Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, in the Soviet Union in 1963, Garry Kasparov became the under-18 chess champion of the USSR at the age of 12 and the world under-20 champion at 17. He…
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Michael López-Alegría
NASA astronaut (1992-2012). Former Commander of the International Space Station.
COMMANDER OF AX-1, THE HISTORIC FIRST PRIVATE MISSION TO VISIT THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
Former President of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, Michael Lopez-Alegria has been involved in four space missions and has been a NASA astronaut and holder of three records: the longest space flight (215 days),…