US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, founded 1958 from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. See also Astronauts.

Official Website:
http://www.nasa.gov/

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Lew Allen, Jr.	Military	30-Sep-1925	4-Jan-2010	Director of the NSA, 1973-77
Laurie Anderson	Performance Artist	5-Jun-1947		Tape bow violinist and performance artist
Baruch S. Blumberg	Scientist	28-Jul-1925	5-Apr-2011	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
Raymond Davis, Jr.	Scientist	14-Oct-1914	31-May-2006	Detected solar neutrinos
Persi Diaconis	Mathematician	31-Jan-1945		Science of random numbers
John Diebold	Author	8-Jun-1926	26-Dec-2005	Advocate of automation
Max Faget	Scientist	26-Aug-1921	9-Oct-2004	Designer of NASA spacecraft
Riccardo Giacconi	Astronomer	6-Oct-1931		Discovered cosmic X-ray sources
Robert R. Gilruth	Engineer	18-Oct-1913	17-Aug-2000	NASA scientist
Ronald E. Goldsberry	Business	12-Sep-1942		Former VP, Ford
Stephen Jay Gould	Biologist	10-Sep-1941	20-May-2002	Evolutionary scientist
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
Bernard A. Harris, Jr.	Astronaut	26-Jun-1956		First black astronaut to spacewalk
Martin Harwit	Astronomer	9-Mar-1931		Helium-cooled rockets and infrared spectroscopy
Robert Hofstadter	Physicist	5-Feb-1915	17-Nov-1990	Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons
Robert Jastrow	Astronomer	7-Sep-1925	8-Feb-2008	Red Giants and White Dwarfs
Caldwell Johnson	Engineer	16-Oct-1919	26-May-2013	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
Nichelle Nichols	Actor	28-Dec-1932		Lt. Uhura on Star Trek
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
Saul Perlmutter	Astronomer	1959		Accelerating expansion of the universe
Frederick Reines	Physicist	16-Mar-1918	26-Aug-1998	Co-Discover of the neutrino
Eric Reissner	Mathematician	5-Jan-1913	1-Nov-1996	Reissner shear-deformation plate theory
Carl Sagan	Astronomer	9-Nov-1934	20-Dec-1996	Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos
Brian P. Schmidt	Astronomer	24-Feb-1967		Accelerating universe
Gerald A. Soffen	Astronomer	7-Feb-1926	22-Nov-2000	Viking I mission to mars
John P. Stapp	Scientist	11-Jul-1910	13-Nov-1999	Rocket sled pioneer
James V. Taranik	Geologist	23-Apr-1940	21-Jun-2011	Desert Research Institute
Richard H. Truly	Astronaut	12-Nov-1937		NASA Administrator, 1989-92
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

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