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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 Earl Thagard (Marianna, 3 luglio 1943) è un ex astronauta e medico statunitense. Nel 1995 è stato il primo americano ad andare nello spazio a bordo di un veicolo russo (Sojuz TM-21) e per questo può essere considerato il primo cosmonauta statunitense.
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. Married to the former Rex Kirby Johnson of South Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. They have three sons.
Norm Thagard s NASA-1 mission was all about learning. Thagard symbolized the fledgling Shuttle-Mir Program as he launched from Kazakhstan on a Soyuz rocket with his Commander Vladimir Dezhurov and Flight Engineer Gennady Strekalov.
7 feb 2024 · As an American record it held up longer, broken by NASA astronaut Norman E. Thagard during his 115-day flight aboard the Russian space station Mir between March and July 1995. Operational lessons learned from Skylab proved invaluable for the Shuttle-Mir and International Space Station programs.
Thagard, Norman Earl. Credit: www.spacefacts.de. American physician mission specialist astronaut 1978-1996. First American to fly aboard a Russian spacecraft. Grew up in Jacksonville, Florida. Status: Inactive; Active 1978-1996. Born: 1943-07-03. Spaceflights: 5 . Total time in space: 140.56 days. Birth Place: Marianna, Florida.
Thagard became the first American to train on Russian soil, the first to enter space aboard a non-American craft, and the first American occupant of the Mir. He helped conduct 28 experiments in the course of the 115-day flight.
