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NASA people
- D. Brainerd HolmesD. Brainerd Holmes was the man John F. Kennedy called on to put an American on the moon. In September 1961, Holmes stepped into one of the most…
- Eberhard ReesEberhard Rees arrived at the Army Research Center Peenemünde in the spring of 1939. He managed V-2 rocket fabrication and assembly during World War II.
- William R. LucasWilliam Ray Lucas was born in Newbern, Tennessee on the 1st of March 1922. He graduated from Memphis State College with a degree in chemistry in 1943.
- John Young (astronaut)John Watts Young flew in space six times, walked on the Moon, and commanded the first Space Shuttle mission. No other astronaut in history flew in four…
- David ScottDavid Randolph Scott was born on the 6th of June 1932 at Randolph Field, near San Antonio, Texas. His middle name came directly from that base, a fitting…
- Alfred WordenAlfred Worden was, for three days in 1971, the most isolated human being who had ever lived. While his crewmates David Scott and James Irwin walked on the…
- Robert R. GilruthRobert Rowe Gilruth was born on the 8th of October 1913, in Nashwauk, Minnesota, a town so small that most Americans have never heard of it.
- Deke SlaytonDeke Slayton was born on the 1st of March 1924, on a farm near Leon, Wisconsin, and by 1959 he was one of the seven most famous test pilots in America.
- Samuel C. PhillipsSamuel C. Phillips was a general who flew fighters over occupied Europe, helped design the missiles that defined the Cold War, and then ran the program that…
- James HansenJames Hansen stood before the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on the 23rd of June 1988, and told the assembled lawmakers that…
- Joseph Francis SheaJoseph Francis Shea was born on the 5th of September, 1925, in the Bronx borough of New York City. He grew up as the eldest son in a working-class Irish…
- John HouboltJohn Cornelius Houbolt was an aerospace engineer who once opened a letter to a NASA administrator with an unusual line. 'Somewhat as a voice in the…
- Rusty SchweickartRusty Schweickart spent five minutes tethered outside his spacecraft, suspended above the Earth, and felt something shift inside him.
- Jessica MeirJessica Ulrika Meir grew up watching Space Shuttle missions on television in rural Maine, where, as she put it, the stars shone so brightly they felt almost…
- Flight controllerFlight controllers are the people standing between a spacecraft and disaster. They sit at computer consoles in mission control centers, monitoring telemetry…
- Maxime FagetMaxime Allen Faget was the engineer who decided that a spacecraft returning from orbit should look nothing like an aircraft.
- Roger D. LauniusRoger D. Launius is an American historian, born on the 15th of May 1954, whose specialty is the history of air and space.
- Abe SilversteinAbe Silverstein named the Apollo program after the Greek and Roman god of light and the sun, a choice that would define one of humanity's greatest…