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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Buzz Aldrin
Astronaut
20-Jan-1930   Second man on the Moon
Neil Armstrong
Astronaut
5-Aug-1930   First man on the Moon
Alan Bean
Astronaut
15-Mar-1932   Apollo 12, Skylab Mission II astronaut
Charles F. Bolden, Jr.
Astronaut
19-Aug-1946   Four-time shuttle astronaut
Frank Borman
Astronaut
14-Mar-1928   First to circumnavigate moon
Scott Carpenter
Astronaut
1-May-1925   Mercury astronaut
Gene Cernan
Astronaut
14-Mar-1934   Last man on the moon (Apollo 17)
Michael Collins
Astronaut
31-Oct-1930   Apollo 11 command module pilot
Pete Conrad
Astronaut
2-Jun-1930 8-Jul-1999 Apollo 12 mission commander, 3rd on moon
Gordon Cooper
Astronaut
6-Mar-1927 4-Oct-2004 Mercury 7 and Gemini 5 astronaut
Dick Covey
Astronaut
1-Aug-1946   Shuttle astronaut
Robert Crippen
Astronaut
11-Sep-1937   Pilot of first shuttle mission, STS-1
Charles Duke
Astronaut
3-Oct-1935   10th to walk on the Moon
Yuri Gagarin
Astronaut
9-Mar-1934 27-Mar-1968 First person to orbit earth
Jake Garn
Politician
12-Oct-1932   US Senator from Utah, 1974-93
Owen K. Garriott
Astronaut
22-Nov-1930   Skylab, Spacelab astronaut
John Glenn
Astronaut
18-Jul-1921   First American to orbit earth
Gus Grissom
Astronaut
3-Apr-1926 27-Jan-1967 Second American in space
Fred Haise
Astronaut
14-Nov-1933   Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 13
Bernard A. Harris, Jr.
Astronaut
26-Jun-1956   First black astronaut to spacewalk
James Irwin
Astronaut
17-Mar-1930 8-Aug-1991 8th to walk on the Moon
Mae C. Jemison
Astronaut
17-Oct-1956   First African-American woman in space
Vladimir Komarov
Astronaut
16-Mar-1927 24-Apr-1967 Pilot of Soyuz 1 plunged to his death
Alexei Leonov
Astronaut
30-May-1934   First man to walk in space
Yang Liwei
Astronaut
21-Jun-1965   First manned Chinese spaceflight
Jim Lovell
Astronaut
25-Mar-1928   Apollo 13
Shannon Lucid
Astronaut
14-Jan-1943   Five space shuttle flights
Christa McAuliffe
Astronaut
2-Sep-1948 28-Jan-1986 First teacher in space
James A. McDivitt
Astronaut
10-Jun-1929   Commander, Gemini 4 and Apollo 9
Michael Melvill
Astronaut
11-Nov-1941   First private astronaut in space
Edgar Mitchell
Astronaut
17-Sep-1930   6th to walk on the Moon
Story Musgrave
Astronaut
19-Aug-1935   Spent 1281 hours in space
Bill Nelson
Politician
29-Sep-1942   US Senator from Florida
Andrian Nikolayev
Astronaut
5-Sep-1929 3-Jul-2004 Third Russian cosmonaut in space
Lisa Nowak
Astronaut
10-May-1963   According to lawyer, no diaper
Ellen Ochoa
Astronaut
10-May-1958   First hispanic female astronaut
Scott E. Parazynski
Astronaut
28-Jul-1961   Shuttle astronaut, summited Everest
Judith Resnik
Astronaut
5-Apr-1949 28-Jan-1986 Challenger astronaut
Sally Ride
Astronaut
26-May-1951 23-Jul-2012 First American woman in space
Wally Schirra
Astronaut
12-Mar-1923 3-May-2007 Commander of Apollo 7
Jack Schmitt
Astronaut
3-Jul-1935   12th Man on the Moon
Rusty Schweickart
Astronaut
25-Oct-1935   Apollo 9 Lunar Module pilot
David Scott
Astronaut
6-Jun-1932   Commander, Apollo 15
Alan Shepard
Astronaut
18-Nov-1923 21-Jul-1998 First American in space
Deke Slayton
Astronaut
1-Mar-1924 13-Jun-1993 Original Mercury 7 astronaut
Thomas P. Stafford
Astronaut
17-Sep-1930   Gemini 6 & 9, Apollo 10, Apollo-Soyuz
Kathryn D. Sullivan
Astronaut
3-Oct-1951   Columbus Center for Science and Industry
Jack Swigert
Astronaut
30-Aug-1931 27-Dec-1982 Command Module Pilot on Apollo 13
Norman Thagard
Astronaut
3-Jul-1943   Shuttle astronaut
Richard H. Truly
Astronaut
12-Nov-1937   NASA Administrator, 1989-92
Ed White
Astronaut
14-Nov-1930 27-Jan-1967 First American to walk in space
John Young
Astronaut
24-Sep-1930   9th to walk on the Moon



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