Search results
January 3, 1996. Norman Earl Thagard (born July 3, 1943; Capt, USMC, Ret.), is an American scientist and former U.S. Marine Corps officer and naval aviator and NASA astronaut. He is the first American to ride to space on board a Russian vehicle, and can be considered the first American cosmonaut.
Norman E. Thagard was born in Marianna, Florida, in 1943. He came to his Shuttle-Mir experience as an example of what many American parents preach to their children: "You can be whatever you want to be if you work for it." Thagard had told his high school ...
7 de feb. de 2024 · Right: NASA astronaut Norman E. Thagard during his American record-breaking 115-day flight aboard Mir. As for the record for longest spaceflight, Skylab 4’s 84-day mark held for four years, when Soviet cosmonauts Yuri V. Romanenko and Georgi M. Grechko surpassed it, spending 96 days aboard the Salyut 6 space station from December ...
Biographical Data. Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. Houston, Texas 77058. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NORMAN E. THAGARD (M.D.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) PERSONAL DATA: Born July 3, 1943, in Marianna, Florida, but considers Jacksonville, Florida, to be his hometown.
16 de sept. de 1998 · Norman E. Thagard. Interviewed by Rebecca Wright. Houston, Texas –16 September 1998. Wright: Good morning. It's September 16, 1998. We're speaking with Dr. Norman Thagard as part of the Shuttle-Mir Oral History Program. This is Rebecca Wright, Carol Butler, and Paul Rollins. We thank you again for coming in to visit with us about this.
Norman Thagard was the first American astronaut to train in Russia, the first to launch aboard a Soyuz (with cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Gennady Strekalov ), and the first to complete a residency aboard Mir, setting an American space endurance record of 115 days in orbit, March 14 - July 7, 1995. Thagard returned to Earth with the Space ...
23 de abr. de 1998 · Tallahassee, Florida – 23 April 1998. Dinkel: This is Rich Dinkel. I'm here with Dr. Norman E. Thagard in Tallahassee, Florida, on the campus of Florida State University. The time is 1:08 p.m. Today's date is April 23, 1998. We're here today to discuss Dr. Thagard's early years prior to NASA. I must admit at the beginning of this interview ...
