James Hansen

James Hansen

male, 68 years old
James E. Hansen, Climate change policies, Climate change feedbacks and causes, political controversy, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Action on climate change…NASA, NASA personnel
James E. Hansen (born March 29, 1941 in Denison, Iowa), heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, a part of the Goddard...
Lisa Nowak

Lisa Nowak

female, 46 years old
woman astronaut, astronaut, astronaut diaper, crazy, Lisa Marie Nowak, Women in the United States Navy…NASA
Lisa Marie Nowak (née Caputo, is a United States Naval officer and a former NASA astronaut. She was selected by NASA in 1996 and qualified as a m...

Wayne Hale

male
Rice University, kennedy space center, NASA, space shuttle, purdue university, Johnson Space Center…NASA personnel, NASA flight controller
Wayne Hale is a NASA engineer. A former flight director, he now serves as head of the space shuttle program. Born on July 5, 1954 in Clovis, New...
Barbara Morgan

Barbara Morgan

female, 57 years old
astronaut, teacher in space, Educator Astronaut, Barbara Radding Morgan, STS-118, From Idaho…NASA
Barbara Radding Morgan (born November 28, 1951) is the first NASA astronaut designated as an Educator Mission Specialist or "teacher in space", and...
Alan Stern

Alan Stern

male
Science Mission Directorate, NASA, St. Mark's School of Texas alumni, S. Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute, New Horizons
S. Alan Stern is the Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Formerly a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, he...
Peggy Whitson

Peggy Whitson

female, 49 years old
astronaut, Pam Melroy, from Iowa, NASA, STS-120, Shuttle-Mir Program
Peggy Annette Whitson (born 9 February 1960) is an American biochemistry researcher and a NASA astronaut. Her experience with NASA includes an...
Burt Rutan

Burt Rutan

male, 66 years old
Ansari X-Prize, rocket plane, spaceshipone, suborbital, United States aerospace engineer, Aerospace engineer…NASA
Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan (born June 17, 1943 in Estacada, Oregon) is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing...
Clayton Anderson

Clayton Anderson

male, 50 years old
Omaha, STS-117, NASA, American, International Space Station, astronaut
Clayton Conrad Anderson (born February 23, 1959 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. Launched on STS-117, he replaced...
Christa McAuliffe

Christa McAuliffe

female, deceased (1986)
astronaut, Space Program Fatality, teacher in space, Christa Corrigan, Arab American, Teacher in Space Project…NASA
Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe, better known simply as Christa McAuliffe, and prior to her marriage, Christa Corrigan, was an American teacher...
Wernher von Braun

Wernher von Braun

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