James C. Fletcher

James C. Fletcher

male, deceased (1991)
California Institute of Technology alumni, Harvard University, Columbia University, Princeton University, University of Utah, from New Jersey…voyager program, Vikingprogram
James Chipman Fletcher (June 5, 1919 - December 22, 1991) served as the 4th and 7th Administrator of NASA, first from April 27, 1971, to May 1,...
Gerald Soffen

Gerald Soffen

male, deceased (2000)
goddard space flight center, Dr. Gerald A. Soffen, NASA Academy, Vikingprogram, NASA personnel, NASA…viking, Director of the Viking Missions, Viking Project, Associate Director for Program Planning
Dr. Gerald A. Soffen, (February 7, 1926 - November 22, 2000), known as Jerry or Gerry, served in a wide variety of roles for NASA, primarily...
Harold Masursky

Harold Masursky

male, deceased (1990)
Astronomer, Geologist, asteroid, apollo, NASA, viking…Apollo program, Vikingprogram
Harold Masursky (December 23,1922 - August 24,1990) was an American geologist and astronomer. He started his career working for the US Geological...
Wayne Ratliff

Wayne Ratliff

male, 63 years old
Star Trek, assembly language, Mars, Copyright, Ashton-Tate, Martin Marietta Corporation…Vikingprogram, computer program, program
C. Wayne Ratliff (born 1946, Trenton, Ohio) wrote the database program dBASE II. Raised in Ohio and Germany, he now resides in the Los Angeles...
Thomas A. Mutch

Thomas A. Mutch

male, deceased (1980)
Brown University, professor, Geologist, disappeared, viking, Planetary scientist…Vikingprogram, Viking 1
Thomas A. (Tim) Mutch (August 26,1931 - October 6,1980) was an American geologist and planetary scientist. He was a professor at Brown University...
Leslie Orgel

Leslie Orgel

male, 82 years old
Jewish, chemical bond, coordination complexes, Leslie Eleazer Orgel, peptide nucleic acid, specified complexity…Vikingprogram, viking
Leslie Eleazer Orgel (born Jan 12 1927 in London) is a chemist. He helped developing ligand field theory, which describes chemical bonding in...

James R. French

male
engineer, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Mars, voyager program, Apollo Lunar Module, Project Apollo…Vikingprogram, Mariner program, viking
James R. French is a prominent U.S. aerospace engineer. While working for different NASA contractors during the 1960s, he helped design, develop...

Joan Oró

male, deceased (2004)
lleida, Biochemist, mass spectrometer, mass spectrometry, scientist, NASA…Vikingprogram, Viking missions
Joan Oró i Florensa was a Spanish Catalan biochemist whose research has been of importance in understanding the origin of life. Oró was born in Ll...
James B. Pollack

James B. Pollack

male, deceased (1994)
Astronomer, NASA, atmospheric science, crater, weather, Astrophysicist…Viking mission, Vikingprogram
James B. Pollack (1938 - 1994) was an American astrophysicist. He worked for NASA's Ames Research Center. Pollack was born on 9 July 1938 and was...