Wernher von Braun

Wernher von Braun

male, deceased (1977) (United States)
Aerospace engineer, rocket, NASApersonnel, Early spaceflight scientist, Saturn V, v-2 rocket…NASA
Dr. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23 1912 - June 16 1977) was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket...

Wayne Hale

male
Rice University, kennedy space center, NASA, space shuttle, purdue university, Johnson Space Center…NASApersonnel, NASA flight controller
Wayne Hale is a NASA engineer. A former flight director, he now serves as head of the space shuttle program. Born on July 5, 1954 in Clovis, New...
James Hansen

James Hansen

male, 68 years old
James E. Hansen, Climate change policies, Climate change feedbacks and causes, political controversy, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Action on climate change…NASA, NASApersonnel
James E. Hansen (born March 29, 1941 in Denison, Iowa), heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, a part of the Goddard...
George Low

George Low

male, deceased (1984)
NASApersonnel, NASA, rensselaer polytechnic institute, George Michael Low, delta phi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty
George Michael Low, born George Wilhelm Low on June 10, 1926, near Vienna, Austria, was a NASA administrator. His parents were Artur and Gertrude...
Robert R. Gilruth

Robert R. Gilruth

male, deceased (2000)
National Aviation Hall of Fame, Collier Trophy recipient, Fellow of The Royal Aeronautical Society, Aerospace engineer, aeronautical engineering, University of Minnesota…NASA, NASApersonnel, NASA Johnson Space Center, director of NASA
Robert Rowe Gilruth (October 18 1913-August 17 2000) was an American aviation and space pioneer. In the beginning of his career he was involved...
Glynn Lunney

Glynn Lunney

male, 72 years old
Aerospace engineer, Chris Kraft, Project Mercury, Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Project Apollo, NASA flight controller…NASApersonnel, NASA
Glynn S. Lunney (born November 27, 1936) is a retired NASA engineer. An employee of NASA since its foundation in 1958, Lunney was a flight director...
Linda Ham

Linda Ham

female
Columbia, catastrophic destruction of Columbia, NASA flight controller, from Kenosha, Wisconsin, NASApersonnel, Columbia Accident Investigation Board
Linda Ham was the program integration manager in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Shuttle Program Office. In this...
Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam

male, 66 years old
New York Times, NASApersonnel, author, New York Times best-seller, Space advocacy, vietnam veteran…NASA
Homer Hadley Hickam, Jr. (born February 19, 1943) is an American author, Vietnam veteran, and a former NASA engineer. His autobiographical novel...
Christopher C. Kraft Jr.

Christopher C. Kraft Jr.

male, 85 years old
from Virginia, Project Apollo, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Space Task Group, Flight My Life in Mission Control, Christopher Columbus Kraft, Jr…NASA flight controller, NASApersonnel, NASA
Christopher Columbus Kraft, Jr. (born February 28, 1924) is a retired NASA engineer and manager. After graduating from Virginia Tech in 1944, Kraft...

John Hodge

male
engineer, Space Station Freedom, NASA flight controller, NASApersonnel, Flight Director, United States Department of Transportation…NASA
John Hodge (born 1929) is a British-born aerospace engineer. He worked for the Avro Arrow project in Canada; when it was cancelled in 1959, he...