Astronauts USA Made by : Arzamaskina Milana and Zamaltdinova Alina

Harrison Schmitt

town of Derry of the State of New Hampshire, on

November 18, 1923 in family of the colonel of army. In the early childhood he very much loved planes. Charles Lindberg's flight through Atlantic inspired him for the rest of life.
For participation in the Mercury project 110 candidates from among the best military pilots were taken. In 1959 Shepard was invited as the member of the program. He made short fifteen-minute weeds on May 5, 1961. Three years later doctors diagnosed Menyer's disease for Alan. He returned to space in 1971 the commander of a mission Apollo 14. The team spent thirty three hours on a lunar surface and collected soil samples.
Alan Shepard died on July 21, 1998 in Monterrey from leukemia.

Sully Rayd. She was the third woman who made a

space trip. The first female US astronaut - Sallie Kristen Rayd - was born on May 26, 1951 in Los Angeles, the State of California, the USA. Preparation for its first flight took five years. The first is weeded by Sully Rayd took place on June 18, 1983 when it departed as a part of crew of a mission "Challenger of STS-7". Test of the robotic manipulator for expansion and removal from a satellite orbit was the main task of crew during the mission. During this space flight Rayd operated a 15-meter hand manipulator of the Challenger shuttle by means of which put the satellite to orbit. Sully Rayd carried out in space of 147 hours.

born in Uapakonete, in the USA, the State of Ohio,

on August 5, 1930. On July 16, 1969 "Apollo 11" under Armstrong's command started with a rocket launcher on Cape Canaveral. Together with the commander onboard a starprobe vehicle there were Michael Collins and Edwin Oldrin. Hundred three hours of flight later in an orbit of the Moon there was a detachment of the landing module to Oldrin and Armstrong onboard who soon successfully landed on the Moon in the sea of Tranquility. Neil Armstrong left the first of a starprobe vehicle, and his colleague filmed this historical moment. At the same time the captain of "Apollo 11" said the well-known phrase which sounded on the air in touch with Earth:
"It is one small step for the person, but huge jump for all mankind".

the globe, the second time became history when in 77

years became the oldest person who visited space. On October 29, 1998, being still senator, it once again became history, having departed on the Discovery shuttle to become the oldest space traveler. Flight lasted nine days. Glenn worked as the specialist in payload and participated in experiments which had to check how his 77-year body will cope with zero gravity. During flight the shuttle 134 times flew about Earth, having passed 5.8 million km in 213 hours and 44 minutes. In 2012 Glenn got a presidential medal of Freedom.

American astronauts Eugene Sernan and Harrison Schmitt as a part

of crew of "Apollo 17" in 1972 stayed. In total astronauts were on the surface of the terrestrial satellite of 75 hours. During this time they made three exits to a lunar surface lasting 22 hours. They were the last who visited the Moon, and, according to some information, left on the Moon a small disk with the inscription "Here the Person Completed the First Stage of Development of the Moon, December, 1972".