Astronauts from countries with their own recent or small human spaceflight programs who are not covered by the European Space Agency, such as India, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Hungary, Poland, Israel and Saudi Arabia. A person belongs here when the cited article calls them an astronaut of their country. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
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Ilan Ramon - Wikipedia
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Ilan Ramon (Hebrew: אילן רמון; pronounced [(ʔ)iˈlan ʁaˈmon]; June 20, 1954, February 1, 2003) was an Israeli fighter pilot and later the first Israeli astronaut.
Muhammed Faris - Wikipedia
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Muhammed Ahmed Faris (Arabic: محمد أحمد فارس, romanized: Muḥammad ʾAḥmad Fāris; 26 May 1951-19 April 2024) was a Syrian military aviator and astronaut.
Shubhanshu Shukla - Wikipedia
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Shubhanshu Shukla AC is a group captain in the Indian Air Force (IAF) and gaganyatri (astronaut) with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
Sultan Al Neyadi - Wikipedia
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Sultan Saif Al Neyadi (Arabic: سلطان النيادي; born 23 May 1981) is the UAE Minister of State for Youth Affairs and an astronaut.
Tibor Kapu - Wikipedia
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Tibor Kapu (Hungarian: Kapu Tibor) (born 5 November 1991) is a Hungarian mechanical engineer and astronaut.
Pedro Duque (Wikipedia)
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Pedro Francisco Duque Duque, OF, OMSE (born Madrid, 14 March 1963) is a Spanish astronaut and aeronautics engineer who served as Minister of Science from 2018 to 2021 and member of the Congress of Deputies, representing Alicante, from May 2019 until February 2020.
Wikipedia: Rayyanah Barnawi
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Rayyanah Barnawi (Arabic: ريانة برناوي; born September 1988) is a biomedical researcher and astronaut.
Wikipedia: Nora Al Matrooshi
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Nora Al Matrooshi (Arabic: نورا المطروشي; born 1993) is an Emirati astronaut who was selected as part of the second batch of the UAE Astronaut Programme.
Wikipedia: Mariam Fardous
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Fardous (Arabic: مريم حامد خليل فردوس; born 15 September 1984) is a Saudi astronaut, selected as a back-up astronaut for Axiom Mission 2 by the Saudi Space Commission; her selection was officially announced on February 12, 2023.
Alper Gezeravcı (Wikipedia)
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Alper Gezeravcı (born 2 December 1979) is a military pilot and the first Turkish astronaut.
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