Event class: space, nasa, mission, flight, center, program, selected, crew, station, aboard

Events with high posterior probability

Thomas P. Stafford	Stafford was selected among the second group of NASA astronauts in September 1962 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to participate in Projects Gemini and Apollo.
Richard H. Truly	Three weeks after the Space Shuttle'' Challenger'' disaster, Truly returned to NASA to became NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Flight on February 20, 1986.
Oleg Gazenko	From 1955 Gazenko worked in the Soviet space program, focusing his efforts on research in the field of space biology and medicine relevant to weightlessness and orbital flight.
Gary Payton (astronaut)	He was selected for the USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program in February 1980.
Valery Bykovsky	Bykovsky set a space endurance record when he spent five days in orbit aboard Vostok 5 in 1963 where his callsign was'' Hawk'' (Russian : Ястреб).
Ilan Ramon	thumb | right | upright | Payload specialist Ilan Ramon In 1997, Ramon was selected as a Payload Specialist.
Aleksandr Samokutyayev	During the launch of Soyuz TMA-18 on 2 April 2010 he served as a backup commander of the Soyuz spacecraft.
Edward Gibson	In March 1977, Gibson returned to the Astronaut Office astronaut candidate selection and training as Chief of the Scientist-Astronaut Candidates.
Dick Scobee	In April 1984, Scobee piloted Challenger mission STS-41-C, which successfully deployed one satellite and repaired another.
David Strangway	In 1970, he joined NASA as the Chief of the Geophysics Branch and was responsible for the geophysical aspects of the Apollo missions.
Richard G. Smith (engineer)	On August 15, 1978, Smith accepted a one-year assignment as deputy associate administrator for Space Transportation Systems at NASA Headquarters, Washington, D. C.
Reg Lindsay	He was best known for his song Armstrong, a tribute to the historic 1969 moon landing by American astronauts, particularly Neil Armstrong, which is now included in a time capsule at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Boris Volynov	After resigning from the space program in 1982, he spent eight years as a senior administrator at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre.
Norman Thagard	Thagard first flew on the crew of STS-7, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 18, 1983.
Jerry L. Ross	There is speculation that on STS-27 (1988) he may have made an additional EVA, however as this shuttle mission was a classified DoD satellite launch, this is still unknown.
Story Musgrave	On STS-33, he served aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, which launched at night from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on November 22, 1989.
L?opold Eyharts	He trained as a back-up crew member for the'' Cassiopeia'' French-Russian space mission, which took place in August 1996.
Kenneth D. Cameron	Cameron graduated from U. S. Naval Test Pilot School in 1983, and completed numerous courses in Russian language and Russian space systems at MIT, the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, and at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Moscow, Russia.
Richard M. Linnehan	STS-123 (March 11 to March 26, 2008) was Linnehan's fourth spaceflight, and his first aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
David Scott	Scott made his third space flight as spacecraft commander of Apollo 15 (July 26 -- August 7, 1971).
Jeffrey A. Hoffman	Hoffman made five flights as a space shuttle astronaut, including the first mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993, when the orbiting telescope's flawed optical system was corrected.
Neil Woodward	Selected by NASA in June 1998, he reported for training in August 1998.
Satoshi Furukawa	Furukawa arrived at the Johnson Space Center in June 2004.
Dandridge MacFarlan Cole	But in 1956, he moved to the Martin facility in Denver and began to work in earnest for the space program, helping to design the Titan II, which launched the Gemini space capsules.
Michael R. Clifford	As a military officer, Clifford was assigned to the Johnson Space Center in July 1987.
Michael Foreman (astronaut)	Selected by NASA in June 1998, he reported for training in August 1998.
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor	Soyuz TMA-11 carrying Whitson, Malenchenko, and Sheikh Muszaphar, successfully launched at 13:22 UTC, Wednesday, October 10, 2007.
Patricia Robertson	Selected by NASA in June 1998, Robertson reported for training in August 1998.
Robert A. Parker	Parker was director of the Division of Policy and Plans for the Office of Space Flight at NASA Headquarters from January 1991 to December 1991.
Dale D. Myers	In 1963 Myers migrated to Rockwell International, and the following year he began contract work for NASA's space program.
George H. Mahon	Gerald R. Ford, Jr., of -LSB- -LSB- Michigan U. S. Representative Gerald R. Ford, Jr., of -LSB- -LSB- Michigan, MSFC director Wernher von Braun, Representative George H. Mahon, and NASA Administrator James E. Webb, visit the Marshall Space Flight Center on April 28, 1964, for a briefing on the Saturn program. -RSB- -RSB-
Patrick G. Forrester	Forrester was assigned to NASA at the Johnson Space Center as an aerospace engineer in July 1993.
Valentina Tereshkova	Nikita Khrushchev, Valentina Tereshkova, -LSB- -LSB- Pavel Popovich and Yury Gagarin at the Lenin Mausoleum, during a celebration honoring the Soviet cosmonauts, 1963 -RSB- -RSB- Although Tereshkova experienced nausea and physical discomfort for much of the flight, she orbited the earth 48 times and spent almost three days in space.
