Jules Verne

Jules Verne

male, deceased (1905)
Around the World in Eighty Days, science-fiction, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, author, science fiction…space, outerspace
Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8 1828-March 24 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such...
Sally Ride

Sally Ride

female, 58 years old
woman astronaut, Stanford University, Master's Degree, English, Flight controller, Ph.D.…space shuttle, space shuttle challenger, woman in space, outerspace
Sally Kristen Ride (born May 26 1951) is an American former astronaut who in 1983 became the first American woman to reach outer space. She was...
Valentina Tereshkova

Valentina Tereshkova

female, 72 years old
astronaut, cosmonaut, Hero of Socialist Labor, Soviet Air Force general, Aeroclub, Bolshoye Maslennikovo…space, outerspace, first woman in space
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (born 6 March 1937), is a retired Soviet cosmonaut and was the first woman to fly in space, aboard Vostok 6 on 16...
Leslie Orgel

Leslie Orgel

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

Marilyn Sadler

female
outerspace, writer, American, space, earth, Zenon Girl of the 21st Century
Marilyn Sadler is a writer. She was born November 17. One of her best known works was made into a television movie, under the title "Zenon: Girl of...
Laika

Laika

female
Space Program Fatality, Soviet cosmonaut, Space program fatalities, Russian space dogs, Famous dogs, Sputnik programme…Russian space dog, Animals in space, space, outerspace
Laika (from Russian: Лайка, a breed of dog, literally: "Barker") was a Russian space dog that became the first living creature from Earth to enter...
Michael Flynn

Michael Flynn

male, 62 years old
Libertarian science fiction writer, Michael F. Flynn, King of the High Frontier, In the Country of the Blind, The Wreck of The River of Star, Hard science fiction…outerspace
Michael Flynn, (b. 1947), sometimes published as Michael F. Flynn, works full time as a statistician and writes science fiction as a sideline....

John S. Lewis

male
Latter Day Saint academic, Space Frontier Foundation, University of California, San Diego, cosmochemistry, planetary science, near-Earth object…space sciences, space, outerspace
John S. Lewis is a professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. His interests in the chemistry an...
Franklin Chang-Diaz

Franklin Chang-Diaz

male, 59 years old (Houston, Texas, United States)
NASA, Costa Rican-American, Variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket, space shuttle, astronaut, VASIMR…International Space Station, Johnson Space Center, outerspace, NASA Johnson Space Center, national aeronautics and space administration
Franklin Chang-Diaz is both an astronaut and the director of the Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory at NASA Johnson Space Center. Logging seven...
Robert Freitas

Robert Freitas

male
outerspace, factory, harvey mudd college, Medical, Nanotechnologist, molecular nanotechnology…space
Robert A. Freitas Jr. is a Senior Research Fellow, one of four researchers at the nonprofit foundation Institute for Molecular Manufacturing (IMM)...