The Complete Book of Spaceflight: From Apollo 1 to Zero Gravity

522 Category Index
Aerodynamics and aeronautics
(Continued)
supersonic
terminal velocity
thermal barrier
transonic
wind tunnel
Aerospace administrators
Arnold, Henry H. (“Hap”) (1886–1950)
Augustine, Norman R. (1935–)
Beggs, James Montgomery (1926–)
Berkner, Lloyd V. (1905–1967)
Bondi, Hermann (1919–)
Bush, Vannevar (1890–1974)
Cortright, Edgar M. (1923–)
Doolittle, James Harold (1896–1993)
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1890–1969)
Fletcher, James Chipman (1919–1991)
Frosch, Robert A. (1928–)
Gilruth, Robert R. (1913–)
Glennan, T(homas) Keith (1905–1995)
Goldin, Daniel Saul (1940–)
Hagen, John P. (1908–1990)
Hoover, George W.
Jastrow, Robert (1925–)
Kennedy, John F. (1916–1963)
Kraft, Christopher Colombus Jr. (1924–)
Kranz, Eugene (“Gene”) F. (1933–)
Krieger, Robert L. (1916–1990)
Lunney, Glynn S. (1936–)
Marshall, George C. (1880–1959)
O’Keefe, Sean (1956–)
Paine, Thomas O. (1921–1992)
Phillips, Samuel C. (1921–1990)
Pickering, William H. (1910–)
Reagan, Ronald (1911–)
Schneider, William C.
Schriever, Bernard A. (1910–)
Seamans, Robert C., Jr. (1918–)
Toftoy, Holger N. (1903–1967)
Vandenberg, Hoyt S. (1899–1954)
Victory, John F. (1893–1975)
Webb, James Edwin (1906–1992)
Williams, Walter C. (1919–1995)
Yardley, John F. (1925–2001)
Aerospace companies
Aerojet Corporation
Arianespace
Beal Aerospace Technologies
Boeing
Celestis
China Great Wall Industry Corporation
(CGWIC)
Douglas Aircraft. See McDonnell
Douglas
Energia Rocket & Space Corporation
(Energia RSC)
Eurospace
International Launch Services (ILS)
Krunichev State Research and Production
Space Center
Lockheed Martin
Martin Marietta. See Lockheed Martin
McDonnell-Douglas
North American Aviation
Rockwell
Sea Launch
Aerospace and aviation pioneers
Crossfield, Albert Scott (1921–)
Kittinger, Joseph W. (1928–)
Lindbergh, Charles Augustus
(1902–1974)
Simons, David G. (1922–)
Walker, Joseph Albert (1921–1966)
Yeager, Charles “Chuck” E. (1923–)
See also: Astronauts and cosmonauts
History of rocketry, spaceflight,
and aviation
Astronauts and cosmonauts
Akiyama, Toyohiro (1944–)
Aldrin, Edwin Eugene “Buzz”, Jr.
(1930–)
Anders, William Alison (1933–)
Armstrong, Neil Alden (1930–)
astronaut
Avdeyev, Sergei (1956–)
Bean, Alan LaVern (1932–)
Belyayev, Pavel Ivanovich (1925–1970)
Berezovoi, Anatoly Nikolayevich
(1942–)
Borman, Frank (1928–)
Brand, Vance (1931–)
Carpenter, Malcolm Scott (1925–)
Carr, Gerald P. (1932–)
Cernan, Eugene Andrew (1934–)
Chaffee, Roger Bruce (1935–1967)
Collins, Eileen Marie (1956–)
Collins, Michael (1930–)
Conrad, Charles “Pete,” Jr. (1930–1999)
Cooper, Leroy Gordon, Jr. (1927–)
cosmonaut
Crippen, Robert Laurel (1937–)
Cunningham, R. Walter (1932–)
Dobrovolsky, Georgy Timofeyevich
(1928–1971)
Duke, Charles Moss, Jr. (1935–)
Eisele, Donn F. (1930–1987)
Evans, Ronald E. (1933–1990)
Gagarin, Yuri Alexeyevich (1934–1968)
Garneau, Marc (1949–)
Garriott, Owen K. (1930–)
Gibson, Edward G. (1936–)
Glenn, John Herschel, Jr. (1921–)
Gordon, Richard F., Jr. (1929–)
Grissom, Virgil Ivan “Gus” (1926–1967)
Haise, Fred Wallace, Jr. (1933–)
Irwin, James Benson (1930–1991)
Kerwin, Joseph Peter (1932–)
Komarov, Vladimir Mikhaylovich
(1927–1967)
Lebedev, Valentin V. (1942–)
Leonov, Alexei Archipovich (1934–)
Lousma, Jack Robert (1936–)
Lovell, James Arthur, Jr. (1928–)
Lucid, Shannon Matilda Wells (1943–)
Makorov, Oleg G. (1933–)
Mattingley, Thomas K., II (1936–)
McAuliffe, S. Christa (Corrigan)
(1948–1986)
McCandless, Bruce, II (1937–)
McDivitt, James A. (1929–)
Mercury Seven
Mercury Thirteen
mission specialist
Mitchell, Edgar Dean (1930–)
Morgan, Barbara R. (1951–)
Musgrave, (Franklin) Story (1935–)
payload specialist
Pogue, William R. (1930–)
Polyakov, Valery Vladimirovich (1942–)
Remek, Vladimir (1948–)
Ride, Sally Kristen (1951–)
Roosa, Stuart A. (1933–1994)
Savitskaya, Svetlana (1948–)
Schirra, Walter “Wally” Marty, Jr.
(1935–)
Schmitt, Harrison Hagan (1935–)
Schweikart, Russel L. (1935–)
Scott, David R. (1932–)
Shepard, Alan Bartlett, Jr. (1923–2001)
Slayton, Donald Kent “Deke”
(1924–1993)
space passenger
Stafford, Thomas P. (1930–)
Sullivan, Kathryn D. (1951–)
Swigert, John Leonard (Jack), Jr.
(1931–1982)
Tereshkova, Valentina Vladimirovna
(1937–)
Thagard, Norman E. (1943–)
Tito, Dennis (1941–)
Titov, Gherman Stepanovich (1935–)
Titov, Vladimir Georgievich (1947–)
Truly, Richard H. (1937–)
Vela, Rudolfo Neri (1952–)
Weitz, Paul J. (1932–)
White, Edward Higgins, II (1930–1967)
women in space
Worden, Alfred Merrill (1932–)
Young, John Watts (1930–)
Astronaut equipment and training
astronautics
egress
environmental space chamber
extravehicular activity (EVA). See spacewalk
Hand-held Maneuvering Unit