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The Most Famous

ASTRONAUTS from Georgia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Georgian Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 524 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.

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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.

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1. Fyodor Yurchikhin (1959 - )

With an HPI of 46.18, Fyodor Yurchikhin is the most famous Georgian Astronaut.  His biography has been translated into 31 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 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.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronauts born between 1959 and 1959. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living astronauts include Fyodor Yurchikhin.

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