Ronald E. Evans
Piloted the command module on Apollo 17, the last lunar flight. Ronald E. Evans was born on November 10, 1933, in St. Francis, Kansas. A graduate of Highland Park High […]
Robert Esnault-Pelterie
Aerospace Pioneer who coined the word ‘Astronautics.’ Robert Esnault-Pelterie was born in Paris on November 8, 1881. He was a French aviation pioneer who made important contributions to the beginnings […]
Joe Engle
Joe Engle (born 1932): Joe Engle was an X-15 pilot from 1963 to 1965. In that time he flew the experimental craft to altitudes above 50 miles three times. As […]
Donn F. Eisele
Command Module pilot on Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo flight. Donn Eisele was born June 23, 1930, in Columbus, Ohio. He graduated from West High School and earned a […]
Charles M. Duke Jr.
Lunar Module pilot on the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission. Charles Duke, Jr. was born October 3, 1935, in Charlotte, North Carolina but was raised in Pageland, South Carolina. After […]
Hugh L. Dryden
Helped establish NASA and served as its Deputy Administrator. Hugh Latimer Dryden was born in Pocomoke City, Maryland on July 2, 1898. His father lost the family farm during the […]
Charles S. Draper
The Father of inertial guidance
William K. Douglas
William K. Douglas was born on September 5, 1922 in Estancia, New Mexico. A 1939 graduate of Phoenix High School, in Phoenix, Arizona, he received a Bachelor of Science degree […]
Edward C. Dittmer Sr.
Edward C. Dittmer Sr. was born in Laverne, Minnesota in 1918. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, Dittmer enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1946. […]
Walter Elias Disney
Walt Disney was born in Chicago, Illinois, but his family moved to Kansas City, Missouri when he was 10. After serving in the Red Cross in France at the end […]