Selected Astronauts and Aviators
See also
Related Links
- Absolute World Records
- Early 20th-century developments in human flight
- Famous Firsts in Aviation
- Famous Planes: The World's Notable Passenger, Fighter, Bomber, Experimental, and Spy Planes
- The National Aviation Hall of Fame
- Notable Staffed Space Flights
- Space Accidents
- Space Exploration
- Space Shuttle Timeline
Biographies by Category
- Aldrin, Buzz, astronaut
- Armstrong, Neil, astronaut
- Blériot, Louis, aviator and inventor
- Boeing, William Edward, aircraft manufacturer
- Boyington, Gregory 'Pappy', aviator, world war II figure
- Bullard, Eugene Jacques, aviator
- Carpenter, Malcolm Scott, astronaut
- Cayley, Sir George, founder of aerodynamics
- Cessna, Clyde Vernon, airplane manufacturer
- Chang-Dìaz, Franklin, astronaut, scientist
- Chawla, Kalpana, astronaut
- Chimp, Ham the, astronaut
- Cochran, Jacqueline, pilot
- Coleman, Bessie, aviator
- Collins, Eileen, astronaut
- Collins, Michael, astronaut
- Cooper, Gordon, astronaut
- Corrigan, Wrong Way, aviator
- Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, inventor and aviation pioneer
- Doolittle, James, aviator, military leader, world war II figure
- Earhart, Amelia, aviator
- Fokker, Anthony, aviator
- Fossett, Steve, adventurer, business personality
- Gagarin, Yuri, astronaut
- Glenn, John Herschel, Jr., astronaut
- Goddard, Robert Hutchings, physicist and rocket expert
- Grissom, Virgil Ivan
Gus
, astronaut - Hughes, Howard, business personality, aviator
- Jemison, Mae C., astronaut, physician
- Karman, Theodor von, aeronautical engineer
- Korolev, Sergei Pavlovich, rocket designer
- Leonov, Aleksei Arkhipovich, cosmonaut
- Lindbergh, Charles Augustus, aviator
- Lowe, Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt, aeronaut and inventor
- Lucid, Shannon, astronaut and biochemist
- Markham, Beryl, aviator
- McAuliffe, Christa, astronaut, educator
- Mitchell, William
Billy
, aviator, soldier - Montgolfier, Joseph Michel and Jacques ÃÂÂtienne Montgolfier, inventors
- Ochoa, Ellen, astronaut
- Piper, William, airplane manufacturer
- Post, Wiley, aviator
- Quimby, Harriet, aviator
- Ride, Sally, astronaut
- Rutan, Burt, aerospace engineer
- Santos-Dumont, Alberto, aviator
- Selfridge, Thomas E., aviator
- Shepard, Alan Bartlett, Jr., astronaut
- Sikorsky, Igor Ivanovich, aeronautical engineer
- Slayton, Donald K.
Deke
, aviator, astronaut - Tereshkova, Valentina, astronaut
- Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich, inventor and rocket expert
- Tupolev, Andrei Nikolayevich, aeronautical engineer
- von Braun, Wernher, rocket expert
- White, Edward Higgins, 2d, astronaut
- Whittle, Sir Frank, aeronautical engineer
- Williams, O. S.
Ozzie
, aeronautical engineer - Wright brothers, airplane inventors
- Yeager, Chuck, aviator
- Young, John Watts, astronaut
- Zeppelin, Ferdinand, Graf von, army officer and airship inventor and builder
