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/or space:
“We’re talking scum here. Air should be illegal if they breathe it.”
—Washington, DC, Policeman. quoted by P.J. O’Rourke in Rolling Stone (New York, 30 Nov. 1989)
“Mere human beings can’t afford to be fanatical about anything.... Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.”
—Storm Jameson (1891–1986)