- male, deceased (2004)
- Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, Jr. was an American astronaut. He was one of the original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned-space effort...
- male, deceased (1967)
- Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom was a United States Air Force pilot and a NASA astronaut. A native of Mitchell, Indiana, he was the second American to...
- male, 84 years old
- Malcolm Scott Carpenter is a retired American Naval officer and was one of the original seven astronauts selected in 1959 for Project Mercury....
- male, deceased (2007) (Hackensack, New Jersey, United States)
- Walter Marty Schirra, Jr. (March 12, 1923 - May 3, 2007) was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts chosen for the Project Mercury, America's...
- female, deceased (1921)
- Maxime A. Faget was trained as an aeronautical engineer, with a B.S. from Louisiana State University. He joined the staff at Langley Aeronautical...
- male
- 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...
- male, 73 years old
- 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...
- male
- Howard Wilson "Bill" Tindall, Jr. was a NASA engineer and manager. He was an early expert in orbital mechanics and coordinated mission techniques...
- male, deceased (1994)
- Jerome Wiesner (May 30, 1915 – October 21, 1994) was an educator, a science advisor to U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, an advocate for ar...
- male, deceased (1980)
- John A. "Shorty" Powers (1923 -1980) USAF Lt. Col. was a well-known public affairs officer for NASA in the early 1960s during Project Mercury. He...
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