| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Buzz Aldrin |
Astronaut |
20-Jan-1930 |
|
Second man on the Moon |
| Neil Armstrong |
Astronaut |
5-Aug-1930 |
25-Aug-2012 |
First man on the Moon |
| Norman Augustine |
Business |
27-Jul-1935 |
|
CEO of Martin Marietta, 1987-97 |
| Alan Bean |
Astronaut |
15-Mar-1932 |
|
Apollo 12, Skylab Mission II astronaut |
| Frank Borman |
Astronaut |
14-Mar-1928 |
|
First to circumnavigate moon |
| Scott Carpenter |
Astronaut |
1-May-1925 |
10-Oct-2013 |
Mercury astronaut |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
Novelist |
16-Dec-1917 |
19-Mar-2008 |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Vance D. Coffman |
Business |
3-Apr-1944 |
|
CEO of Lockheed Martin, 1998-2004 |
| 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 |
| Robert Crippen |
Astronaut |
11-Sep-1937 |
|
Pilot of first shuttle mission, STS-1 |
| James Doolittle |
Aviator |
14-Dec-1896 |
27-Sep-1993 |
Doolittle Raid against Tokyo in 1942 |
| Don Fuqua |
Politician |
20-Aug-1933 |
|
Congressman from Florida, 1963-87 |
| Owen K. Garriott |
Astronaut |
22-Nov-1930 |
|
Skylab, Spacelab astronaut |
| John Glenn |
Astronaut |
18-Jul-1921 |
|
First American to orbit earth |
| Michael D. Griffin |
Government |
1-Nov-1949 |
|
NASA Administrator |
| Gus Grissom |
Astronaut |
3-Apr-1926 |
27-Jan-1967 |
Second American in space |
| Guillermo Haro |
Astronomer |
21-Mar-1913 |
26-Apr-1988 |
Herbig-Haro objects |
| Bernard A. Harris, Jr. |
Astronaut |
26-Jun-1956 |
|
First black astronaut to spacewalk |
| Robert Jastrow |
Astronomer |
7-Sep-1925 |
8-Feb-2008 |
Red Giants and White Dwarfs |
| Jim Lovell |
Astronaut |
25-Mar-1928 |
|
Apollo 13 |
| Ruben Mettler |
Business |
23-Feb-1924 |
23-May-2006 |
CEO of TRW, 1969-77 |
| Carl Sagan |
Astronomer |
9-Nov-1934 |
20-Dec-1996 |
Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos |
| 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 |
| Robert J. Stevens |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Lockheed Martin |
| Jack Swigert |
Astronaut |
30-Aug-1931 |
27-Dec-1982 |
Command Module Pilot on Apollo 13 |
| James V. Taranik |
Geologist |
23-Apr-1940 |
21-Jun-2011 |
Desert Research Institute |
| Clyde W. Tombaugh |
Astronomer |
4-Feb-1906 |
17-Jan-1997 |
Discovered Pluto |
| Harold C. Urey |
Chemist |
29-Apr-1893 |
5-Jan-1981 |
Discovered Deuterium |
| James Van Allen |
Astronomer |
7-Sep-1914 |
9-Aug-2006 |
Discovered the Van Allen Belt |
| Wernher von Braun |
Scientist |
23-Mar-1912 |
16-Jun-1977 |
German-American rocket scientist |
| A. Thomas Young |
Business |
1938 |
|
President of Martin Marietta, 1990-95 |
| John Young |
Astronaut |
24-Sep-1930 |
|
9th to walk on the Moon |
| Fritz Zwicky |
Astronomer |
14-Feb-1898 |
8-Feb-1974 |
Astrophysicist at CalTech |
