| Name(s)
|
Appeared in
|
Program / Mission / Spacecraft
|
Fictional date
|
| (1990–1999)
|
Steven Bishop (CDR)
James Dobbins (PLT)
Henry "Hank" Henshaw, Dr.
Terri Henshaw
|
DC Comics (1990– )
|
Space Shuttle
Excalibur
|
Contemporary
|
| Excalibur is blasted by solar flare on reentry, beginning Hank Henshaw's transformation into Cyborg Superman.[1]
|
| General Yogure
|
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
|
Space Shuttle
USA
|
Early 1990s
|
| Assists the Turtles to prevent Krang and Shredder from heating up the Earth.[2]
|
Matt Gosling (CDR)
Paul Balchin (PLT)
Stella Richards (Payload Manager)
|
Torus (1990), novel
|
Space Shuttle
Colorado
|
Early 2000s
|
| Crew of Space Shuttle on a mission to retrieve derelict satellites from geosynchronous orbit.[3]
|
(US) Hes Adams
Heinemann
O'Grady
Marshall
Wilson
(First names not provided for the last four US crew)
(UK) Michael Dreyfuss, Maj.
|
Westwind (1990), novel
|
Space Shuttle
Argos
|
Contemporary/Near Future
|
| Anglo-American crew of a routine shuttle mission that ends disastrously when the shuttle's systems fail on final approach.[4]
|
Shuttle-C:
Chuck Conard, Maj.
Coates, Capt.
Byron, Col.
Gibbons, Col.
Unnamed Marine colonel
Nomad:
Donald J. Pollock, Col.
Chuck Conard, Maj.
|
Hawkeye (1991), novel
|
Space Shuttle
Shuttle-C
Nomad Spaceplane
|
Contemporary/Near Future
|
| Spy satellites belonging to the major powers are destroyed by an unknown foe.[5][a]
|
Freedom:
Tom Jenkins, Cmdr. (US)
Julia Magriffe, MS (Canada)
Di Lella, Dr. (Italy)
Detrich (Germany)
Two unnamed astronauts
Edo:
Sekigawa, Cmdr. (Japan)
Kroeger (MS) (Germany)
Unnamed crewman
Nomad (1):
Jefferson "Sonny" Cleary, Capt.
Frank Rowan
Nomad (2):
Frank Rowan
Gates, Capt.
Nomad (3):
Jefferson "Sonny" Cleary, Capt.
James Henry Mackenzie, Maj.
|
Cobra (1991), novel
|
Space Station
Freedom
Space Shuttle (Japanese)
Edo
Nomad Spaceplane
|
Contemporary/Near Future[b]
|
| A multi-national conspiracy threatens Space Station Freedom and its crew in an attempt to gain control of space.[6]
|
Bégonhès (Flight Commander) (no first name given)
DeMilo (Pilot) (no first name given)
Lucie Blanche, Dr. (Biologist)
Louis Meyer (Scientist)
Molino (Politician) (no first name given)
|
Nous trois (aka We Three) (1992), novel
|
Unnamed space agency (France):
Space Shuttle
|
Contemporary (Summer)
|
| French crew on satellite launch-and-repair mission aboard borrowed American orbiter. Launch from Guiana Space Centre.[7][8][9]
|
| Calvin Carlton, Col.
|
Nurses
Moon over Miami (1992), TV
|
NASA
|
Contemporary
|
| Astronaut who visits Community Medical Center.[10]
|
Trikon:
Daniel Tighe, Cmdr.
Lorraine Renoir, Dr.
Freddie Aviles
Lance Muncie
Kurt Jaeckle
Carla Sue Gamble
Russell Cramer
Jeffries
Stanley (first names not given for the last two)
Also scientists and technicians from Japan, United Europe and the United States
Constellation:
N. J. Wiliamson, Cmdr.
Williams
Duncan
Yeager:
Unnamed pilot and co-pilot
|
The Trikon Deception (1992), novel
|
Space Station
Trikon
Space Shuttle
Constellation
Spaceplane
Yeager
|
Near Future
15 August 1998 – 7 December 1998
|
| Personnel who work aboard and support the world's first commercial space-station.[11]
|
| Natasha "Tasha" Teranova
|
Wonder Woman (1992), comic books
|
Russian/Israeli expedition
|
Contemporary
|
| Cosmonaut rescued by Wonder Woman.[12]
|
| Youri Souzof, Lt.
