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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...
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    American astronauts. The seven astronauts who took part in the Increments, Norman Thagard, Shannon Lucid, John Blaha, Jerry Linenger, Michael Foale, David Wolf...
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    astronaut to launch on a Soyuz spacecraft and board Mir, Norman Thagard, for the American Thagard Increment aboard the station, which was the first Increment...
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    Frederick Hauck, pilot; and Sally Ride, John M. Fabian and Norman Thagard, all mission specialists. Thagard conducted medical tests concerning Space adaptation...
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    and Nikolai Budarin to the station and recovered Increment astronaut Norman Thagard. Atlantis returned to Earth on July 7 with a crew of eight. It was the...
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    five MDs of the 1978 and 1980 astronaut selections—Fisher, Seddon and Norman Thagard from the 1978 group, and Bill Fisher and Jim Bagian from the 1980 group—would...
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    McNair Mike Mullane George Nelson Ellison Onizuka Judith Resnik Sally Ride Rhea Seddon Robert Stewart Kathryn Sullivan Norman Thagard James van Hoften...
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    McNair Mike Mullane George Nelson Ellison Onizuka Judith Resnik Sally Ride Rhea Seddon Robert Stewart Kathryn Sullivan Norman Thagard James van Hoften...
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    McNair Mike Mullane George Nelson Ellison Onizuka Judith Resnik Sally Ride Rhea Seddon Robert Stewart Kathryn Sullivan Norman Thagard James van Hoften...
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    space with a solo mission on the Vostok 6 in 1963. On 14 March 1995, Norman Thagard became the first American to ride to space on board a Russian launch...
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    McNair Mike Mullane George Nelson Ellison Onizuka Judith Resnik Sally Ride Rhea Seddon Robert Stewart Kathryn Sullivan Norman Thagard James van Hoften...
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    806 lb) Crew Crew size 7 Members Ronald J. Grabe Stephen S. Oswald Norman Thagard William F. Readdy David C. Hilmers Roberta Bondar Ulf Merbold Start...
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    Nations peacekeeping mission in Somalia, ends. March 14 – Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a Russian launch...
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    Crew Crew size 5 Members David M. Walker Ronald J. Grabe Mark C. Lee Norman Thagard Mary L. Cleave Start of mission Launch date May 4, 1989, 18:46:59 UTC...
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    included spacecraft commander, Robert Overmyer; mission specialists, Norman Thagard, William E. Thornton, and Don Lind; and payload specialists, Taylor...
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    astronaut Shannon Lucid to the orbital laboratory to replace NASA astronaut Norman Thagard. STS-76 also carried a SPACEHAB single module along with Lucid, and...
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    from the armed services, and four others (Terry Hart, David Griggs, Norman Thagard and Ox van Hoften) had previously served in the military but were civilians...
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  • Kuwait, are arrested after straying into Iraq. March 14 – Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a Russian launch...
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    McNair Mike Mullane George Nelson Ellison Onizuka Judith Resnik Sally Ride Rhea Seddon Robert Stewart Kathryn Sullivan Norman Thagard James van Hoften...
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    Abbey decided that the five MDs of the 1978 and 1980 astronaut groups – Norman Thagard, Anna Fisher and Seddon from the 1978 group, and Bill Fisher and Jim...
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    McNair Mike Mullane George Nelson Ellison Onizuka Judith Resnik Sally Ride Rhea Seddon Robert Stewart Kathryn Sullivan Norman Thagard James van Hoften...
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    Discovery's departure, the EO-18 crew, including the first US cosmonaut Norman Thagard, arrived in Soyuz TM-21. The EO-17 crew left a few days later, with...
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  • 434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced. March 14: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a Russian launch...
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    Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin to Mir and returned astronaut Norman Thagard and cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Gennady Strekalov. The joint U...
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  • cartoonists Bud Grace and Doug Marlette. Other notables include: astronauts Norman Thagard and Winston Scott; scientists Sylvia Earle, Anne Rudloe and Eric J....
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    January 1995 Lucid and Blaha joined fellow astronauts Bonnie Dunbar and Norman Thagard for Mir training in Star City. On March 30, 1995, NASA announced that...
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    Space Station. The first NASA astronaut to launch on a Soyuz rocket was Norman Thagard, as part of the Shuttle-Mir program. Launching on March 14, 1995, on...
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    McNair Mike Mullane George Nelson Ellison Onizuka Judith Resnik Sally Ride Rhea Seddon Robert Stewart Kathryn Sullivan Norman Thagard James van Hoften...
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  • the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Winston Scott – NASA astronaut Norman Thagard – NASA astronaut; flew on three different U.S. Space Shuttles, and on...
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    McNair Mike Mullane George Nelson Ellison Onizuka Judith Resnik Sally Ride Rhea Seddon Robert Stewart Kathryn Sullivan Norman Thagard James van Hoften...
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