Jeffrey A. Hoffman	Hoffman made his third space flight as payload commander and mission specialist on STS-46, July 31-August 8, 1992, on the Space Shuttle Atlantis.
Mark Kelly	Mark Kelly and his brother Scott were both selected to be Shuttle pilots by NASA in 1996.
Kathryn P. Hire	Hire flew as Mission Specialist-2 on STS-90 Neurolab (1998) and logged over 381 hours in space.
Mary Ellen Weber	Weber was selected by NASA in the fourteenth group of astronauts in 1992.
John M. Grunsfeld	In January 2012, he returned to NASA and is currently serving as associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD).
John M. Fabian	On his second mission, Fabian flew on STS-51-G which launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 17, 1985, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on June 24, 1985, after completing approximately 170 hours of space flight.
Michel Tognini	In November 1986 he reported to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Star City, Russia, for alternate cosmonaut training, including EVA, for the Soviet-French ARAGATZ mission.
Charles Simonyi	In early 2006, Simonyi expressed interest in becoming a space tourist and signed agreements with the space tourism company, Space Adventures, Ltd., for a ten-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
William Walden Rubey	He participated in the scientific examination of the Apollo program returned lunar samples up until 1971.
Ronald J. Grabe	Effective April 11, 1994, Grabe left NASA and the Air Force to join Orbital Sciences Corporation, Dulles, Virginia.
Wally Schirra	Mercury On April 2, 1959, Schirra was chosen as one of the original seven American astronauts.
Eugene Merle Shoemaker	On July 31, 1999, some of his ashes were carried to the Moon by the Lunar Prospector space probe in a capsule designed by Carolyn Porco.
Kalpana Chawla	Her first space mission began on November 19, 1997 as part of the six-astronaut crew that flew the Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87.
Dewey Smith	In August 2007, Smith took part as a habitat technician in the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 13 (NEEMO 13) mission, one of a series of NASA - NOAA missions which use Aquarius as an analog environment for space exploration.
Richard N. Richards	In 2007, Richards retired from Boeing as the Deputy Program Manager for Space Shuttle, and now lives in Houston, Texas.
Paolo A. Nespoli	On December 15, 2010, Nespoli flew aboard the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station with the Russian cosmonaut Dmitri Kondratyev and NASA's astronaut Catherine Coleman.
Renata Akhunova	In 2010 Akhunova took a position of the Deputy to the Head of Zworykin Project, a Russian government long-term federal program named in honor of a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology Vladimir K. Zworykin, which aim is to support young Russian scientists and entrepreneurs.
James Buchli	Buchli became a NASA astronaut in August 1979, selected as part of Group 8.
Scott E. Parazynski	A veteran of five Space Shuttle flights and seven spacewalks, Parazynski's latest mission was STS-120 in October, 2007 -- highlighted by a dramatic, unplanned EVA to repair a live solar array.
Kalpana Chawla	On January 16, 2003, Chawla finally returned to space aboard Columbia on the ill-fated STS-107 mission.
Arthur Rudolph	The first Saturn V launch lifted off from Kennedy Space Center and performed flawlessly on November 9, 1967, Rudolph's birthday.
Mark L. Polansky	Polansky was the commander of the STS-127 mission, which launched aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on July 15, 2009 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Philippe Perrin	Perrin reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996.
John Holliman	In May 1999, NASA dedicated the Launch Complex 39 Press Site auditorium at the Kennedy Space Center in Holliman's name.
Michael Coats	In February 1985, Coats was selected as the commander of STS-61-H, which was subsequently canceled after the'' Challenger'' accident.
Fyodor Yurchikhin	On 23 July 2007, Yurchikhin participated in his third spacewalk along with NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson.
Mark N. Brown	Brown next flew on the crew of STS-48 aboard the Orbiter Discovery which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on September 12, 1991.
Mark N. Brown	In December 1985, he was assigned to the crew of STS-61-N, a Department of Defense mission which was subsequently canceled due to the'' Challenger'' disaster.
Aleksandr Kaleri	In 1992, he participated in a 145-day flight aboard the Soyuz-TM-14 spacecraft and the Mir.
Gene Kranz	He was the Flight Director for Apollo 11, during the moment when the Lunar Module Eagle landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Dafydd Williams	In February 1994 he participated in a 7-day space mission simulation.
Kevin A. Ford	Ford became commander of Expedition 34 on 18 November 2012 with the departure from the ISS of the Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft, which returned the Expedition 33 crew to Earth.
George Low	In April 1967, following the Apollo 1 fire, he was named Manager of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office (ASPO) where he was responsible for directing the changes to the Apollo spacecraft necessary to make it flight worthy.
Anatoly Solovyev	In 1987, he was the commander of a back-up Soviet-Syrian crew for an expedition that visited the Mir Station.