|
Le Cosmonaute oublié (1993), chapter book
|
Mir 92
|
Contemporary/Near Future
|
| After being stranded on space station for a year and a half, cosmonaut receives extraterrestrial visitor.[13]
|
| Steve Thomas (Pilot)
|
Dark Universe (1993), film
|
Kendrick Aerospace Industries:[c]
Nautilus (space shuttle)
|
Contemporary
|
| Astronaut is transformed into monster when alien spores infest spacecraft prior to reentry.[14][15]
|
Freedom:
Alex Seerey, Col.
John Quanty, Maj.
Hugh Lyghtson
Scott Dawkins
Joseph King
Celia Hereson
Lee Wynn
Judith Cianta
Lincoln:
Two unnamed astronauts (Commander and Co-Pilot)
|
Ghost Beyond Earth (1993), novel
|
Space Station
Freedom
Space Shuttle
Lincoln
|
Contemporary/Near Future
|
| Space station crew is attacked by a diabolical entity in orbit. The survivors are rescued by the space shuttle Lincoln.[16]
|
Peter Carter (US)
Barbara Stockton Urie, Dr. (Canada)
Four unnamed astronauts
|
Minus Time (1993), novel
|
Space Shuttle
Space station
|
January 1989
|
| Carter and Urie undertake long-duration mission aboard space station. Space Shuttle Victory is mentioned as having exploded.[17]
|
| Vladimir Rostov, Col.
|
Tarzan
Tarzan and the Russian Invasion (1993/1994), TV
|
Soviet Union
|
Contemporary ("Thursday the 23rd")
|
| Cosmonaut lost in jungle for three years is unaware that Cold War has ended.
|
Steve Swain, Capt. (USAF)
Perry Housman, Col. (USAF)
|
The Hardy Boys Casefiles
Mission: Mayhem, A Taste for Terror (1994), novels
|
Space Shuttle
|
Contemporary
|
| Former astronauts instruct Frank and Joe Hardy's team at Space Academy in Huntsville, Alabama. Later, Housman invites the Hardys to explorers' conference in Tunisia.[18][19]
|
| Himeko Nayotake (Japan)
|
Sailor Moon S: The Movie (1994), TV, and Volume 11 "Lover of Princess Kaguya", manga
|
Space Shuttle
Luna Frontier
|
Contemporary
|
| Nayotake is selected to travel on an American space expedition just before Princess Kaguya attacks the Earth, although she is oblivious to the Princess's existence and disregards it as a myth.
|
Buzz Aldrin
Homer Simpson
Race Banyon
|
The Simpsons
Deep Space Homer (1994), TV
|
Space Shuttle
Corvair
|
Contemporary
|
| Simpson is drafted as a NASA astronaut for publicity purposes.
|
Starcore:
Peter Corbeau, Dr.
Five unnamed astronauts
Eagle One:
Five unnamed astronauts
|
X-Men
The Phoenix Saga - Part I: Sacrifice (1994), TV
|
Space Shuttle
Starcore
Eagle One (space station)
|
Contemporary
|
| Five of the X-Men — the Beast, Cyclops, Gambit, Jean Grey and Wolverine — replace Starcore's crew to fly to Eagle One, which has been taken over by Erik the Red. Starcore is carrying a "manned close orbital solar probe". Adaptation of the X-Men comics "Dark Phoenix Saga" story arc.[20]
|
Oliver
Bob (USMC?) (PLT)
Sylvie (no last names given)
|
The Blue Ball (1995), play
|
NASA:
Apollo
Space Shuttle
|
Contemporary
|
| Playwright Paul researches play about astronauts in Houston and Florida and attends Bob's space shuttle launch. Bob has flown in space twice before; Sylvie is a member of the standby crew for Bob's mission. Oliver was one of the original group of astronauts but did not fly in space until later; he walked on the Moon in the Sea of Clouds.[21]
|
| David Kennedy
|
High Flight (1995), novel
|
Space Shuttle
|
Contemporary
|
| Former shuttle pilot who now heads a major aeronautics firm.[22]
|
Unnamed astronauts
Space Shuttle:
Emerson
Jensen
Irina (sp.?) (no first names given)
|
Highlander: The Animated Series
The Survivors from Outer Space (1995), TV
|
Space Shuttle (Uxus Mission)
|
Contemporary/Near Future
Future (c. 2700)
|
| Space shuttle returns to Earth after 700 years in space with crew in hibernation. Emerson is an Immortal.[23]
|
| James Monroe
|
The Monroes (1995), TV
|
Space Shuttle
|
Contemporary
|
| Former astronaut, member of powerful Kennedy-like family.
