Ջեյմս Բեջյան (b. 1952)։ Գյուտարարություն և ինժեներություն։ mechanical engineer and physician. NASA astronaut who flew two Space Shuttle missions (1989, 1991) — the only person of Armenian descent to have flown in space — and later helped found the field of modern patient-safety engineering in healthcare. James Philip Bagian, is an American physician, engineer, and former NASA astronaut of Armenian descent. During his career as an astronaut, he logged 337 hours of space-flight, over two missions, STS-29 and STS-40. After leaving NASA in 1995, Bagian was elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine.