
  Anatoly Pavlovich Artsebarsky () (; born September 9, 1956) is a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent.
  http://wn.com/Anatoly_Artsebarsky
• Anatoly Berezovoy
  http://wn.com/Anatoly_Berezovoy
• Anatoly Filipchenko
  http://wn.com/Anatoly_Filipchenko
• Andrei Borisenko
  http://wn.com/Andrei_Borisenko
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  Andriyan Nikolayev
  Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev (Chuvash and ), (September 5, 1929–July 3, 2004) was a Soviet cosmonaut. Ethnic Chuvash.
  http://wn.com/Andriyan_Nikolayev
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  Anousheh Ansari
  Anousheh Ansari (, born September 12, 1966 in Mashhad, Iran) is an engineer and the Iranian-American co-founder and chairman of Prodea Systems, Inc and a spaceflight participant with the Russian space program. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI). The Ansari family is also the title sponsor of the Ansari X Prize. On September 18, 2006, a few days after her 40th birthday, she became the first Iranian in space. Ansari is the fourth overall self-funded space tourist, and the first self-funded woman to fly to the International Space Station. Her memoir, My Dream of Stars, co-written with Homer Hickam, was published by Palgrave-McMillan in 2010.
  http://wn.com/Anousheh_Ansari
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  Anton Shkaplerov
  Anton Nikolaevich Shkaplerov (born February 20, 1972 in Sevastopol, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian cosmonaut.
  http://wn.com/Anton_Shkaplerov
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  Austria
  Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
  http://wn.com/Austria
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  Bertalan Farkas
  Bertalan Farkas (born August 2, 1949) was the first Hungarian cosmonaut and the first Esperantist in space. He is currently the president of Airlines Service and Trade. With Charles Simonyi's travel, Farkas is no longer the only Hungarian who has been to space (he is still the only astronaut, as Simonyi flew as a space tourist).
  http://wn.com/Bertalan_Farkas
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  Boris Volynov
  Boris Valentinovich Volynov (; born December 18, 1934 in Irkutsk) is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 5, and Soyuz 21. He was the first Jewish astronaut.
  http://wn.com/Boris_Volynov
• Boris Yegorov
  http://wn.com/Boris_Yegorov
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  Catherine Coleman
  Catherine Grace "Cady" Coleman (born December 14, 1960, in Charleston, South Carolina) is an American chemist, a former United States Air Force officer, and a current NASA astronaut. She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, and is currently in training to go to the International Space Station in late 2010.
  http://wn.com/Catherine_Coleman
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  Charles Simonyi
  Charles Simonyi (; born September 10, 1948) is a Hungarian-American computer software executive who, as head of Microsoft's application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsoft's flagship office applications. He now heads his own company, Intentional Software, with the aim of developing and marketing his concept of intentional programming. In April 2007, aboard Soyuz TMA-10, he became the fifth space tourist and the second Hungarian in space. In March 2009, aboard Soyuz TMA-14, he made a second trip to the International Space Station. His estimated net worth is US$1 billion.
  http://wn.com/Charles_Simonyi
• Claudie Haigneré
  http://wn.com/Claudie_Haigneré
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  Daniel C. Burbank
  Daniel Christopher Burbank (born July 27, 1961) is an American astronaut and a veteran of two space shuttle missions. Burbank, a Captain in the United States Coast Guard, is the second Coast Guard astronaut after Bruce Melnick.
  http://wn.com/Daniel_C_Burbank
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  Dennis Tito
  Dennis Anthony Tito (born August 8, 1940 in Queens, New York) is a United States engineer, multimillionaire, and most widely known as the first space tourist to pay for his own ticket. In mid-2001, he spent nearly eight days in orbit on Soyuz TM-32, the International Space Station, and Soyuz TM-31.
  http://wn.com/Dennis_Tito
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  Dmitri Kondratyev
  '''Dmitri Yur'yevich Kondrat'yev''' (born May 25, 1969 in Irkutsk, Russia) is a Russian cosmonaut. He is currently assigned as the possible Expedition 27 crew commander.
