Who do you think is the greatest astronaut of all time?  The good folks at Sky at Night Magazine have launched a poll to find out.  The poll is in the August issue which by the way is on sale now.

Graham Southorn, Editor of the magazine made the comment: “We are setting out to honour those brave explorers who have journeyed beyond Earth, with a poll to find the greatest astronaut. We had to make some tough choices, but in the end we’ve narrowed the selection down to 15 people. Now we need your help to select the greatest of all time.”

Notably absent from the “short list” is John Glenn which kind of surprised me, not that I’d necessarily vote for him, but I’m not sure I’d have excluded him especially after looking at the list.

Still, it’s quite a group:

1) Anousheh Ansari
2) Buzz Aldrin
3) Neil Armstrong
4) Frank Borman
5) Michael Foale
6) Yuri Gagarin
7) Sergei Krikalev
Jim Lovell
9) Alexei Leonov
10) Bruce McCandless
11) Valeri Polyakov
12) Story Musgrave
13) Harrison Schmidt
14) Alan Shepard
15) John Young

Go on over to Sky at Night Magazine to read about the choices and cast your vote!!