space

Burke headed one of the earliest, and most frustrating, projects in NASA history.

A “shooting star” caught his eye and made him look up, and he kept looking for the rest of his life.

Drake was one of the first and best-known figures in SETI — the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

In 1995, NASA named him the only journalist to have covered all 100 (to that time) NASA manned space launches.

His team’s job: write the operations plans and mission rules for space flight controllers to follow.

McDonald led the development of the Space Shuttle boosters, and advised NASA not to launch Challenger. He was overruled.

Kraft “personally invented the mission planning and control processes required for crewed space missions.”

She was a space architect, and got her dream job working on NASA projects.

“He put wheels on our American astronauts on the moon’s surface.”