Anything that pushes a spaceship would probably be called an "engine". An astronaut could never "get up to light speed". Light speed could be approached in theory, but not reached.
it was - Sir first private citizen to be an astronaut
Actually the first US astronaut in space (Alan Shepard) did NOT orbit--he only had a 15-minute sub-orbital flight. The first US astronaut to orbit Earth was John Glenn. In any event, neither of them could have gone to the moon because at that time we simply did not have the technology to send them there.
Mae Jamison was the first black female astronaut, and she is still alive. She was born in 1956.
Of the first 26 astronauts, 24 were test pilots. This was a requirement until Astronaut Group 3 was selected in 1963. Buzz Aldrin and Eugene Cernan were fighter pilots instead.
Mirosław Hermaszewski
Dennis Tito was the first astronaut to travel to the planet Venus.
Pedro Duque was the first astronaut in space.
Yuri Gagarin.
a rocket but you will have to become an astronaut first
Guion Stewart Bluford Jr.
The first black astronaut was Guion Bluford, who was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in 1978 and became the first black person to travel in space in 1983 as a crew member aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
None. No astronaut or man-made object has ever gotten close to the speed of light. It is impossible for an object to actually travel at the speed of light.
Guion Bluford became the first African American astronaut to travel to space on August 30, 1983, as a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
Oh, dude, they totally used warp drives! You know, like in Star Trek? It's all about bending space-time and cruising through the universe at ridiculous speeds. Forget engines, we're talking about bending the rules of physics here!
The first African Canadian astronaut was Dr. Roberta Bondar. She flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1992, becoming the first neurologist in space and the first Canadian woman to travel to space.
Dr. Roberta Bondar travel in space for eight days, she is our first Canadian woman astronaut.
The first astronaut from Asia was Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma from India. He flew aboard the Soyuz T-11 spacecraft in 1984 as part of the Intercosmos program and became the first Indian to travel to space.