American physicist and inventor who specializes in the field of gravity. He conceived the Lunar Laser Ranging Program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Faller
Was the head of the Communications section at NASA starting with Apollo 9. Fendell would use a camera mounted on the Lunar Rover to perfectly capture the lunar liftoff of the Apollo 17 Lunar Module Challenger
(7 February 1926 - 21 November 2009) was a Soviet cosmonaut and an eminent space engineer. Feoktistov also wrote several books on space technology and exploration. The Feoktistov crater on the Far Side of the Moon is named in his honor
American Systems Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; gained brief media notoriety in August 2012, when he wore an unusual mohawk hairstyle during the Curiosity landing on Mars
Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent (Born: 1928) He flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 16 missions. After leaving the space programme in 1982 he became the Deputy Director of the OKB in Kharkiv
US WWII army vet (ETO, 287th Combat Engineers) and NASA engineer, born 1924. Project chief scientist and manager for Pioneer planetary missions 6-13. Pioneer 10 and 11 the first spacecrafts to Jupiter and Saturn, and the first to leave the solar system
NASA/Apollo 11: Engineer who invented the 'barbecue roll' for rotating the flight capsule that balanced temperature while in flight, a maneuver that later saved Apollo 13
Administrator of NASA/National Aeronautics and Space Administration who gained the approval of the Nixon Administration on January 5, 1972, to develop the Space Shuttle as the follow-on human space flight effort of the agency
Research test pilot XB-60 & X-15 aircraft & other aircraft. Flew B-29 & B-50 which launched X-1 & X-2 rocket plane. 1966 became chief test pilot @ NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility where he tested X-15, 747 Shuttle Carri
German physicist, astronaut. Flew on Shuttle mission STS 61-A. In college, helped dig the 'Tunnel 57' escape route under the Berlin Wall. Killed in an airshow crash in 1995