  http://wn.com/Dmitri_Kondratyev
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  Donald Pettit
  Donald Roy Pettit (born April 20, 1955) is an American chemical engineer and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station and a six-week expedition to find meteorites in Antarctica.
  http://wn.com/Donald_Pettit
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  Douglas H. Wheelock
  Douglas Harry "Wheels" Wheelock (born May 5, 1960 in Binghamton, New York) is an American astronaut and the commander of International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 25.
  http://wn.com/Douglas_H_Wheelock
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  Dumitru Prunariu
  Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu (; born September 27, 1952) is a retired Romanian astronaut who flew aboard Soyuz 40.
  http://wn.com/Dumitru_Prunariu
• Ed Lu
  http://wn.com/Ed_Lu
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  Frank De Winne
  Frank, Viscount De Winne (born April 25, 1961 in Ledeberg, Belgium) is a Belgian Air Component officer and an ESA astronaut. He is Belgium's second person in space (after Dirk Frimout). He was the first ESA astronaut to command a space mission when he served as commander of ISS Expedition 21.
  http://wn.com/Frank_De_Winne
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  Fyodor Yurchikhin
  Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin (), is a Russian cosmonaut and RSC Energia test-pilot who has flown on several missions, including STS-112, Soyuz TMA-10, and Expedition 15. He has collectively spent over 207 days in space.
  http://wn.com/Fyodor_Yurchikhin
• Gennadi Manakov
  Gennadi Mikhailovich Manakov is a former cosmonaut that commanded two Soyuz flights.
  http://wn.com/Gennadi_Manakov
• Gennadi Sarafanov
  http://wn.com/Gennadi_Sarafanov
• Georgi Beregovoi
  http://wn.com/Georgi_Beregovoi
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  Georgi Grechko
  Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko (; born May 25, 1931 in Leningrad) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on several space flights among which Soyuz 17, Soyuz 26, and Soyuz T-14.
  http://wn.com/Georgi_Grechko
• Georgi Ivanov
  Georgi Ivanov () (born Georgi Kakalov, born July 2, 1940) was the first Bulgarian in space. He was a member of the National Assembly of Bulgaria in 1990.
  http://wn.com/Georgi_Ivanov
• Georgi Shonin
  http://wn.com/Georgi_Shonin
• Georgiy Dobrovolskiy
  http://wn.com/Georgiy_Dobrovolskiy
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  Gherman Titov
  Gherman Stepanovich Titov () (September 11, 1935 – September 20, 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut and the second man to orbit the Earth, preceded by Yuri Gagarin.
  http://wn.com/Gherman_Titov
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  Gregory Olsen
  Gregory Hammond "Greg" Olsen (born April 20, 1945) is an American entrepreneur and scientist who, in October 2005, became the third private citizen to make a self-funded trip into space with Space Adventures.
  http://wn.com/Gregory_Olsen
• Helen Sharman
  Helen Patricia Sharman, OBE (born 30 May 1963), is a British chemist. She was the first Briton in space, visiting the Mir space station aboard Soyuz TM-12 in 1991.
  http://wn.com/Helen_Sharman
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  Igor Volk
  Igor Petrovich Volk (; born April 12, 1937 in Zmiiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) was a cosmonaut and test pilot in the Soviet Union. He is married and has two children.
  http://wn.com/Igor_Volk
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  Ivan Bella
  Ivan Bella (born 25 May 1964 in Brezno, Czechoslovakia (present Slovakia)) is a Slovak Air Force officer who became the first Slovak citizen to fly in space. He participated in a nine-day joint Russian-French-Slovak mission on the Mir space station in 1999.
  http://wn.com/Ivan_Bella
• Jean-Loup Chrétien
  http://wn.com/Jean-Loup_Chrétien
• Jean-Pierre Haigneré
  http://wn.com/Jean-Pierre_Haigneré
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  Joseph M. Acaba
  Joseph Michael "Joe" Acaba (born May 17, 1967 in Inglewood, California) is an educator, hydrogeologist, and NASA astronaut. In May 2004 he became the first person of Puerto Rican heritage to be named as a NASA astronaut candidate, when he was selected as a member of NASA Astronaut Training Group 19. He completed his training on February 10, 2006 and was assigned to STS-119, which flew from March 15 to March 28, 2009 to deliver the final set of solar arrays to the International Space Station.
