| |  | Eugene Wesley Roddenberry was an American scriptwriter and producer. He is best known as the creator of what would become the science fiction... |  | Timothy Francis Leary, (October 22, 1920 - May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, advocate of psychedelic drug research and use, and... |  | Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (February 6 1927 - April 27 1992) was a U.S. physicist and space pioneer. Born in Brooklyn, he graduated from Swarthmore... |  | Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, Jr. was an American astronaut. He was one of the original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned-space effort... |  | James Montgomery Doohan (March 3, 1920 - July 20, 2005) was a Canadian character and voice actor best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty"... |  | Eugene Merle Shoemaker (or Gene Shoemaker) (April 28, 1928 - July 18, 1997) was one of the founders of the fields of planetary science. Born in Los... |  | Clyde William Tombaugh (1906-1997) was an American astronomer who discovered the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930. Tombaugh was born in Streator, LaSalle... | |
