John Young

John Young

male, 79 years old
astronaut, United States Naval Aviator, U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Inductee, United States Navy officer, Apollo Command/Service Module, Command/Service Module…Apollo Lunar Module, ProjectApollo, Apollo 16, apollo, project gemini
John Watts Young (born September 24, 1930) is a former NASA astronaut who walked on the Moon on April 21, 1972 during the Apollo 16 mission. Young...

John Houbolt

male, 90 years old
Langley Research Center, engineer, Lunar Orbit Rendezvous, John Cornelius Houbolt, ProjectApollo, Apollo Lunar Module
John Houbolt understood NASA's fears, but he recognized that all the alternative schemes had serious pitfalls and dreadful possibilities of their...

Harrison Storms

male
Apollo program, Apollo Command/Service Module, ProjectApollo, United States aerospace engineer, Command Module, Harrison "Stormy" Storms
Harrison "Stormy" Storms is an aeronautical engineer best known for his role in managing the design and construction of the command module for the...
Guenter Wendt

Guenter Wendt

male
engineer, astronaut, German-American, technology writer, German, naturalized citizen of the United States…apollo, Apollo 1, ProjectApollo, Project Mercury
Guenter F. Wendt (b. 1924) was a native of Germany. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1949 and became a U.S. citizen in 1955. As an engineer, he worked...
Glynn Lunney

Glynn Lunney

male, 72 years old
Aerospace engineer, Chris Kraft, Project Mercury, Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, ProjectApollo, NASA flight controller…project gemini, apollo 13, apollo 11, apollo
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...
Christopher C. Kraft Jr.

Christopher C. Kraft Jr.

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

Gerard O'Neill

male, deceased (1992)
Space burials, planet, Swarthmore College, physicist, Astronomer, astronaut…apollo, ProjectApollo
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...
Maxime A. Faget

Maxime A. Faget

female, deceased (1921)
Space Industries Inc., Louisiana State University, Soyuz spacecraft, NASA personnel, Space Shuttle program, ProjectApollo…Project Mercury, Apollo spacecraft, apollo, Apollo 204 Review Board
Maxime A. Faget was trained as an aeronautical engineer, with a B.S. from Louisiana State University. He joined the staff at Langley Aeronautical...
James Burke

James Burke

male, 72 years old
documentary, civilisation, Documentary film, Connections, Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford, Jesus College, Oxford…ProjectApollo
James Burke (born 22 December 1936) is a British science historian, author and television producer best known for his documentary television series...

Bill Tindall

male
Brown University, Howard Wilson "Bill" Tindall, Jr, National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, ProjectApollo, Apollo program, NASA personnel…project gemini, Project Mercury
Howard Wilson "Bill" Tindall, Jr. was a NASA engineer and manager. He was an early expert in orbital mechanics and coordinated mission techniques...