Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, (born July 27, 1972, Kuala Lumpur, Malay.), Malaysian orthopedic surgeon who became the first Malaysian to go into space. Dr. Sheikh was selected from 11,435 candidates at the beginning of 2006 for the Malaysian Angkasawan spaceflight program. He came on-board the International Space Station via a...
Patrick Baudry
Patrick Baudry is the most renowned French astronaut, and a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the French Air Force. In 1985 he became the second French citizen in space, after Jean-Loup Chretien, when he flew aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle mission STS-51-G Discovery. Baudry became a CNES astronaut in 1980. For...