Category
page 1American aviators of Asian descent
Robert Kiyosaki
American finance author and investor (born 1947)
Kalpana Chawla
American astronaut
Sunita Williams
Sunita Lyn Williams is a retired United States Navy captain and former NASA astronaut. Williams served aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer for Expedition 14, Expedition 15, Expedition 32, and Expedition 71 and commander of Expedition 33 and Expedition 72. A member of NASA’s Commercial Crew program, she became the first woman to fly on a flight test of an orbital spacecraft during the 2024 Boeing Crew Flight Test and had her stay extended by technical problems aboard the ISS for more than nine months. She is one of the most experienced spacewalkers: her nine spacewalks are second-most by a woman, and her total spacewalk time of 62 hours and 6 minutes is fourth overall and the most by a woman.
Ellison Onizuka
American astronaut from Kealakekua, Kona, Hawaii, first Asian American to reach space, later died in the Space Shuttle Challenger accident
Mark L. Polansky
American astronaut, pilot
Eugene H. Trinh
Vietnamese-American astronaut
Raja Chari
American astronaut
Jessica Cox
Armless aviator
Susan Ahn Cuddy
gunnery officer