Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong

male, 79 years old
Neil Alden Armstrong (born August 5, 1930) is a former American astronaut, test pilot, university professor, and naval aviator. He was the first...
Deke Slayton

Deke Slayton

male, deceased (1993)
Donald Kent 'Deke' Slayton was one of the original "Mercury Seven" NASA astronauts. Initially grounded by a heart condition, he would serve as...
Laika

Laika

female
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...

Robert L. Park

male
Robert L. (Bob) Park is a professor of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park and was associated with the American Physical Society....
Max Valier

Max Valier

male, deceased (1930)
Max Valier was an Austrian rocketry pioneer. He helped found the German "Verein für Raumschiffahrt" (VfR - "Spaceflight Society") that would bring t...
John Casper

John Casper

male, 66 years old
John Howard Casper (born July 9 1943) is an American astronaut. Although born in South Carolina, he considers Gainesville, Georgia to be his...
Valeriy Polyakov

Valeriy Polyakov

male, 67 years old
Valeriy Vladimirovich Polyakov ("Valeriy Vladmirovich Polyakov") (born April 27, 1942) is a Russian cosmonaut. He holds the record for the longest...
John Hope

John Hope

male, deceased (2002)
John Raymond Hope (May 14, 1919-June 13, 2002) was an American meteorologist who specialized in hurricane forecasting and was an on-air personality...
Vasili Lazarev

Vasili Lazarev

male, deceased (1990)
Vasili Grigoryevich Lazarev (Russian: Василий Григорьевич Лазарев; February 23, 1928 – December 31, 1990) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the S...
Friedrich Zander

Friedrich Zander

male, deceased (1933)
Friedrich Zander, often transliterated "Fridrikh Arturovich Tsander" from Фридрих Артурович Цандер, the Russian version of his name, or "Frīdrihs...