United States Marine Corps officer, aviator and astronaut
According to Wikipedia, Norman Earl Thagard, M.D. , is an American scientist and former U.S. Marine Corps officer and naval aviator and NASA astronaut. He is the first American to ride to space on board a Russian vehicle, and can be considered the first American cosmonaut. He did this on March 14, 1995, in the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft for the Russian Mir-18 mission.
Norman Thagard is affiliated with the following schools: