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NASA and Aerospace

Name Class year Notability References
Eric Boe 1997 NASA Astronaut (STS-126, STS-133)
Michael R. Clifford 1982 NASA Astronaut (STS-53, STS-59, STS-76); Former US Army lieutenant colonel
Jan Davis 1975 Retired NASA Astronaut (STS-47, STS-60, STS-85); current director of the Safety and Mission Assurance directorate at Marshall Space Flight Center
James Henry Deese 1935 NASA administrator
Ben T. Epps 1904 Known as "Georgia's First Aviator" was an American aviation pioneer. In 1907, he built a monoplane of his own design, now known as the Epps 1907 Monoplane, followed by other original monoplane and biplane designs.
Gabriel Georgiades 1979 Professor of Aerospace Engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
L. Blaine Hammond 1974 Retired NASA Astronaut (STS-39, STS-64)
Charlie Hillard 1958 American aerobatics pilot, and the first American to win the world aerobatics title.
Scott J. Horowitz 1982 Retired NASA Astronaut (STS-75, STS-82, STS-101, STS-105)
Ellis L. Johnson 1960 Coca-Cola Chaired Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech
Susan Still Kilrain 1985 Retired NASA Astronaut (STS-83, STS-94)
Robert S. Kimbrough 1998 NASA Astronaut (STS-127); Among the first candidates selected for astronaut training in the United States following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
Charles Kohlhase 1957 Worked for forty years at NASA/JPL leading the design of several robotic deep-space planetary missions.
Timothy Kopra 1995 NASA Astronaut (STS-127); Flight engineer and science officer of the International Space Station ; US Army lieutenant colonel
Sandra Magnus 1996 NASA Astronaut (STS-112, STS-126, STS-119, STS-135); member of the ISS Expedition 18
William S. McArthur 1983 NASA Astronaut (STS-58, STS-74, STS-92); veteran of three Space Shuttle missions; veteran of one mission to the International Space Station via the Russian Soyuz capsule
Alan G. Poindexter 1986 NASA Astronaut (STS-122, STS-131)
James R. Thompson, Jr. 1958 Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center located in Huntsville, Alabama from 1986 to 1989, and NASA's deputy director from 1989 to 1991.
Joe F. Thompson 1971 Aerospace engineer and chaired professor at Mississippi State University known for contributions to the field of computational fluid dynamics.
Richard H. Truly 1959 Retired NASA Astronaut (Approach and Landing Tests, STS-2, STS-8); Retired Vice Admiral in the United States Navy; 8th Administrator of NASA (1989 to 1992); head of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (1993 to 1998)
Douglas H. Wheelock 1992 NASA Astronaut (STS-120, Soyuz TMA-19, Expedition 24/25)
John Young 1952 Retired NASA Astronaut (Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9); First commander of the space shuttle, one of 12 men to walk on the Moon on Apollo 16

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