  http://wn.com/Joseph_M_Acaba
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  Ken Bowersox
  Kenneth Dwane "Sox" Bowersox (born November 14, 1956) is an engineer, United States Naval officer, and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five Space Shuttle missions and an extended stay aboard the International Space Station.
  http://wn.com/Ken_Bowersox
• Klaus-Dietrich Flade
  Klaus-Dietrich Flade (born August 23, 1952) is a German pilot and former German Aerospace Center astronaut.
  http://wn.com/Klaus-Dietrich_Flade
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  Konstantin Kozeyev
  Konstantin Mirovich Kozeyev () is a Russian cosmonaut.
  http://wn.com/Konstantin_Kozeyev
• Leonid Kizim
  http://wn.com/Leonid_Kizim
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  Leonid Popov
  Leonid Ivanovich Popov (born August 31, 1945) is a former Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent.
  http://wn.com/Leonid_Popov
• Lev Dyomin
  http://wn.com/Lev_Dyomin
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  List of cosmonauts
  This is a list of cosmonauts who have taken part in the missions of the Soviet space program and the Russian Federal Space Agency, including ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities.
  http://wn.com/List_of_cosmonauts
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  Maksim Surayev
  Maksim Viktorovich Surayev (, born May 24 1972) is a Russian cosmonaut.
  http://wn.com/Maksim_Surayev
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  Marcos Pontes
  Marcos Cesar Pontes (born March 11, 1963) is a Brazilian Air Force pilot. He became the first Brazilian and the first Lusophone to go into space when he launched to the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-8 on March 30, 2006. He is the only Brazilian to complete the NASA astronaut training program, although he switched to training in Russia after NASA's Space Shuttle program encountered problems.
  http://wn.com/Marcos_Pontes
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  Michael E. Fossum
  Michael Edward Fossum (born December 19, 1957 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota) is an American astronaut. He flew into space onboard the NASA Space Shuttle missions STS-121 and STS-124 as a mission specialist.
  http://wn.com/Michael_E_Fossum
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  Michael Fincke
  Edward Michael "Mike" Fincke (born March 14, 1967 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but considers Emsworth, Pennsylvania to be his home town) is a United States Air Force officer and a NASA astronaut, who has served two tours aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer and commander. He is a researcher for the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity Project. Fincke is conversant in Japanese and Russian. He is married to Renita Saikia and together, they have three children; son Chandra and daughters Tarali and Surya.
  http://wn.com/Michael_Fincke
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  Michael Foale
  Colin Michael Foale, CBE, PhD (born 6 January 1957) is a British-American astrophysicist with dual citizenship and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six space shuttle missions and extended stays on both Mir and the International Space Station. He was the first Briton to perform a space walk, and until 17 April 2008, he held the record for most time spent in space by a US citizen: 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes. He still holds the cumulative-time-in-space record for a UK citizen.
  http://wn.com/Michael_Foale
• Michael R. Barratt
  Michael Reed Barratt, (born April 16, 1959) is an American physician and a NASA astronaut. Specializing in aerospace medicine, Barratt served as a flight surgeon for NASA before his selection as an astronaut, and has played a role in developing NASA's space medicine programs for both the Shuttle-Mir Program and International Space Station. He was a Flight Engineer on Expedition 19, his first flight, and continued his stay as part of the Expedition 20 crew.
  http://wn.com/Michael_R_Barratt
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  Michel Tognini
  Michel Ange-Charles Tognini (born September 30, 1949, in Vincennes, France) is a French test pilot, officer in the French Air Force, and a former CNES and ESA astronaut who currently serves as Head of the Astronaut Division of the European Space Agency. A veteran of two space flights, Tognini has logged a total of 19 days in space. Tognini has 4000 flight hours on 80 types of aircraft (mainly fighter aircraft including the MiG-25, Tupolev 154, Lightning MK-3 and MK-5, Gloster Meteor, and F-104). He is fluent in English and Russian.
