This astronaut is the first Cricket to go to space.

First Cricket

STS-90 (Columbia)

This dedicated research flight of Columbia was Spacelab's final mission. It was called Neurolab and examined the effects of microgravity on the nervous system. The mission was a 26 experiment partnership between six space agencies and seven U.S. research institutes.

The first reusable launch and landing spacecraft, the Space Shuttle began a new chapter of human space exploration. It launched like a rocket but landed on a runway like a plane. Shuttle crews deployed dozens of commercial satellites and two interplanetary probes to Venus and Jupiter. The Shuttle served as a mini space station and hosted hundreds of biomedical, psychological, physiological, materials science, and physics experiments that have directly benefited life on Earth. The five flight-worthy Shuttles -- Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour -- flew 135 missions over 30 years. The Shuttles helped construct the Russian Mir space station and brought nearly 80% of the International Space Station to orbit. Shuttles also deployed and serviced the Hubble Space Telescope.

Space Shuttle

One Thousand Five Hundred Crickets

United States of America

NASA

This astronaut crossed the Kármán Line (100 km), the internationally accepted boundary of space.

Crossed Kármán Line

This astronaut has spent over a month in space.

Space Resident

STS-58 (Columbia)

During this 14-day flight, Columbia's crew performed numerous experiments to study how the human body adapts to microgravity.

STS-76 (Atlantis)

The third Space Shuttle docking to the Russian space station Mir delivered Mir's first woman resident, NASA astronaut Shannon Lucid.

Richard A. Searfoss

This astronaut visited the International Space Station.

ISS Visitor

This astronaut is in the top 5% for total spacewalking time.

Elite Spacewalker

STS-109 (Columbia)

The fourth servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope replaced and upgraded science instruments and swapped out the telescopes solar arrays. Columbia also reboosted Hubble's orbit.

STS-123 (Endeavour)

During this first of three Space Shuttle flights to assemble the Japanese Kibo laboratory complex, Endeavour's crew delivered the Japanese Experiment Logistics Module to the International Space Station. The mission also rotated an ISS crewmember and brought Canada's human-esque DEXTRE robot to the outpost.

STS-78 (Columbia)

This international Life and Microgravity Spacelab mission from NASA, ESA, and Canada featured more than 40 experiments designed to validate long duration space station missions.

Richard M. Linnehan

STS-106 (Atlantis)

This was the third of three missions to prepare the International Space Station for permanent human habitation, delivering and unpacking vital supplies and connecting cables and data lines to Russia's newly arrived Zvezda service module.

STS-125 (Atlantis)

The fifth and final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission. The flight upgraded Hubble's systems, ensuring the telescope would work until at least the early 2020s. The crew also installed equipment to permit a yet-unplanned commercial servicing mission to the telescope.

Scott D. Altman

STS-118 (Endeavour)

This Space Shuttle flight fulfilled the Challenger mission goal of putting a teacher in space when Barbara Morgan, Christa McAuliffe's backup, flew on the Shuttle built to take Challenger's place. Morgan recorded lessons and talked to school kids during the flight in addition to her duties on the mission. The flight delivered supplies and the S5 spacer truss to the International Space Station and continued the electrical rewiring of the outpost.

Dafydd Williams

Canada

STS-130 (Endeavour)

Endeavour's crew delivered the final NASA connecting module, Tranquility, and a 360 degree viewing port called the Cupola to the International Space Station and also relocated an ISS docking port.

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