American aerospace engineers

Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, as the commander of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot and university professor.

Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman and entrepreneur known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, X, and xAI. Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2025; as of April 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth to be US$809 billion.

American aviation pioneers

German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)

American physicist

American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)

American astronaut

American aviation pioneer from Russian Empire (1889–1972)

American astronaut (1928–2023)

NASA astronaut, Naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, electrical engineer, fighter pilot, eleventh human to walk on the Moon (Apollo 10 and Apollo 17)

American astronaut and painter (1932-2018)

American astronaut, naval officer, test pilot and aeronautical engineer (1930–2018)

Chinese scientist and revolutionary (born 1961)

American astronaut (1930-2016)

American astronaut (1930-1967)

American astronaut (1930-1991)

American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut (1925–2013)

United States Army general (1934–2012)

American astronaut (1923–2007)

American mathematician and aerospace engineer

United States Navy commander, NASA astronaut (1935–1967)

NASA Astronaut, Pilot (1931-1982)

American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the Smithsonian (1834-1906)

American astronaut (1927–2004)

American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)

American engineer and economist

American astronaut

American astronaut (1924–1993)

U.S. Navy Commander, NASA astronaut and the pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia which was destroyed during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere in 2003

NASA astronaut (1933-1990)

American astronaut

American astronaut and test pilot (1929-2022)

American astronaut (1932–2020)

American astronaut

American astronaut (1933–1994)

American astronaut

American astronaut and politician

American astronaut (1932-2024)

American astronaut (1932–2017)

American engineer and NASA astronaut (1956-2012)

American astronaut and engineer

American astronaut

Austrian astrophysicist (1920-2004)

American aviator and industrialist (1878-1930)

American aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut born 1970

American business executive (born 1963)

Romanian-Israeli-American scientist and Holocaust survivor, killed in Virginia Tech massacre

American engineer, coiner of Murphy's law (1918–1990)

American physicist and aerospace engineer

American astronaut (1932–2020)

test pilot and NASA astronaut

NASA astronaut, and Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Air Force

Soviet MiG-25 pilot who defected to the West

American astronaut

American astronaut

Astronaut, United States Navy captain

American aerospace engineer (born 1943)

American astronaut

Canadian artillery engineer, entrepreneur (1928–1990)

American aerospace engineer