HONOR

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Buzz Aldrin	Astronaut	20-Jan-1930		Second man on the Moon
Neil Armstrong	Astronaut	5-Aug-1930		First man on the Moon
Hap Arnold	Military	25-Jun-1886	15-Jan-1950	Commander, US Army Air Corps, WWII
Alexander Graham Bell	Inventor	3-Mar-1847	2-Aug-1922	Inventor of the telephone
Lawrence Bell	Business	5-Apr-1894	20-Oct-1956	Founder of Bell Helicopter
Vincent Bendix	Inventor	12-Aug-1881	27-Mar-1945	Founder of Bendix Corporation
William Boeing	Business	1-Oct-1881	28-Sep-1956	Founder of Boeing, United Airlines
Frank Borman	Astronaut	14-Mar-1928		First to circumnavigate moon
Gene Cernan	Astronaut	14-Mar-1934		Last man on the moon (Apollo 17)
Michael Collins	Astronaut	31-Oct-1930		Apollo 11 command module pilot
Pete Conrad	Astronaut	2-Jun-1930	8-Jul-1999	Apollo 12 mission commander, 3rd on moon
Donald W. Douglas	Business	6-Apr-1892	1-Feb-1981	Founder of Douglas Aircraft Co.
Amelia Earhart	Aviator	24-Jul-1897	2-Jul-1937	Misplaced aviatrix
Henry Ford	Business	30-Jul-1863	7-Apr-1947	Founder of Ford Motors
Joe Foss	Military	17-Apr-1915	1-Jan-2003	WWII ace, Governor of South Dakota
Steve Fossett	Aviator	22-Apr-1944	3-Sep-2007	First to cross Pacific in a balloon
Robert R. Gilruth	Engineer	18-Oct-1913	17-Aug-2000	NASA scientist
John Glenn	Astronaut	18-Jul-1921		First American to orbit earth
Arthur Godfrey	Actor	31-Aug-1903	16-Mar-1983	Arthur Godfrey and His Friends
Barry Goldwater	Politician	1-Jan-1909	29-May-1998	US Senator from Arizona, 1953-65, 1969-87
Howard Hughes	Business	24-Sep-1905	5-Apr-1976	Insane billionaire
Kelly Johnson	Engineer	27-Feb-1910	21-Dec-1990	Lockheed Skunk Works plane designer
Theodore von Kármán	Mathematician	11-May-1881	7-May-1963	Kármán vortices
Anne Morrow Lindbergh	Aviator	22-Jun-1906	7-Feb-2001	Wife of Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh	Aviator	4-Feb-1902	26-Aug-1974	Transatlantic soloist
Jim Lovell	Astronaut	25-Mar-1928		Apollo 13
Glenn L. Martin	Engineer	17-Jan-1886	5-Dec-1955	Martin Aircraft Co.
Jack Northrop	Business	10-Nov-1895	18-Feb-1981	All-wing aircraft
Wiley Post	Aviator	22-Nov-1898	15-Aug-1935	First pilot to fly solo round the world
Eddie Rickenbacker	Aviator	8-Oct-1890	23-Jul-1973	Flying ace shot down 22 planes in WWI
Sally Ride	Astronaut	26-May-1951	23-Jul-2012	First American woman in space
Burt Rutan	Scientist	17-Jun-1943		Homebrew aircraft guru
Wally Schirra	Astronaut	12-Mar-1923	3-May-2007	Commander of Apollo 7
Igor Sikorsky	Business	25-May-1889	26-Oct-1972	Helicopter magnate
Deke Slayton	Astronaut	1-Mar-1924	13-Jun-1993	Original Mercury 7 astronaut
Frederick W. Smith	Business	11-Aug-1944		Founder and CEO of Federal Express
Elmer Sperry	Inventor	12-Oct-1860	10-Jun-1930	Gyroscopic compass
Lawrence B. Sperry	Inventor	22-Dec-1892	13-Dec-1923	Invented the autopilot
Thomas P. Stafford	Astronaut	17-Sep-1930		Gemini 6 & 9, Apollo 10, Apollo-Soyuz
John P. Stapp	Scientist	11-Jul-1910	13-Nov-1999	Rocket sled pioneer
James Stockdale	Military	23-Dec-1923	5-Jul-2005	H. Ross Perot's would-be Vice President
Paul Tibbets	Military	23-Feb-1915	1-Nov-2007	Pilot of the Enola Gay
Wernher von Braun	Scientist	23-Mar-1912	16-Jun-1977	German-American rocket scientist
Orville Wright	Aviator	19-Aug-1871	30-Jan-1948	Co-Inventor of the airplane
Wilbur Wright	Aviator	16-Apr-1867	30-May-1912	Co-Inventor of the airplane
Chuck Yeager	Aviator	13-Feb-1923		Test pilot, first to break speed of sound

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