|
Phillips (CDR)
O'Brien (PLT)
Lambert, Dr. (Mission Specialist)
Meyer (Payload Specialist)
(No first names given)
|
My Life as an Afterthought Astronaut (1995), chapter book
|
Space Shuttle
Encounter
Space Station One (International Space Station?)
|
Contemporary/Near Future
|
| 13-year-old Wally McDoogle accidentally stows away aboard shuttle on space station assembly mission. The description of Space Station One seems to imply that it is the ISS.[24]
|
| Sergei Orlov, Gen.
|
Op Center: Mirror Image (1995), novel
|
Soyuz
|
Contemporary
|
| Veteran cosmonaut (one of whose missions seems to have been based on Soyuz 33), assigned to command Russia's new Combined Operations Center located beneath the Hermitage Museum.[25]
|
Mark Fortunato
Unnamed astronauts
|
The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks Goes Up In Space (1995), chapter book
|
Space Shuttle
Spacelab
|
Contemporary
|
| Animate plant flies aboard shuttle on Spacelab mission.[26]
|
Atlantis:
Rick Spencer
Pierre Renaud (Canada) (Payload Specialist)
Three unnamed astronauts
Discovery:
Tessa "Tess" McClain
Yoshiko Sugano (Japan) (Payload Specialist)
Four unnamed astronauts
Apollo:
Rick Spencer (CDR)
Yoshiko Sugano (CMP)
Tessa McClain (LMP)
|
Abandon in Place (1996), novella
|
Space Shuttle
Atlantis
Discovery
Spacelab
Apollo
The Spirit of Hope (CSM)/Faith (LM)
|
Near Future (2000s)
|
| Shortly after Neil Armstrong's death, ghostly Saturn Vs begin launching from Kennedy Space Center. Faith lands at edge of Aitken Basin. Expanded into novel in 2000.[27][28]
|
Henry J. "Bull" Eckert, Col. (Chief of the Astronaut Office)
Ezekiel "Zeke" Beaumont, Capt.
Barbara DeSantos, Lt. Cmdr.
Jack Riles, Maj.
Tamara St. James (Mission Specialist)
Reginald Warren, Maj.
|
The Cape (1996–7), TV
|
Space Shuttle
|
Contemporary
|
| NASA career astronauts.[29]
|
Monte Beaman (CDR)
Victor Lutz (PLT)
Shannon Thorpe (Mission Specialist)
RoxeAnn Karch (Payload Specialist)
Tod Cochran (Payload Specialist)
Elliot Andrew Schroeder (Junior Astronaut/Payload Specialist)
|
Countdown (1996), novel
|
Space Shuttle
Endeavour (STS-97)
|
Contemporary/Near Future
|
| 14-year-old Elliot Schroeder flies aboard Endeavour on Mission to Planet Earth flight as NASA's first Junior Astronaut.[30]
|
Aquarius II mission:
Nicholas T. Saxon, Capt. (USAF)
"Murph" Murphy
Thompson
Unnamed personnel
Aquarius VII:
Joseph Shay, Cmdr.
