. "Norman Earl Thagard"@en . "Retired" . . "Thagard, Norman"@en . . "1943Z"^^ . "United States Marine Corps officer, aviator and astronaut" . . "1943-07-03Z"^^ . . . "1.21442e+07"^^ . "Norman Earl Thagard (born July 3, 1943) is an American scientist and former NASA astronaut. He is the first American to ride to space on board a Russian vehicle, and can be considered the first American cosmonaut. He did this on March 14, 1995 in the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft for the Russian Mir-18 mission."@en . . .