NASA

Abe Silverstein directed NASA Lewis Research Center and is credited with naming the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs.

Alan Bean was a NASA astronaut who flew Apollo 12 and Skylab 3.

Alexei Leonov commanded the Soviet side of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, a mission jointly conducted with NASA in 1975.

Charlie Duke was a NASA astronaut who flew Apollo 16 as Lunar Module pilot.

Chris Hadfield, a Canadian Space Agency astronaut, flew as a mission specialist and pilot on the NASA-operated Space Shuttle missions STS-74 and STS-100.

Christina Koch is a NASA astronaut assigned to the Artemis II crewed lunar flyby mission.

David Scott was a NASA astronaut who commanded Apollo 15.

Donn Eisele was a NASA astronaut who flew as Command Module pilot on Apollo 7.

Eberhard Rees succeeded Wernher von Braun as Director of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, serving from 1970 to 1973.

Ed White was a NASA astronaut who performed the first American spacewalk on Gemini 4 and died in the Apollo 1 fire.

Edgar Mitchell was a NASA astronaut who flew as Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 14 and walked on the Moon.

Eileen Collins was a NASA astronaut and the first woman to pilot and to command a Space Shuttle mission.

Frank Borman was a NASA astronaut who commanded Apollo 8, the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon.

Gene Cernan was a NASA astronaut who commanded Apollo 17 and was the last person to walk on the Moon.

George Low managed the Apollo Spacecraft Program at NASA following the Apollo 1 fire and later served as NASA Deputy Administrator.

NASA Associate Administrator for the Office of Manned Space Flight, 1963-1969.

Gus Grissom was a NASA astronaut who flew Mercury-Redstone 4 and Gemini 3, and died in the Apollo 1 fire.

Harrison Schmitt was a NASA astronaut who flew as Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 17, the only geologist to walk on the Moon.

Homer Newell served as NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications, shaping the agency's early science program.

Hugh Dryden served as NASA Deputy Administrator from the agency's founding in 1958 until his death in 1965.

James Fletcher served two separate terms as NASA Administrator, 1971 to 1977 and 1986 to 1989.

James McDivitt was a NASA astronaut who commanded Gemini 4 and Apollo 9.

Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian Space Agency astronaut, is assigned as a mission specialist on Artemis II, NASA's crewed lunar flyby mission.

John Young was a NASA astronaut who flew Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16 and two Space Shuttle missions.

Ken Mattingly was a NASA astronaut who flew Apollo 16 as Command Module pilot after being grounded from Apollo 13.

Konrad Dannenberg was a member of the von Braun rocket team who worked on the Saturn launch vehicles at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.

Kurt Debus was the first Director of NASA Kennedy Space Center, a post he held from 1962 to 1974.

Mae Jemison was a NASA astronaut who flew on STS-47, the first African American woman in space.

Michael Collins was a NASA astronaut who piloted the Apollo 11 Command Module while Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the Moon.

Pete Conrad was a NASA astronaut who commanded Apollo 12 and the first crewed Skylab mission.

Reid Wiseman is a NASA astronaut who commands the Artemis II crewed lunar flyby mission.

Richard Gordon was a NASA astronaut who flew Gemini 11 and Apollo 12.

Robert Gilruth directed NASA's own Space Task Group and then the Manned Spacecraft Center, leading the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo human spaceflight programs.

An institutional honor, not an employment record: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, founded in 1959, is named for Goddard, who died in 1945 and never worked for NASA (founded 1958).

Rocco Petrone directed NASA's Apollo Program and later served as Director of Kennedy Space Center.

Ronald Evans was a NASA astronaut who flew as Command Module pilot on Apollo 17.

Samuel Phillips, a U.S. Air Force general detailed to NASA, directed the Apollo Program from 1964 to 1969.

Stuart Roosa was a NASA astronaut who flew as Command Module pilot on Apollo 14.

T. Keith Glennan was the first Administrator of NASA, serving from 1958 to 1961.

Thomas Stafford was a NASA astronaut who flew Gemini 6A, Gemini 9A, Apollo 10 and commanded the American crew of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

Victor Glover is a NASA astronaut assigned as pilot of the Artemis II crewed lunar flyby mission.

Wally Schirra was a NASA astronaut who flew Mercury-Atlas 8, Gemini 6A and commanded Apollo 7.

Walter Cunningham was a NASA astronaut who flew as Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 7.

Director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and chief architect of the Saturn V.

William Anders was a NASA astronaut who flew as Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 8 and took the Earthrise photograph.

The Atlas launch vehicle family's Mercury-Atlas variant carried John Glenn on Friendship 7 in February 1962, the first American orbital spaceflight, flown as a NASA program (the airframe itself was built by Convair/General Dynamics, which has no entity in this atlas).

Developed and flown with the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency; ESA contributed the Huygens Titan probe.

Deep Impact was a NASA mission that released an impactor into Comet Tempel 1 in 2005 to study its interior composition.

Europa Clipper is a NASA mission, launched in 2024 to study Jupiter's moon Europa.

Explorer 1, the first satellite launched by the United States (1958), was a NASA/JPL mission flown in the agency's founding year.

The Gemini spacecraft was NASA's two-seat crewed capsule flown during Project Gemini, 1965-1966.

Jointly operated by NASA and ESA; NASA holds primary operational responsibility.

Joint NASA/Netherlands(NIVR)/UK(SERC) mission; only NASA has a matching agency entity in this atlas.

NASA is the lead partner; the ISS is jointly operated with Roscosmos, ESA, JAXA and the Canadian Space Agency under the Intergovernmental Agreement.

SERC (UK Science and Engineering Research Council) has no matching agency entity in this atlas.

Developed jointly with ESA and the Canadian Space Agency; NASA leads operations.

Lucy is a NASA mission, launched in 2021 to survey Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.

Mariner 10 was a NASA/JPL mission, the first spacecraft to visit Mercury.

Mariner 9 was a NASA/JPL mission, the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.

The Mercury spacecraft was NASA's single-seat crewed capsule flown during Project Mercury, 1961-1963.

GSFC (Goddard Space Flight Center) is a NASA field center, not a separate agency entity in this atlas.

Penn State is the science-operations partner, not a matching agency entity in this atlas.

JPL is a NASA field center, not a separate agency entity in this atlas.

Psyche is a NASA mission, launched in 2023 to study the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche.

Ranger 7 was a NASA/JPL mission, the first successful American lunar impactor probe (1964).

Stardust was a NASA mission that collected and returned samples from Comet Wild 2 in 2006.

Surveyor 1 was a NASA/JPL mission, the first American spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon (1966).

The Titan III family was developed primarily for U.S. Air Force military and reconnaissance payloads (the Air Force/Space Force has no entity in this atlas); NASA's connection is through the Titan IIIE variant, which launched the Viking Mars landers and the Voyager probes in the 1970s.

MIT is the science-operations partner, not a matching agency entity in this atlas.

JPL is a NASA field center, not a separate agency entity in this atlas.