Bill Powell
Rice
Zimmerman
Jackson
Deborah Saxon
|
Dark Breed (1996), film
|
Aquarius II (space station)
Space Shuttle
Aquarius VII (Omega Forces mission)
|
Contemporary
|
| Aquarius VII astronauts return from secret military mission infested by parasitic aliens. Nick Saxon was the first Aquarius mission commander and led disastrous special forces mission to secret Aquarius II space station four years earlier.[31]
|
Endeavour:
Lori Kirsten (CDR)
Henry Janesh (PLT)
Chris Terence, Dr. (Mission Specialist #1)
Dirk Rodriguez (Mission Specialist #2)
Sharon Goldman (Mission Specialist)
Harold Spearman (Mission Specialist)
J. T. Murphy (Mission Specialist)
Apollo II:
Lori Kirsten (Pilot)
Chris Terence
International Space Station:
Tatiana Haldin (Russia) (Commander)
Peter Mikhailovich Denisov (Russia) (Engineer)
François Raymond (France) (Mission Specialist)
Jiro Kawaguchi (Japan) (Mission Specialist)
|
Encounter with Tiber (1996), novel
|
Space Shuttle
Endeavour
Apollo II
International Space Station
|
2002
2006
|
| Shuttle carrying Habitation Module to the ISS experiences engine failure and crashes in Atlantic Ocean. Four years later, Kirsten and Terence arrive on ISS as Earth receives alien signal from Alpha Centauri.[d][32]
|
Adam Freis, Col.
Atlantis:
NASA, Marc Franklin, Dr. (CDR)
Vic Green, Lt. Col. (PLT)
Arlan Burns, Maj.
Frank Purvis
FKA, Alexandra Koslovsky (MS)
Orlov
Nichi
(First names not given for the last two crew members)
|
Ignition (1996), novel
|
Space Shuttle
Atlantis
|
Contemporary
|
| As the Space Shuttle Atlantis prepares to lift off on a resupply mission to Mir, extortionists take over Cape Kennedy and threaten to blow up the shuttle and its crew on the launch pad unless a ransom is paid.[33][34]
|
Atkins, Lt. Cmdr. (USN)
Recovery One:
Russell, Maj. (CDR)
Mark Lowrey, Lt. Cmdr. (USN) (PLT)
Mission Specialists 1 and 2 (unnamed)
|
JAG
Recovery (1996), TV
|
Space Shuttle
Atlantis (Recovery One)
|
1996
|
| Atkins is killed while training as pilot of shuttle mission to be launched from Vandenberg AFB. JAG investigators Harmon Rabb and Meg Austin try to determine who is responsible so that the shuttle can launch to place a spy satellite in its proper orbit.
|
Dimitri
Igor (no last names given)
|
Majorettes in Space (Des majorettes dans l'espace) (1996), short film
|
Soyuz 27
|
Contemporary
|
| Cosmonauts in space without condoms.[35]
|
John Randall Griswold
Robert Merchan
|
The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo
The Missing Astronaut (1996), TV
|
NASA:
Alpha 7
Space Shuttle:
Universe 3
Encounter
|
Contemporary
|
| Griswold is kidnapped from party at Mike Woo's bed and breakfast in Cocoa Beach, Florida; Shelby Woo investigates. Merchan is in charge of scientific research for NASA; he was scrubbed from Alpha 7 mission due to head cold and replaced by Griswold.
|
John Russell, Maj.
Soyuz:
S. R. Hadden
|
Contact (1997), film
|
Soyuz
|
Contemporary
|
| Billionaire industrialist Hadden's privately financed spaceflight to Mir. Russell is a former astronaut who drops out of consideration as the passenger for the Machine built from alien blueprints.[36][37]
|
NASA:
Dermott "Dusty" Hooper[e]
Martin Bruce, Col. (USAF/CIA?)
