The Most Famous
ASTRONAUTS from Georgia
This page contains a list of the greatest Georgian Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 556 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in Georgia. This makes Georgia the birth place of the 35th most number of Astronauts behind Romania, and Sweden.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Georgian Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Georgian Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Fyodor Yurchikhin (b. 1959)
With an HPI of 48.79, Fyodor Yurchikhin is the most famous Georgian Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 34 different languages on wikipedia.
Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin (Russian: Фёдор Николаевич Юрчихин, Greek: Θεόδωρος Γιουρτσίχιν του Νικόλαου; born 3 January 1959) is a Russian cosmonaut of Pontic Greek descent, engineer and RSC Energia test-pilot who has flown on five spaceflights. His first spaceflight was a 10-day Space Shuttle mission STS-112. His second was a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as a flight engineer for Expedition 15; for this mission he was launched in the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft. He has undertaken two further long-duration stays aboard the ISS, as a crew member of Expedition 24 / 25. For this mission he was launched with the spacecraft Soyuz TMA-19, and he landed in November 2010, also with the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft. He served as Soyuz commander for his fourth mission aboard Soyuz TMA-09M, as flight engineer for Expedition 36 and ISS commander for Expedition 37. In April 2017, Yurchikhin launched on Soyuz MS-04 for the fifth spaceflight of his career, a six-month mission to the ISS as part of Expedition 51 and 52, for which he was the commander.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Georgian astronauts born between 1959 and 1959. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Georgian astronauts include Fyodor Yurchikhin.
