Edgar Mitchell

Edgar Mitchell

male, 79 years old
astronaut, Boy Scouts of America, U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Inductee, Carnegie Mellon University alumni, Freemason, embry-riddle aeronautical university…NASA
Edgar Dean Mitchell, Sc.D. (born September 17, 1930) was the sixth man to walk on the Moon. He did this with Alan Shepard as part of the Apollo 14...
Phil Plait

Phil Plait

male
Death from the Skies, Philip Plait, Badastronomy.com, The Bad Astronomer, Science blogger, Sonoma State University…NASA
Philip Plait (a.k.a. The Bad Astronomer) is an astronomer who runs the website Badastronomy.com. He formerly worked at the physics and astronomy...
Robert Zubrin

Robert Zubrin

male
Aerospace engineer, The Case for Mars, science fiction writer, manned Mars mission, Martian atmosphere, rocket propellant…NASA
Robert Zubrin is an American aerospace engineer and author, best known for his advocacy of manned Mars exploration. He was the driving force behind...
Richard Lindzen

Richard Lindzen

male, 69 years old (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
global warming skeptic, Bert Bolin, atmospheric physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, planetary waves, KNMI…NASA
Richard Siegmund Lindzen, Ph.D., (born February 8, 1940) is an atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the...
John Young

John Young

male, 79 years old
astronaut, United States Naval Aviator, U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Inductee, United States Navy officer, Apollo Command/Service Module, Command/Service Module…NASA
John Watts Young (born September 24, 1930) is a former NASA astronaut who walked on the Moon on April 21, 1972 during the Apollo 16 mission. Young...
Sally Ride

Sally Ride

female, 58 years old
woman astronaut, Stanford University, Master's Degree, English, Flight controller, Ph.D.…NASA
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...
Sunita Williams

Sunita Williams

female, 44 years old
astronaut, Women in the United States Navy, Expedition 15, Indian, United States Naval Academy graduate, Women engineer…NASA
Sunita Lyn "Suni" Williams (born September 19 1965 in Euclid, Ohio) is a United States Naval officer and a NASA astronaut. She was assigned to the...
Garrett Reisman

Garrett Reisman

male, 41 years old
engineer, Parsippany High School, Expedition 17, Expedition 16, STS-123, Japanese Experiment Module…NASA
Garrett Erin Reisman (born February 10, 1968 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. He was a backup crew member...
Gus Grissom

Gus Grissom

male, deceased (1967)
astronaut, Launch Complex 34, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34, Congressional Space Medal of Honor, U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Inductee, Space Program Fatality…NASA
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...
Kalpana Chawla

Kalpana Chawla

female, deceased (2003)
Aerospace engineer, astronaut, engineer, mechanical engineer, Congressional Space Medal of Honor, From Karnal…NASA
Kalpana Chawla (Punjabi:ਕਲਪਨਾ ਚਾਵਲਾ) (7 March 1962 – 1 February 2003), was an Indian-born American astronaut and space shuttle mission specia...