  http://wn.com/Michel_Tognini
• Mikhail Korniyenko
  http://wn.com/Mikhail_Korniyenko
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  Mikhail Tyurin
  Mikhail Vladislavovich Tyurin () (b. March 2, 1960, Kolomna, Russia) is a Russian cosmonaut.
  http://wn.com/Mikhail_Tyurin
• Muhammed Faris
  Muhammed Ahmed Faris () (born May 26, 1951) is a Syrian military aviator. He was the first Syrian and the second Arab in space.
  http://wn.com/Muhammed_Faris
• Musa Manarov
  Musa Khiramanovich Manarov (, ) was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR on March 22, 1951.
  http://wn.com/Musa_Manarov
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  Nikolai Budarin
  Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin () (born April 29, 1953 in Kirya, Chuvashia) is a Russian cosmonaut, a veteran of three extended space missions aboard the Mir Space Station and the International Space Station. He has also performed eight career spacewalks with a total time of 44 hours.
  http://wn.com/Nikolai_Budarin
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  Norman Thagard
  Norman Earl Thagard (born July 3, 1943) is an American scientist and former 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 this on March 14, 1995 in the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft for the Russian Mir-18 mission.
  http://wn.com/Norman_Thagard
• Oleg Atkov
  http://wn.com/Oleg_Atkov
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  Oleg Kononenko
  Oleg Dmitriyevich Kononenko () is a Russian cosmonaut.
  http://wn.com/Oleg_Kononenko
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  Oleg Kotov
  Oleg Valeriyevich Kotov () was born October 27, 1965, in Simferopol, Crimean oblast in Ukrainian SSR. He became the 100th Russian in space.
  http://wn.com/Oleg_Kotov
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  Oleg Skripochka
  Oleg Ivanovich Skripochka (born December 24, 1969 in Nevinnomyssk / Stavropol Krai, Russia) is a Russian cosmonaut. He is currently assigned as an Expedition 25 crewmember.
  http://wn.com/Oleg_Skripochka
• Pavel Belyayev
  http://wn.com/Pavel_Belyayev
• Pavel Popovich
  http://wn.com/Pavel_Popovich
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  Pavel Vinogradov
  Pavel Vladimirovich Vinogradov () (born August 31, 1953 in Magadan, Russia) is a cosmonaut. As of June 2010, he has flown into space twice was one of the top 25 astronauts in terms of total time in space. Vinogradov has also conducted six spacewalks in his cosmonaut career.
  http://wn.com/Pavel_Vinogradov
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  Pedro Duque
  Pedro Duque Duque (born 14 March 1963) is a Spanish astronaut and a veteran of two space missions.
  http://wn.com/Pedro_Duque
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  Peggy Whitson
  Peggy Annette Whitson (born February 9, 1960) is an American biochemistry researcher, NASA astronaut, and NASA's Chief Astronaut. Her first space mission was in 2002, with an extended stay aboard the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 5. Her second mission launched October 10, 2007, as the first female commander of the ISS with Expedition 16. With her two long-duration stays abroad the ISS, Whitson is NASA's most experienced astronaut, with just over 376 days in space. This also places her twentieth among all space flyers.
  http://wn.com/Peggy_Whitson
• Pham Tuân
  http://wn.com/Pham_Tuân
• Pyotr Klimuk
  http://wn.com/Pyotr_Klimuk
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  Rakesh Sharma
  Rakesh Sharma (born January 13, 1949) is a former Indian Air Force test pilot and cosmonaut. Sharma was the first Indian and 138th person to travel in space.
  http://wn.com/Rakesh_Sharma
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  Reinhold Ewald
  Reinhold Ewald (born December 18, 1956) is a German physicist and ESA astronaut.
  http://wn.com/Reinhold_Ewald
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  Richard Garriott
  Richard Allen Garriott (born July 4, 1961) is a British-American video game developer and entrepreneur.
  http://wn.com/Richard_Garriott
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  Robert Thirsk
  Robert Brent "Bob" Thirsk (born August 17, 1953) is a Canadian engineer and physician, and a CSA astronaut. He holds the Canadian records for the longest space flight (187 days 20 hours) and the most time spent in space (204 days 18 hours).
  http://wn.com/Robert_Thirsk
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  Roberto Vittori
  Roberto Vittori (Viterbo, October 15, 1964) is an Italian air force officer and an ESA astronaut.
  http://wn.com/Roberto_Vittori
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  Ronald J. Garan, Jr.