Paul Calle	Together with his son Chris, Calle returned to the subject of space exploration with a pair of stamps issued in 1994 in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and the first manned moon landing.
Roger B. Chaffee	On 21 March 1966, he received his first spaceflight assignment as Pilot for the first manned Apollo flight, AS-204, along with Command Pilot Grissom and Senior Pilot White.
John A. Powers	Powers' experience with public affairs caught the attention of the newly formed NASA, and he was detailed to NASA's Space Task Group in April 1959 as its public affairs officer at the request of T. Keith Glennan, NASA's first administrator.
George Mueller (NASA)	Wernher von Braun, -LSB- -LSB- Charles W. Mathews, and Lt. Gen. Samuel C. Phillips relax in the Launch Control Center following the successful Apollo 11 liftoff on July 16, 1969. -RSB- -RSB-
Fred Singer	In April 1958, he was appointed as a consultant to the House Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration, which was preparing to hold hearings on President Eisenhower's proposal for a new agency to handle space research, and a month later received the Ohio State University's Distinguished Alumnus Award.
Yuri Gidzenko	He was Launched on April 25, 2002 on the Soyuz TM-34 (Soyuz 4 Taxi Crew) mission along with ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori and South African Space Tourist Mark Shuttleworth.
John Oliver Creighton	In March 1989 he was assigned to command STS-36 but continued to serve as Head of the Mission Support Branch in the Astronaut Office until commencing full-time training for his upcoming flight.
G. David Low	In 1993, Low was a member of the Russian Integration Team which worked for several months in Crystal City, Virginia to define the changes from the old Space Station Freedom to the new International Space Station.
Story Musgrave	He first flew on STS-6, which launched from the Kennedy Space Center, on April 4, 1983, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California, on April 9, 1983.
Dominic L. Pudwill Gorie	In 2001, Gorie was commander of mission STS-108, a visit to the International Space Station.
Christopher Loria	Selected by NASA in April 1996 as an Astronaut Candidate, Loria reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996.
John William Davis (Georgia politician)	House Committee on Science and Astronautics visit the -LSB- -LSB- Marshall Space Flight Center on March 9, 1962 to gather first-hand information of the nation's space exploration program. -RSB- -RSB-
Gerald J. Fishman	Fishman joined NASA at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville as a Research Scientist in 1974.
Boris Volynov	In June 2006, he visited the Kennedy Space Center.
Joseph A. Walker	That same year, NACA became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and in 1960, Walker became the first NASA pilot to fly the X-15, and the second X-15 pilot, following Scott Crossfield, the manufacturer's test pilot.
G. David Low	On his first mission, Low was a crew member on STS-32 which launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on January 9, 1990.
Sergey Alexandrovich Volkov	On June 7, 2011 (UTC), Volkov returned to space aboard Soyuz TMA-02M to join the crew of Expedition 28.
Yury Usachov	From January 8, 1994 to July 9, 1994, he served as Board Engineer on Space Station Mir.
James M. Kelly	Selected by NASA in April 1996, Kelly reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996.
Dmitri Kondratyev	Kondratyev was assigned to the ISS Expedition 5 Backup crew as Soyuz Commander and ISS Flight Engineer and successfully completed that training in 2003.
Steven Smith (astronaut)	Smith returned to the Hubble Space Telescope and performed two spacewalks as the Payload Commander for the Discovery mission, STS-103 in December 1999.
James C. Adamson	In November 1985, he was selected to the crew of a Department of Defense mission, which was subsequently delayed due to the'' Challenger'' accident.
Donald R. McMonagle	McMonagle flew as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on Department of Defense mission STS-39 in April 1991.
Donn F. Eisele	He occupied the command module pilot seat during the flight of Apollo 7 in 1968.
Ken Mattingly	The swapout from Apollo 13 placed Mattingly on the crew that would fly Apollo 16 (April 16 -- 27, 1972), the fifth manned lunar landing mission.
Timothy Creamer	In September 2006, Creamer served as an aquanaut during the NEEMO 11 mission aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory, living and working underwater for seven days.
Don L. Lind	From 1964, Lind worked at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as a space physicist.
Joseph P. Kerwin	Kerwin was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in June 1965.
Henry Hartsfield	Hartsfield was next spacecraft commander of STS-41-D which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 30, 1984.
Livingston L. Holder, Jr.	He was assigned to fly as a military payload specialist on the Space Shuttle, but could not fly in space due to the'' Challenger'' accident in 1986.
Homer Hickam	He began employment with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1981 as an aerospace engineer.
George Mueller (NASA)	Hailed as one of NASA's'' most brilliant and fearless managers'', he was instrumental in introducing the all-up testing philosophy for the Saturn V launch vehicle, which ensured the success of the Apollo program in landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth by the end of 1969.
Guy Gardner (astronaut)	Gardner was selected as a pilot astronaut by NASA in May 1980.