Peter H. Diamandis M.D.
Peter H. Diamandis (born 1961): This American engineer is best known as the founder and chair of what is now the Ansari X-Prize Foundation. A native of the Bronx, Diamandis […]
Experimental Delta Clipper
On August 17, 2013, the DC-X/XA Team became the first team to be inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame. A Team Member Induction criteria was created to determine […]
Louis Damblanc
Built and launched the first modern multi-staged rockets. Louis Damblanc was born in France on June 29, 1889. He was a well-educated inventor interested in research in aeronautics, astronautics, mechanics, […]
Ronnie W. Cunningham
Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo flight. Ronnie W. “Walter” Cunningham was born March 16, 1932, in Creston, Iowa. He graduated from Venice High School in […]
Albert S. Crossfield
Albert “Scotty” Crossfield was born in Berkeley, California, on October 2, 1921, the son of an oil company executive. After flying in an airplane for the first time at the […]
Walter Cronkite
Walter L. Cronkite Jr., internationally renowned as a news anchorman and correspondent for CBS news, was also regarded as a leading authority on the American manned space program. He brought […]
Gaetano A. Crocco
The founder of the Italian Rocket Society and leading space scientist. Born in Naples, Italy on October 26, 1877, Gaetano Crocco began working with solid-propellant rockets in 1927. He had […]
Robert L. Crippen
Robert L. Crippen was born in Beaumont, Texas, on September 11, 1937. He grew up in Porter, Texas, where his mother, Ruth C. Crippen ran a tavern for 40 years […]
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who put forth the theory that the Sun is at rest near the center of the Universe, and that the Earth, spinning on its […]
Leroy G. Cooper Jr.
Flew the last Mercury mission, longest of program. Leroy Gordon “Gordo” Cooper, Jr. was born on March 6, 1927, in Shawnee, Oklahoma. His father, a colonel in the US Army […]