  Ronald John Garan, Jr. is a NASA astronaut. He graduated Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. After receiving a bachelors degree in Business Economics from State University of New York, College at Oneonta in 1982, he joined the Air Force, becoming a Second Lieutenant in 1984. He became an F-16 pilot, and flew missions in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. In 1994 he obtained a Masters of Aeronautical Science, and in 1996 a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering. Before becoming an astronaut he was the Operations Officer of the 40th Flight Test Squadron (FTS). He first flew as a Mission Specialist on STS-124. He will return to space in March 2011 for a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 27.
  http://wn.com/Ronald_J_Garan_Jr
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  Satoshi Furukawa
  Satoshi Furukawa is a Japanese surgeon and a JAXA astronaut.
  http://wn.com/Satoshi_Furukawa
• Sergei Avdeyev
  http://wn.com/Sergei_Avdeyev
• Sergei Treshchov
  http://wn.com/Sergei_Treshchov
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  Sergei Zalyotin
  Sergei Viktorovich Zalyotin (; born 21 April 1962) is a Russian cosmonaut and a veteran of a two space missions.
  http://wn.com/Sergei_Zalyotin
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  Shannon Walker
  Shannon Walker (born 4 June 1965 in Houston, Texas) is an American scientist and a NASA astronaut, whose first space mission was Expedition 24 on the International Space Station with take-off on 15 June 2010. She is married to a fellow NASA astronaut, the Australian-born Andy Thomas. She is a member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) and The Ninety-Nines International Organization of Women Pilots.
  http://wn.com/Shannon_Walker
• Soichi Noguchi
  http://wn.com/Soichi_Noguchi
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  Svetlana Savitskaya
  Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (; born August 8, 1948, in Moscow, Russian SFSR) is a former Soviet female aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova. She is the daughter of Soviet military commander Yevgeniy Savitskiy. She is married, with one child.
  http://wn.com/Svetlana_Savitskaya
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  Talgat Musabayev
  Talgat Amangeldyuly Musabayev (; born January 7, 1951, Kargaly, Kazakhstan), is a Kazakh test pilot and former cosmonaut who flew on the following space missions:
  http://wn.com/Talgat_Musabayev
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  Thomas Reiter
  Thomas Arthur Reiter (born May 23, 1958 in Frankfurt, Germany) is a retired European astronaut and is a Brigadier General in the Luftwaffe currently working as chairman of the board of German Aerospace Center (DLR). , he was one of the top 25 astronauts in terms of total time in space. With his wife and two sons he lives in Wahnbek (near Oldenburg) in Lower Saxony.
  http://wn.com/Thomas_Reiter
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  Timothy Creamer
  Timothy "TJ" Creamer (born November 15, 1959) is a NASA astronaut and a Colonel in the United States Army. Creamer was born in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, but considers Upper Marlboro, Maryland, to be his hometown. He is married to the former Margaret E. Hammer. They have two children.
  http://wn.com/Timothy_Creamer
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  Toktar Aubakirov
  Toktar Ongarbayuly Aubakirov (, born on July 27, 1946, in Karaganda, Kazakhstan) is a retired Kazakhstani Air Force officer and a former cosmonaut (Kazakh: gharyshker).
