Norman Thagard is an American physician, engineer and former United States Marine Corps aviator who flew four Space Shuttle missions before becoming the first American to launch aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, traveling to the Mir space station in 1995 as part of the early Shuttle-Mir cooperative program between NASA and the Russian space agency. His roughly three-month stay aboard Mir helped lay the groundwork for the later International Space Station partnership between the two countries.
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1. Norman Thagard - Wikipedia
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1943-07-03
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July 3, 1943
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an American scientist
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Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft
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eligible for assignment as a mission specialist on future Space Shuttle flights
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Marine Corps officer and naval aviator and NASA astronaut.
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Marine Corps officer and naval aviator and NASA astronaut.
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He is a veteran of five space flights and on March 14, 1995, he became the first American to ride to space on board a Russian vehicle, the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft for the Russian Mir-18 mission.
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