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Buzz Aldrin
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.
Frank Borman
American astronaut (1928–2023)
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Olin Graham is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior United States senator from South Carolina, a seat he has held since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, he chaired the Senate Committee on the Judiciary from 2019 to 2021. Graham served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1993 to 1995 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003.
David Scott
American engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, former test pilot, and former NASA astronaut (born 1932)
Eileen Collins
Astronaut and United States Air Force pilot
Michael P. Anderson
astronaut, scientist (1959-2003)
Rick Husband
American astronaut (1957-2003)
Catherine Coleman
American astronaut, chemist, United States Air Force officer
Dick Scobee
American astronaut
Ellison Onizuka
American astronaut from Kealakekua, Kona, Hawaii, first Asian American to reach space, later died in the Space Shuttle Challenger accident
Alfred Worden
American astronaut (1932–2020)
Stuart Roosa
American astronaut (1933–1994)
Joseph Kittinger
American military pilot (1928–2022)
Jacqueline Cochran
American aviator and businesswoman (1906–1980)
Martha McSally
American politician and military pilot (born 1966)
Hal Clement
American author (1922–2003)
Lloyd Bentsen
American politician (1921–2006)
Lee Archambault
astronaut, test pilot
Ronald J. Garan
American astronaut
Frederick D. Gregory
American astronaut
Richard O. Covey
American astronaut
Loren Shriver
American astronaut
Kevin A. Ford
American astronaut
Guion Bluford
American astronaut (born 1942)
John Casper
American astronaut
John E. Blaha
American astronaut
Raja Chari
American astronaut
Mike Mullane
American astronaut
Ronald J. Grabe
American astronaut
Guy Gardner
American astronaut
Doug Collins
American lawyer and politician (born 1966)
Archie Williams
American sprinter (1915–1993)
Arthur Goldberg
American lawyer, politician and civil servant (1908-1990)
Charles L. Veach
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal (1944–1995)
Gail Halvorsen
United States Air Force pilot (1920–2022)
Gene Raymond
actor, singer, composer, producer, director
Gary Payton
American astronaut
Harriet A. Hall
American medical doctor and skeptic
Gabby Gabreski
American flying ace (1919-2002)
Bill Johnson
American politician and academic administrator (born 1954)
Nancy Harkness Love
American aviator (1914–1976)
Frank Kurtz
Diver and Air Force officer
Samuel Pearson Goddard Jr.
Governor of Arizona, 1965-1967
Charles Edward Jones
American astronaut (1952-2001)
August Pfluger
American military officer and politician (born 1977)
Thomas Ferebee
American bombardier (1918–2000)
William John Knight
American politician (1929–2004)
Alexander Butterfield
American military officer and government official (1926–2026)
Kermit Beahan
bombardier who dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki
Charles McGee
American Air Force officer
Richard E. Cole
career officer in the United States Air Force and participant in the Doolittle Raid (1915-2019)
Pete Peterson
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
L. Fletcher Prouty
American banker
Fitzhugh L. Fulton
American test pilot (1925–2015)
Wendy Rogers
Arizona far right politician and conspiracy theorist
Steve Pisanos
American flying ace (1919-2016)
Laurie Calvin Battle
American politician (1912-2000)
Charles H. MacDonald
American flying ace (1914–2002)
Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell
American fighter pilot
Joe M. Jackson
American military officer (1923-2019)