  http://wn.com/Toktar_Aubakirov
• Toyohiro Akiyama
  http://wn.com/Toyohiro_Akiyama
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  Tracy Caldwell Dyson
  Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Ph.D. (born Tracy Ellen Caldwell, August 14, 1969) is an American chemist and NASA astronaut. She specialized in chemistry in college during a stint as an electrician and performed various jobs while at NASA to include working with the Russian Federal Space Agency in Russia, as well as spacecraft communications through her NASA training. Caldwell Dyson flew on Space Shuttle Endeavour flight STS-118 in August 2007 as Mission Specialist #1. Since April 4, 2010 she has been aboard the International Space Station, as part of the Expedition 24 crew. After 176 days in space she and her two Russian crew mates, Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko, landed safely in Kazakhstan on 25th September 2010.
  http://wn.com/Tracy_Caldwell_Dyson
• Valentin Lebedev
  Valentin Vitaljevich Lebedev (; born April 14, 1942 in Moscow) was a Soviet cosmonaut who made two flights into space. His stay aboard the Space Station Salyut 7 with Anatoly Berezovoy in 1982, which lasted 211 days, was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.
  http://wn.com/Valentin_Lebedev
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  Valentina Tereshkova
  Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova () (born 6 March 1937) is the first woman in space, now a retired Soviet cosmonaut. Out of more than four hundred applicants and then out of five finalists, she was selected to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963 and become the first woman to fly in space. This also made her the first civilian in space (she was only honorarily inducted into the USSR's Air Force as a condition on joining the Cosmonaut Corps). On this mission, lasting almost three days in space, she performed various tests on herself to collect data on the female body's reaction to spaceflight.
  http://wn.com/Valentina_Tereshkova
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  Valeri Kubasov
  Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov (; born 7 January 1935 in Vyazniki) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19 (the Apollo-Soyuz mission), and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme. On 21 July 1975, Soviet Soyuz module landed in Kazakhstan at-5:51pm and Valeriy Kubasov was the first to exit the craft. He was also involved in the development of the Mir space station. He retired from the Soviet space program in March 1993.
  http://wn.com/Valeri_Kubasov
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  Valeri Polyakov
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  http://wn.com/Valeri_Polyakov
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  Valeri Tokarev
  Valeri Ivanovich Tokarev (), Russian Air Force Colonel and test cosmonaut at the Yuri A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, was born October 29, 1952 in the town of Kap-Yar, Astrakhan Oblast and currently resides at Star City, Moscow Region. He has traveled to space twice and has performed two career spacewalks. He retired on June 10, 2008.
  http://wn.com/Valeri_Tokarev
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  Valery Bykovsky
  Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky (; born 2 August 1934, Pavlovsky Posad) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three manned space mission space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31. He was also backup for Vostok 3 and Soyuz 37.
  http://wn.com/Valery_Bykovsky
• Vasili Tsibliyev
  http://wn.com/Vasili_Tsibliyev
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  Viktor Gorbatko
  Viktor Vassilyevich Gorbatko (; born December 3, 1934 in Ventsy-Zarya) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7, Soyuz 24, and Soyuz 37 missions.
  http://wn.com/Viktor_Gorbatko
• Viktor Patsayev
  http://wn.com/Viktor_Patsayev
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  Viktor Savinykh
  Viktor Petrovich Savinykh was born in Berezkiny, Kirov Oblast, Russian SFSR on March 7, 1940. Married with one child. Selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978. Retired on February 9, 1989.
  http://wn.com/Viktor_Savinykh
• Vitali Sevastyanov
  http://wn.com/Vitali_Sevastyanov
• Vitali Zholobov
  Vitali Mikhailovich Zholobov (; born June 18, 1937 in Zburjevka, Ukrainian SSR) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on Soyuz 21 space flight as the flight engineer.
  http://wn.com/Vitali_Zholobov
• Vladimir Aksyonov
  http://wn.com/Vladimir_Aksyonov
• Vladimir Dzhanibekov
  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dzhanibekov (; born May 13, 1942) is a former cosmonaut who made five flights.
  http://wn.com/Vladimir_Dzhanibekov
• Vladimir Kovalyonok
  Vladimir Vasiliyevich Kovalyonok (; ; born March 3, 1942 in Beloye, Minsk voblast, Byelorussian SSR, was a Soviet cosmonaut. He entered the Soviet space programme on July 5, 1967 and was commander of three missions. He retired on June 23, 1984.
