Wernher von Braun

Wernher von Braun

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

Rick Tumlinson

male
from Texas, DC-X, Space News, space activist, X-33, Space Frontier Foundation…International Space University, Space Command, Space colonization, Spaceadvocacy, space exploration
Rick Tumlinson is the co-founder of the Space Frontier Foundation and a prominent space activist. He has testified on space-related topics before...
Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson

male, 85 years old
physicist, mathematician, futurism, quantum mechanics, International Cooperation, Spaceadvocacy…president of the Space Studies Institute, Space Studies Institute
Freeman John Dyson FRS (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum...
Gerard O'Neill

Gerard O'Neill

male, deceased (1992)
Space burials, planet, Swarthmore College, physicist, Astronomer, astronaut…buried in space, Spaceadvocacy, Space colonization, Space Studies Institute
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...
Michael Mealling

Michael Mealling

male, 40 years old
vice president, chief financial officer, Spaceadvocacy, Masten Space Systems, The Space Show, Moon Society
Michael Mealling (b. 1969) is a former Director of the Moon Society. He is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Vice President of Business Development...
Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam

male, 66 years old
New York Times, NASA personnel, author, New York Times best-seller, Spaceadvocacy, vietnam veteran
Homer Hadley Hickam, Jr. (born February 19, 1943) is an American author, Vietnam veteran, and a former NASA engineer. His autobiographical novel...
Willy Ley

Willy Ley

male, deceased (1969)
physicist, German-American, technology writer, inventor, German, Worldcon Guest of Honor…Spaceadvocacy
Willy Ley (October 2 1906 - June 24 1969) was a science writer and space advocate who helped popularise rocketry and spaceflight in Germany and the...
Bruce Boxleitner

Bruce Boxleitner

male, 59 years old (Highland Park, Illinois, United States)
television actor, actor, John Sheridan, babylon 5, Dakota Brinkman, Anna Sheridan…National Space Society, Spaceadvocacy
Bruce Boxleitner (born May 12, 1950 in Elgin, Illinois) is an American actor. He is best known for his leading roles in the television series "How...
Konrad Dannenberg

Konrad Dannenberg

male, 97 years old
physicist, Rocketry, From Huntsville, Alabama, Redstone, naturalized, NASA personnel…space travel, Spaceadvocacy
Konrad Dannenberg is a rocket pioneer. At the age of two, he and his family moved to Velber with Hanover, where he spent his youth. A lecture by...

Marshall Savage

male
Spaceadvocacy, Living Universe Foundation, Marshall T. Savage
Marshall T. Savage is an advocate of space travel who wrote The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps and founded the...