Astronauts
- Guion S. Bluford, astronaut, first African-American man in space—Philadelphia
- Pete Conrad, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab astronaut, third man to walk on the Moon—Philadelphia
- Michael Fincke—Pittsburgh
- James Irwin, Apollo 15- Pittsburgh
- Glynn Lunney– NASA engineer – Old Forge
- David Medved, trained astronaut and physicist—Philadelphia
- Paul W. Richards, Shuttle and ISS astronaut—Dunmore
- Theodore Freeman, Group 3 astronaut; killed in training jet accident—Haverford
- Patricia Hilliard Robertson, 1998 Astronaut Group; killed in private airplane accident—Indiana
- Paul J. Weitz, Skylab and Shuttle astronaut—Erie
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“Just opening up the door, having this ordinary person fly, says a lot for the future. You can always equate astronauts with explorers who were subsidized. Now you are getting someone going just to observe. And then you’ll have the settlers.”
—Christa McAuliffe (1948–1986)