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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	25-Aug-2012	First man on the Moon
Norman Augustine	Business	27-Jul-1935		CEO of Martin Marietta, 1987-97
Alan Bean	Astronaut	15-Mar-1932		Apollo 12, Skylab Mission II astronaut
Frank Borman	Astronaut	14-Mar-1928		First to circumnavigate moon
Scott Carpenter	Astronaut	1-May-1925	10-Oct-2013	Mercury astronaut
Arthur C. Clarke	Novelist	16-Dec-1917	19-Mar-2008	2001: A Space Odyssey
Vance D. Coffman	Business	3-Apr-1944		CEO of Lockheed Martin, 1998-2004
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
Robert Crippen	Astronaut	11-Sep-1937		Pilot of first shuttle mission, STS-1
James Doolittle	Aviator	14-Dec-1896	27-Sep-1993	Doolittle Raid against Tokyo in 1942
Don Fuqua	Politician	20-Aug-1933		Congressman from Florida, 1963-87
Owen K. Garriott	Astronaut	22-Nov-1930		Skylab, Spacelab astronaut
John Glenn	Astronaut	18-Jul-1921		First American to orbit earth
Michael D. Griffin	Government	1-Nov-1949		NASA Administrator
Gus Grissom	Astronaut	3-Apr-1926	27-Jan-1967	Second American in space
Guillermo Haro	Astronomer	21-Mar-1913	26-Apr-1988	Herbig-Haro objects
Bernard A. Harris, Jr.	Astronaut	26-Jun-1956		First black astronaut to spacewalk
Robert Jastrow	Astronomer	7-Sep-1925	8-Feb-2008	Red Giants and White Dwarfs
Jim Lovell	Astronaut	25-Mar-1928		Apollo 13
Ruben Mettler	Business	23-Feb-1924	23-May-2006	CEO of TRW, 1969-77
Carl Sagan	Astronomer	9-Nov-1934	20-Dec-1996	Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos
Wally Schirra	Astronaut	12-Mar-1923	3-May-2007	Commander of Apollo 7
Jack Schmitt	Astronaut	3-Jul-1935		12th Man on the Moon
Rusty Schweickart	Astronaut	25-Oct-1935		Apollo 9 Lunar Module pilot
David Scott	Astronaut	6-Jun-1932		Commander, Apollo 15
Alan Shepard	Astronaut	18-Nov-1923	21-Jul-1998	First American in space
Deke Slayton	Astronaut	1-Mar-1924	13-Jun-1993	Original Mercury 7 astronaut
Robert J. Stevens	Business	c. 1954		CEO of Lockheed Martin
Jack Swigert	Astronaut	30-Aug-1931	27-Dec-1982	Command Module Pilot on Apollo 13
James V. Taranik	Geologist	23-Apr-1940	21-Jun-2011	Desert Research Institute
Clyde W. Tombaugh	Astronomer	4-Feb-1906	17-Jan-1997	Discovered Pluto
Harold C. Urey	Chemist	29-Apr-1893	5-Jan-1981	Discovered Deuterium
James Van Allen	Astronomer	7-Sep-1914	9-Aug-2006	Discovered the Van Allen Belt
Wernher von Braun	Scientist	23-Mar-1912	16-Jun-1977	German-American rocket scientist
A. Thomas Young	Business	1938		President of Martin Marietta, 1990-95
John Young	Astronaut	24-Sep-1930		9th to walk on the Moon
Fritz Zwicky	Astronomer	14-Feb-1898	8-Feb-1974	Astrophysicist at CalTech

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