The Most Famous
ASTRONAUTS from Brazil
This page contains a list of the greatest Brazilian Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 556 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in Brazil. This makes Brazil the birth place of the 39th most number of Astronauts behind South Korea, and Mexico.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Brazilian Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Brazilian Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Marcos Pontes (b. 1963)
With an HPI of 45.62, Marcos Pontes is the most famous Brazilian Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 34 different languages on wikipedia.
Marcos Cesar Pontes (born 11 March 1963) is a Brazilian Air Force pilot, engineer, AEB astronaut, politician and author. He became the first South American and the first Lusophone to go into space when he docked onto the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-8 on 30 March 2006. He is the only Brazilian to have completed the NASA astronaut training program, although he switched to training in Russia after NASA's Space Shuttle program encountered problems. After Jair Bolsonaro's election as President of Brazil in 2018, Pontes was officially nominated to be Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, a post which he accepted days later and assumed when Bolsonaro's government began. He left the post on 31 March 2022 and in the same year was elected federal senator for his state, São Paulo.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Brazilian astronauts born between 1963 and 1963. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Brazilian astronauts include Marcos Pontes.
