Collier Trophy recipients

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.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program and for research in aeronautics and space exploration. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., NASA operates ten field centers across the US and is organized into mission directorates for Science, Space Operations, Exploration Systems Development, Space Technology, Aeronautics Research, and Mission Support. Established in 1958, NASA succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the American space developme

Buzz Aldrin is an American former astronaut, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. He was the second person to walk on the Moon after mission commander Neil Armstrong. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. Following the deaths of Armstrong in 2012 and pilot Michael Collins in 2021, he is the last surviving Apollo 11 crew member. Following Jim Lovell's death in 2025, Aldrin became the oldest living astronaut.

International Business Machines Corporation, doing business as IBM (nicknamed Big Blue), is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is a publicly traded company and one of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. IBM is the largest industrial research organization in the world, with 19 research facilities across a dozen countries; for 29 consecutive years, from 1993 to 2021, it held the record for most annual U.S. patents generated by a business.

The Boeing Company ( ) is an American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide. The company also provides leasing and product support services. Boeing is among the largest global aerospace manufacturers; it is the fourth-largest defense contractor in the world based on 2022 revenue and is the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value. Boeing was founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. The present corporation is the result of the merger of Boeing with McDonnell Douglas on August 1,

air service branch of the United States Armed Forces

American astronaut (1930–2021)

American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor (1911–1988)

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

American astronaut, first American in space, lunar explorer (1923–1998)

US aerospace and defense manufacturer

James Arthur Lovell Jr. was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and mechanical engineer. In 1968, as command module pilot of Apollo 8, he, along with Frank Borman and William Anders, became one of the first three astronauts to fly to and orbit the Moon. He then commanded the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970 which, after a critical failure en route, looped around the Moon and returned safely to Earth.

American astronaut (1928–2023)

American astronaut and painter (1932-2018)

American World War II flying ace and test pilot; first pilot to fly faster than sound (1923–2020)

1967-1997 aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–1999)

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1933–2024)

1927–2025 airline in the United States, former primary international carrier

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. Originally known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the agency was created on February 7, 1958, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in response to the Soviet's launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957. By collaborating with academia, industry, and government partners, DARPA formulates and executes research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science, o

American engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, former test pilot, and former NASA astronaut (born 1932)

American astronaut (1930-1991)

American aerospace and defense technology corporation

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

American astronaut (1923–2007)

American aerospace developer and manufacturer

aerospace manufacturer in the United States

administrator of NASA in 1961–1968 (1906–1992)

American astronaut (1927–2004)

Cessna () is an American brand of general aviation aircraft owned by Textron Aviation since 2014, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas. Originally, it was a brand of the Cessna Aircraft Company, an American general aviation aircraft manufacturing corporation also headquartered in Wichita. The company produced small, piston-powered aircraft, as well as business jets. For much of the mid-to-late 20th century, Cessna was one of the highest-volume and most diverse producers of general aviation aircraft in the world. It was founded in 1927 by Clyde Cessna and Victor Roos and was purchased by General Dy

American astronaut (1937–2017)

defense, security and aerospace company

American astronaut (1924–1993)

Raytheon is a business unit of RTX Corporation and is a major U.S. defense contractor and industrial corporation with manufacturing concentrations in weapons and military and commercial electronics. Founded in 1922, it merged in 2020 with United Technologies Corporation to form Raytheon Technologies, which changed its name to RTX Corporation in July 2023.

aircraft engine manufacturer

British multinational public holding company

family of American uncrewed military air and space vehicles

American general and politician (1906–1990)

American astronaut and politician

American astronaut (1932-2024)

Garmin Ltd. is an American multinational technology company based in Olathe, Kansas. The company designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes GPS-enabled products and other navigation, communication, sensor-based, and information products to the automotive, aviation, marine, outdoors, and sport markets.

American electrical engineer and astronaut (1930-2019)

American astronaut (1930-2014)

American astronaut (1932–2017)

American astronaut and NASA administrator (1937–2024)

American aviator and industrialist (1878-1930)

American astronaut (1932–2020)

American astronaut

1973-2001 aerospace manufacturer

American company

American aerospace engineer (born 1943)

American aerospace engineer (1910–1990)

air warfare branch of the U.S. Army from 1926 to 1947

American aviation pioneer (1871–1948)

corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps

American test pilot (1921–1966)

designs, assembles, markets and sells commercial jet aircraft

American aeroplanes designer and businessman (1892–1981)

American aerospace engineer (1913–2000)

aircraft manufacturer in the United States