Air and Space
- Neil Armstrong, Purdue University, 1955 - Commander of Apollo 11 and first man to walk on the moon
- William F. Durand, Michigan State, 1880 - First civilian chair of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the forerunner of NASA
- Jon McBride, West Virginia, 1964 - NASA Astronaut, Space Shuttle Columbia
- F. Story Musgrave, Syracuse University, 1958 - NASA Astronaut, Space Shuttle Challenger, Space Shuttle Columbia
- Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, Univ., of Missouri, 1889 - Astronomer for the United States Navy
- Joel Stebbins, Univ. of Nebraska - Lincoln, 1899 - Astronomer
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Famous quotes containing the words air and, air and/or space:
“The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I remember when I was first assigned to jets. I said to the colonel, “Colonel, I joined this man’s air force to fly an airplane. But nobody’s gonna hitch me to no Roman candle.””
—Kurt Neumann (1906–1958)
“Shall we now
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,
And sell the mighty space of our large honors
For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
I had rather be a dog and bay the moon
Than such a Roman.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)