Tim Garvey (Chief Astronaut)
E. "Butch" Grieve
Conner
Hendricks
Malley
Mark Wembley (Mathematician)
Hannah Scott (Mathematician)
Ken Boothe
Mike Farina (CAPCOM, STS-74)
Roy Honeycutt (CAPCOM, STS-74)
Mitch Dalke (CAPCOM, STS-74A)
Jules Carreau (CAPCOM, STS-74A)
Jim Eisenbach (CAPCOM, STS-74A)
Rob Lynam (CAPCOM, STS-74A)
STS-1:
Santiago "Santy" Santich, Capt. (USN) (CDR)
Joe Forrester (PLT)
STS-74:
Steven Banke, Col. (USAF) (CDR)
Robert Halvorson (PLT)
Samuel James Torrington, Capt. (US Army) (Mission Specialist)
Alexis Leonidovich "Alex" Orlov, Dr.[f] (Mission Specialist)
Habuda (no first name given)
STS-74A:
Santiago "Santy" Santich (CDR)
Melanie Anderson, Lt. Cmdr. (USN) (PLT)
Alexis Leonidovich "Alex" Orlov, Dr. (Mission Specialist One/Flight Engineer)
Alexandra "Alex Prime" O'Day, Dr. (Mission Specialist Two)
|
Final Orbit (1997), novel
|
NASA
Space Shuttle:
STS-1 (Columbia)
STS-74 (Atlantis)
STS-74A (Columbia)
|
April 12, 1981
1997 (April – May)
|
| Torrington is killed in apparent EVA accident on mission to repair Gamma Ray Observatory, triggering NASA cover-up; Santich commands follow-up mission to complete repair. Santich, known as "the Dean of American Astronauts", was a member of NASA Astronaut Group 2. He flew twice on Gemini, once on Apollo and three times on the space shuttle prior to STS-74A and is a former Chief Astronaut. He was the ninth man on the Moon, landing in the Descartes Mountains (presumably on Apollo 16). Hooper, also a member of Group 2, was grounded due to middle-ear problem. Grieve is a three-time shuttle veteran. Torrington flew one shuttle mission prior to STS-74.[38]
|
| John Churchill Cooper, Ph.D. (Mission Specialist)
|
Heatcrazed! (1997), novel
|
Space Shuttle
Columbia
|
Contemporary (August)
|
| Former NASA astronaut who flew on three shuttle missions finds romance in Louisiana bayou.[39]
|
| Jiang Ling, Lt.
|
Titan (1997), novel
|
Shenzhou
|
Contemporary
|
| First Chinese human spaceflight, Lei Feng 1, is launched in late 2004. The solo astronaut is a young female PLAAF officer. The craft and flight profile are remarkably similar to the Shenzhou missions flown several years after the novel was published.
|
| Abel "Ab" (USAF) (no last name given)
|
The Astronaut's Tale (1998), opera
|
Space Shuttle
|
November 1954 – Contemporary
|
| Astronaut who dies in space shuttle explosion.[40]
|
David (CDR)
Barbie [Barbara Millicent Roberts] (PLT)
Dan (Mission Specialist)
Robin (Mission Specialist)
Kira (Mission Specialist) (no last names given)
|
Barbie: Shooting for the Stars (1998), chapter book
|
Space Shuttle
|
Contemporary
|
| Mission to repair Mitchell Telescope (apparently similar to Hubble Space Telescope). Cf. Astronauts in other media.[41]
|
Pete Miller, Cmdr.
Jeremy Sanchez (PLT)
Dave Cameron, Payload Specialist (PS)
Dennis Franks, Mission Specialist (MS)
|
Bright Star (1998), novel
|
Space Shuttle
Atlantis
|
Contemporary
|
| Astronauts on a mission to launch a prototype SDI weapon.[42]
|
Jim McCan (CDR)
Harry Sempler (PLT)
|
Diamondbacks (aka Space Shuttle War: Mission Death) (1998), film
|
Space Shuttle[g]
|
Contemporary
|
| NASA astronauts imperiled by militia takeover of tracking station.