  http://wn.com/Vladimir_Kovalyonok
• Vladimir Lyakhov
  Vladimir Afanasiyevich Lyakhov (; born in Antratsyt, Voroshilovgrad Oblast (now Luhansk Oblast), Ukrainian SSR) on July 20, 1941) is a Soviet cosmonaut.
  http://wn.com/Vladimir_Lyakhov
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  Vladimir Shatalov
  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov (; born December 8, 1927 in Petropavlovsk) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 4, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10.
  http://wn.com/Vladimir_Shatalov
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  Vladimir Titov
  Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov (), Colonel, Russian Air Force, Ret., and former Russian cosmonaut was born January 1, 1947, in Sretensk, in the Zabaykalsky Krai region of Russia. He is married to the former Alexandra Kozlova of Ivanovo Region, Russia. They have two children.
  http://wn.com/Vladimir_Titov
• Vladimir Vasyutin
  http://wn.com/Vladimir_Vasyutin
• Vladimír Remek
  http://wn.com/Vladimír_Remek
• Vladislav Volkov
  http://wn.com/Vladislav_Volkov
• Vyacheslav Zudov
  Vyacheslav Dmitriyevich Zudov (, born January 8, 1942 in Bor, Gorky Oblast, Russian SFSR) was a USSR cosmonaut.
  http://wn.com/Vyacheslav_Zudov
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  William S. McArthur
  William Surles McArthur, Jr. (born 26 July 1951) is a retired U.S. Army Colonel, a NASA astronaut, and a veteran of three space shuttle missions and one expedition to the International Space Station via the Russian Soyuz capsule.
  http://wn.com/William_S_McArthur
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  William Shepherd
  William McMichael Shepherd (born July 26, 1949) is a former American astronaut who served as commander of Expedition 1, the first crew on the International Space Station. Shepherd is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
  http://wn.com/William_Shepherd
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  Yelena Kondakova
  Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova (; born March 30, 1957 in Mytishchi, Russian SFSR) was the third Soviet/Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space and the first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight. Her first trip into space was on Soyuz TM-20 on October 4, 1994. She returned to Earth on March 22, 1995 after a five-month stay at the Mir space station. Kondakova's second flight was as a mission specialist on the United States Space Shuttle Atlantis during mission STS-84 in May 1997.
  http://wn.com/Yelena_Kondakova
• Yevgeny Khrunov
  http://wn.com/Yevgeny_Khrunov
• Yi So-yeon
  http://wn.com/Yi_So-yeon
• Yuri Artyukhin
  http://wn.com/Yuri_Artyukhin
• Yuri Baturin
  Yuri Mikhailovich Baturin ( (born 12 June 1949, Moscow, Russia), is a Russian cosmonaut and former politician.
  http://wn.com/Yuri_Baturin
• Yuri Gagarin
  http://wn.com/Yuri_Gagarin
• Yuri Glazkov
  http://wn.com/Yuri_Glazkov
• Yuri Lonchakov
  http://wn.com/Yuri_Lonchakov
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  Yuri Malenchenko
  Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko ( ; born December 22, 1961) is a Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut. Malenchenko became 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. As of June 2010, Malenchenko ranks ninth for career time in space due to his time on both Mir and the International Space Station (ISS).
  http://wn.com/Yuri_Malenchenko
• Yuri Malyshev
  Yuri Vasilievich Malyshev was born in the village Nikolayevsk, Stalingrad Oblast (Volgograd Oblast), Russian SFSR on August 27, 1941. Studied in Taganrog's high school N24, 1949-1959. Married with two children. Selected as a cosmonaut on May 7, 1967. Retired on July 20, 1988. Died on November 8, 1999 in Zvyozdny Gorodok, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation.
  http://wn.com/Yuri_Malyshev
• Yuri Romanenko
  http://wn.com/Yuri_Romanenko
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  Yuri Shargin
  Yuri Georgiyevich Shargin () is a cosmonaut in the Russian Space Forces.
  http://wn.com/Yuri_Shargin
• Yuri Usachov
  http://wn.com/Yuri_Usachov

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