Christa McAuliffe

Christa McAuliffe

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

Michael Collins

male, 79 years old
astronaut, aviator, U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Inductee, Major General, all my child, apollo 11…Astronaut Group 3, third group of fourteen astronaut
Major General Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930) is a former American astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of...
Rusty Schweickart

Rusty Schweickart

male, 74 years old
astronaut, U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Inductee, United States Air Force officer, MIT, American, Neptune
Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart (born October 25, 1935) is an American astronaut. Schweickart was born in Neptune, New Jersey. He earned an S.B....
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
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...
Gordon Cooper

Gordon Cooper

male, deceased (2004)
Mercury Seven, astronaut, University of Hawaii alumni, Space burials, U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Inductee, Death from Parkinson's Disease…original astronaut, selected as a Mercury astronaut in April 1959
Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, Jr. was an American astronaut. He was one of the original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned-space effort...
Ilan Ramon

Ilan Ramon

male, deceased (2003)
astronaut, Space Program Fatality, Jewish person, Congressional Space Medal of Honor, Israeli Air Force personnel, space shuttle
Ilan Ramon (June 20 1954 - February 1 2003;) was a combat pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and later the first Israeli astronaut. Ramon was the...
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
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...
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
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...
Kalpana Chawla

Kalpana Chawla

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