|
| Unnamed cosmonaut
|
Ich Dreh Mich Um Dich (1998), music video
|
Soyuz
Mir
|
Contemporary
|
| Washed-up cosmonaut who flew to Mir.[43]
|
NASA:
Chad Connors
Rick Delahunt (USN) (CDR, STS-97)
Clint Hurley (Acting Chief Astronaut)
Melinda Pruett
Jerome "Jerry" Rager, Lt. Col. (US Army)
Arnaldo Rivera (CAPCOM)
Jinx Seamans (Deputy Chief of Astronaut Office)
Sarah Wall
STS-76:
Jackson Willet (CDR)
Joseph Buerhle, Col. (USAF) (PLT) (also CDR, STS-90, Discovery)
Kelly Gessner (Mission Specialist) (also MS, STS-93)
Christy Nasvik
Carlos Rivera
STS-95:
Ronald Kubiak, Capt. (USN) (CDR)
Sandra Rhodes, Maj. (USAF) (PLT)
Dolores McCoy (Mission Specialist)
Brian Monteleone, Cmdr. (USN) (Mission Specialist)
Norman Sakmar, Col. (USAF) (Mission Specialist)
STS-96:
Joseph (CDR)
Mecom (PLT)
Teague (Mission Specialist 1)
Holly (Mission Specialist 2)
Whitefield (Mission Specialist 3) (no first names given)
1998 NASA Astronaut Group, "The Worms":
Jeffrey Betts, Cmdr. (USN)
Jason Borders, Lt. Cmdr. (USN)
Anton Craig, Maj. (USAF)
Karl Dennet, Capt. (USAF)
Gunter Diemer
John Essington
Vardon Hall
Diana Herron, Capt. (USAF)
Melanie Juin (ESA)
Viktor Kondratko, Lt. Col. (Russian Air Force/RSA)
Mark Koskinen
Thomas Moad, Cmdr. (USN)
Ray Murdaugh, Capt. (USMC)
Miguel Raquena
Daniel Raybourne, Maj. (USAF)
Geraldine Reed
Donald Schuetz, Lt. Cmdr. (USN)
Wayne Shelton
Gregory Yakubik, Capt. (US Army) (CAPCOM, STS-100)
STS-100:
Steven Goslin, Lt. Col. (USMC) (CDR) (also PLT, STS-79 and STS-90)
Jeffrey Dieckhaus, Cmdr. (USN) (PLT) (also STS-92)
David Freeh, Ph.D., Maj. (USAF) (Mission Specialist)
Kelly Gessner (Mission Specialist)
Donal "Don" O'Riordan (ESA) (Mission Specialist)
Mark Koskinen (Mission Specialist 4)
Viktor Kondratko (Mission Specialist 5)
Russian Space Agency:
Mir-29:
Nikolai Dolgov (Commander)
Nikolai Kazantsev (Flight Engineer)
Gary McMinn (NASA) (returns on STS-95)
Soyuz TM-28/Mir-30:
Alexander Alexeyevich "Sasha-1" Shabarov, Lt. Col. (Russian Air Force) (Commander)
Alexander V. "Sasha-2" Dergunov (Flight Engineer)
Calvin Stipe, Ph.D. (NASA)
Mir-31:
Yuri Petrenko (Commander)
Vladimir "Volodya" Belokonev (Flight Engineer)
Cal Stipe
|
Missing Man (1998), novel
|
NASA
Space Shuttle:
STS-95 (Atlantis)
STS-96 (Columbia)
STS-100 (Atlantis)
Russian Space Agency
Mir:
Mir-29
Soyuz TM-28/Mir-30
Mir-31
|
October 14, 1998 – October 1999
|
| After surviving T-38 crash that kills Chief Astronaut Buerhle, a four-time Shuttle veteran, ASCAN Koskinen must fight to save his career. Stipe is only astronaut to have flown aboard all five Shuttles.[44]
|
Alex Streck, Capt. (CDR)
Spencer J. "Spence" Armacost, Cmdr.
Shelly Carter
Pat Elliott
Tom Sullivan
Stan (Mission Specialist) (no last name given)
|
The Astronaut's Wife (1999), film/novel
|
Space Shuttle
Victory
|
Contemporary
|
| NASA astronauts narrowly escape death after an explosion during an EVA. Streck dies from a massive stroke shortly after returning to earth. Armacost seems to be in good health, but he suffers a mysterious and sinister personality change after the mission.[45][46][47]
|
Oleg
Casimir, Dr. (no last names given)
|
The cosmonaut's last message to the woman he once loved in the former Soviet Union (1999), play
|
Soviet Union:
Harmony 114 (Special Orbital Craft)
|
"Recently" (Summer)
|
| Cosmonauts on secret mission to explore human limits, forgotten in orbit for twelve years after fall of USSR.[48]
|
| John Crichton
|
Farscape (1999–2004), TV
|
Space Shuttle
Collaroy
Farscape One
|
Contemporary/Near Future
|
| International Aeronautics and Space Administration (IASA) astronaut lost in space. His father was former astronaut Jack Crichton.
|
Gordon "Gordie"[h] Obie (Director of Flight Crew Operations)
Hank Millar (Chief of the Astronaut Office)
Jack McCallum, M.D.
