| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Lew Allen, Jr. |
Military |
30-Sep-1925 |
|
Director of the NSA, 1973-77 |
| Baruch S. Blumberg |
Scientist |
28-Jul-1925 |
|
Hepatitis B vaccine |
| Edward P. Boykin |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
President of Computer Sciences, 2001-03 |
| France A. Córdova |
Educator |
5-Aug-1947 |
|
President, Purdue University |
| Max Faget |
Scientist |
26-Aug-1921 |
9-Oct-2004 |
Designer of NASA spacecraft |
| Robert R. Gilruth |
Engineer |
18-Oct-1913 |
17-Aug-2000 |
NASA scientist |
| Ronald E. Goldsberry |
Business |
12-Sep-1942 |
|
Former VP, Ford |
| J. Scott Gration |
Military |
? |
|
Major General, USAF (Ret.) |
| Michael D. Griffin |
Government |
1-Nov-1949 |
|
NASA Administrator |
| James E. Hansen |
Scientist |
29-Mar-1941 |
|
Greenhouse effect and global warming |
| Martin Harwit |
Astronomer |
9-Mar-1931 |
|
Helium-cooled rockets and infrared spectroscopy |
| Robert Jastrow |
Astronomer |
7-Sep-1925 |
8-Feb-2008 |
Red Giants and White Dwarfs |
| Caldwell Johnson |
Engineer |
1919 |
|
Designer, early NASA space program |
| Chris Kraft |
Engineer |
28-Feb-1924 |
|
Long-time voice of NASA's Mission Control |
| Robert B. Leighton |
Astronomer |
10-Sep-1919 |
9-Mar-1997 |
Leighton dishes |
| Hans Mark |
Physicist |
17-Jun-1929 |
|
US Air Force Secretary, 1979-81 |
| Mario J. Molina |
Chemist |
19-Mar-1943 |
|
Ozone depletion |
| Sean O'Keefe |
Administrator |
27-Jan-1956 |
|
NASA Administrator, 2001-05 |
| James E. Oberg |
Historian |
7-Nov-1944 |
|
Space exploration historian |
| Ellen Ochoa |
Astronaut |
10-May-1958 |
|
First hispanic female astronaut |
| Elizabeth Paté-Cornell |
Educator |
17-Aug-1948 |
|
Risk analysis expert, Stanford professor |
| Eric Reissner |
Mathematician |
5-Jan-1913 |
1-Nov-1996 |
Reissner shear-deformation plate theory |
| Gerald A. Soffen |
Astronomer |
7-Feb-1926 |
22-Nov-2000 |
Viking I mission to mars |
| Richard H. Truly |
Astronaut |
12-Nov-1937 |
|
NASA Administrator, 1989-92 |
| A. Thomas Young |
Business |
1938 |
|
President of Martin Marietta, 1990-95 |
