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Neil Armstrong
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 Musk
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.
Wright brothers
American aviation pioneers
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
Kalpana Chawla
American astronaut
Igor Sikorsky
American aviation pioneer from Russian Empire (1889–1972)
Frank Borman
American astronaut (1928–2023)
Eugene Cernan
NASA astronaut, Naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, electrical engineer, fighter pilot, eleventh human to walk on the Moon (Apollo 10 and Apollo 17)
Alan Bean
American astronaut and painter (1932-2018)
John Young
American astronaut, naval officer, test pilot and aeronautical engineer (1930–2018)
Liu Gang
Chinese scientist and revolutionary (born 1961)
Edgar Mitchell
American astronaut (1930-2016)
Ed White
American astronaut (1930-1967)
James Irwin
American astronaut (1930-1991)
Scott Carpenter
American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut (1925–2013)
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
United States Army general (1934–2012)
Wally Schirra
American astronaut (1923–2007)
Mary Jackson
American mathematician and aerospace engineer
Roger Bruce Chaffee
United States Navy commander, NASA astronaut (1935–1967)
Jack Swigert
NASA Astronaut, Pilot (1931-1982)
Samuel Langley
American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the Smithsonian (1834-1906)
Gordon Cooper
American astronaut (1927–2004)
John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
Michael Porter
American engineer and economist
Ken Mattingly
American astronaut
Deke Slayton
American astronaut (1924–1993)
William C. McCool
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
Ronald Evans
NASA astronaut (1933-1990)
Robert Crippen
American astronaut
James McDivitt
American astronaut and test pilot (1929-2022)
Alfred Worden
American astronaut (1932–2020)
Fred Haise
American astronaut
Stuart Roosa
American astronaut (1933–1994)
Rusty Schweickart
American astronaut
Jack R. Lousma
American astronaut and politician
Joe Engle
American astronaut (1932-2024)
Paul J. Weitz
American astronaut (1932–2017)
Janice E. Voss
American engineer and NASA astronaut (1956-2012)
Clayton Anderson
American astronaut and engineer
William Shepherd
American astronaut
Thomas Gold
Austrian astrophysicist (1920-2004)
Glenn Curtiss
American aviator and industrialist (1878-1930)
Jeanette J. Epps
American aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut born 1970
Gwynne Shotwell
American business executive (born 1963)
Liviu Librescu
Romanian-Israeli-American scientist and Holocaust survivor, killed in Virginia Tech massacre
Edward A. Murphy, Jr.
American engineer, coiner of Murphy's law (1918–1990)
Michael D. Griffin
American physicist and aerospace engineer
Gerald Carr
American astronaut (1932–2020)
Vance D. Brand
test pilot and NASA astronaut
Michael S. Hopkins
NASA astronaut, and Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Air Force
Viktor Belenko
Soviet MiG-25 pilot who defected to the West
Robert L. Gibson
American astronaut
James C. Adamson
American astronaut
Frank L. Culbertson
Astronaut, United States Navy captain
Burt Rutan
American aerospace engineer (born 1943)
Stephen Frick
American astronaut
Gerald Bull
Canadian artillery engineer, entrepreneur (1928–1990)
Robert Zubrin
American aerospace engineer