STS-160:
Vance (CDR)
DeWitt (PLT)
Emma Watson, M.D. (Mission Specialist) (originally assigned to STS-162)
Chenoweth
Three unnamed astronauts
International Space Station:
Michael Griggs (Commander)
Nicolai Rudenko (Russia)
Luther Ames (NASA)
Diana Estes, Dr. (UK) (ESA)
William Haning, Dr. (NASA)
Kenichi Hirai (NASDA)
Emma Watson, M.D. (relieves Haning)
STS-161 (crew originally assigned to STS-162):
Bob Kittredge (USN) (CDR)
Jill Hewitt (USN) (PLT)
Andy Mercer (Mission Specialist)
O'Leary (Medical Officer)
Apogee II:
Sullivan "Sully" Obie
|
Gravity (1999), novel
|
NASA
Space Shuttle:
STS-160 (Atlantis)
STS-161 (Discovery)
STS-162 (Endeavour)
International Space Station
Soyuz
Crew Return Vehicle
Apogee Engineering:
Apogee II (Single-stage-to-orbit)
|
Near Future (July 7 – August 27, January)
|
| Mysterious contagion spreads aboard ISS. Watson previously flew on Atlantis on STS-141; Estes flew on Atlantis on a transoceanic abort flight. Ames flew on Columbia as a mission specialist. Kittredge is a three-time Shuttle veteran; Gordon Obie was a two-time Shuttle commander. McCallum was removed from crew of STS-145 due to a kidney stone.[49]
|
| Jack Austin
|
Heat Vision and Jack
The Eyes of Paragon (1999), TV
|
NASA
|
Contemporary
|
| Unsold sitcom pilot about astronaut whose orbit took him too close to the Sun; he gains superintelligence in daylight from solar energy. He is pursued by Ron Silver, also a former astronaut as well as an actor.[50][51][52]
|
Tesla:
Yuri Puskin (Russia) (Commander)
Rene (France) (Co-Captain) (no last name given)
Shuttle:
Konrad (USA) (Astrophysicist/Pilot)
Max "Mad Max" (USA) (Guest Cosmonaut) (no last names given)
|
In the Dead of Space (a.k.a. Space Fury) (1999), film
|
Russian Space Agency:
Space Station
Tesla
Reserve shuttle
|
Near Future
|
| American astrophysicist Konrad and pro golfer Max join crew of space station, but one of the four people aboard is a murderer.[53]
|
Rescue Heroes Space Station:
Warren Waters (Commander)
Roger Houston
Four unnamed astronauts
Rescue Heroes:
Billy Blazes
Wendy Waters
Ariel Flyer
European Space Station:
Wellington, Maj.
Unnamed lieutenant
Space shuttle:
Two unnamed astronauts
|
Rescue Heroes
Tidal Wave, Meteor (1999), Houston, We Have a Problem (2001), TV
Rescue Heroes
Why We Became Rescue Heroes: The Teammates Tell Their Exciting Stories (2002), picture book
|
Rescue Heroes Space Station (a.k.a. Space Command Center, Hexagon)
European Space Station
Space shuttle
|
Contemporary/Near Future
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| Interdisciplinary team of rescue specialists assists during meteor showers.[54]
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Annie Caulfield (Chief of Astronauts)
Orion:
Jim Rowland, Col. (CDR)
Lee Everett (PLT)
Gail Scott (Payload Specialist)
Sharon Ling (Mission Specialist)
Three unnamed astronauts
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Shadow Watch (1999), novel
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Space Shuttle
Orion
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April 15 – 30, 2001
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| Crew of Space Shuttle Orion. Col. Rowland is killed when sabotage causes the shuttle to catch fire on the launch pad. Caulfield and Rowland were both members of the astronaut class of 1994 and flew together on previous missions.[55]
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Shannon O'Donnel Janeway
McMillan, Lt. (no first name given)
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Star Trek: Voyager
11:59 (1999), TV
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N/A
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December 27 – 31, 2000
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| Former astronaut trainee O'Donnel becomes ancestor of Kathryn Janeway. McMillan is scheduled for four-month space station mission in 2003.[56]
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