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<html> <head> <title>NASA</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/gov/003/000162514/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> NASA US GOVERNMENT OFFICE National Aeronautics and Space Administration, founded 1958 from the <a href="/gov/416/000171900/">National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics</a>. See also <a href="/lists/178/000068971/">Astronauts</a>. Official Website: <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/">http://www.nasa.gov/</a> <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_actors"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/590/000172074/">Lew Allen, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Sep-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jan-2010</tt></td> <td>Director of the NSA, 1973-77</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/794/000024722/">Laurie Anderson</a></td> <td><center>Performance Artist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jun-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Tape bow violinist and performance artist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/390/000130997/">Baruch S. Blumberg</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jul-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Apr-2011</tt></td> <td>Hepatitis B vaccine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/015/000170502/">Edward P. Boykin</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Computer Sciences, 2001-03</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/960/000165465/">France A. Córdova</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Aug-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Purdue University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/026/000027942/">Raymond Davis, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Oct-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-May-2006</tt></td> <td>Detected solar neutrinos</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/542/000262753/">Persi Diaconis</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jan-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Science of random numbers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/332/000110002/">John Diebold</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jun-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Dec-2005</tt></td> <td>Advocate of automation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/461/000168954/">Max Faget</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Aug-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Oct-2004</tt></td> <td>Designer of NASA spacecraft</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/031/000027947/">Riccardo Giacconi</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Discovered cosmic X-ray sources</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/849/000169342/">Robert R. Gilruth</a></td> <td><center>Engineer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Oct-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Aug-2000</tt></td> <td>NASA scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/444/000170931/">Ronald E. Goldsberry</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Sep-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Former VP, Ford</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/641/000024569/">Stephen Jay Gould</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-2002</tt></td> <td>Evolutionary scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/679/000172163/">J. Scott Gration</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>?</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Major General, USAF (Ret.)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/085/000137671/">Michael D. Griffin</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Nov-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>NASA Administrator</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/076/000169566/">James E. Hansen</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Mar-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Greenhouse effect and global warming</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/342/000174817/">Bernard A. Harris, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jun-1956</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>First black astronaut to spacewalk</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/135/000169625/">Martin Harwit</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Helium-cooled rockets and infrared spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/318/000072102/">Robert Hofstadter</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Feb-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Nov-1990</tt></td> <td>Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/326/000137912/">Robert Jastrow</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-2008</tt></td> <td>Red Giants and White Dwarfs</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/531/000170021/">Caldwell Johnson</a></td> <td><center>Engineer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Oct-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-2013</tt></td> <td>Designer, early NASA space program</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/982/000170472/">Chris Kraft</a></td> <td><center>Engineer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Long-time voice of NASA's Mission Control</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/060/000170547/">Robert B. Leighton</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1997</tt></td> <td>Leighton dishes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/004/000162515/">Hans Mark</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jun-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Air Force Secretary, 1979-81</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/793/000100493/">Mario J. Molina</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Mar-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Ozone depletion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/712/000023643/">Nichelle Nichols</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Dec-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Lt. Uhura on Star Trek</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/044/000162555/">Sean O'Keefe</a></td> <td><center>Administrator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jan-1956</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>NASA Administrator, 2001-05</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/243/000163751/">James E. Oberg</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Nov-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Space exploration historian</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/037/000163545/">Ellen Ochoa</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-May-1958</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>First hispanic female astronaut</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/507/000160027/">Elizabeth Paté-Cornell</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Aug-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Risk analysis expert, Stanford professor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/211/000165713/">Saul Perlmutter</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1959</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Accelerating expansion of the universe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/052/000099752/">Frederick Reines</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Mar-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Aug-1998</tt></td> <td>Co-Discover of the neutrino</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/113/000172594/">Eric Reissner</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jan-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Nov-1996</tt></td> <td>Reissner shear-deformation plate theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/324/000022258/">Carl Sagan</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Nov-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Dec-1996</tt></td> <td>Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/982/000276154/">Brian P. Schmidt</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Feb-1967</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Accelerating universe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/394/000027313/">Gerald A. Soffen</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Feb-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-2000</tt></td> <td>Viking I mission to mars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/577/000202968/">John P. Stapp</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jul-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Nov-1999</tt></td> <td>Rocket sled pioneer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/387/000171871/">James V. Taranik</a></td> <td><center>Geologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jun-2011</tt></td> <td>Desert Research Institute</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/573/000169066/">Richard H. Truly</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Nov-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>NASA Administrator, 1989-92</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/686/000055521/">Wernher von Braun</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Mar-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jun-1977</tt></td> <td>German-American rocket scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/891/000170381/">A. 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