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People

The aviators, scientists, engineers and astronauts who have shaped the story of air and space flight

Discover Air & Space articles about the people who have shaped the history of flight – and those who will shape its future.
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The pilot in his 100-horsepower Cassutt racer, in which he set world altitude and speed records.

The Man Who’s Flown Everything

Robert “Hoot” Gibson’s priorities: (1) Fly. (2) Fly some more.
May 2009 | By Robin White

Flights & Fancy: Homage

May 2009 | By Peter M. Cleland

Major J.T. Bachmann pulls off the gloves and grins after an engine run in the F-35A.

Marine One

Meet J.T. Bachmann, the first USMC pilot to fly the Joint Strike Fighter.
April 09, 2009 | By Michael Klesius

The Mercury Seven: (from left) Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton.

The Seven

In 1959, a group of military pilots became Astronaut Heroes overnight, and created an American icon that survives to this day.
April 07, 2009 | By Matthew Hersch

During a recent visit to the National Air and Space Museum, Gibson poses with models of some of his rides.

The Hoot List

All the aircraft the legendary pilot has ever flown.
March 17, 2009 | By Robert L. Gibson

In Dads footsteps: Sean and Eric Tucker in 1983

Family Formation

The son of famed airshow pilot Sean Tucker follows in his father’s smoke trails.
March 17, 2009 | By Jill Michaels

Astronaut Walter Schirra during the 11-day Apollo 7 flight in October 1968. Schirra and crewmates Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham suffered flu-like symptoms, which many now believe were due to space sickness.

Sick in Space

It’s not just a problem for astronauts anymore.
March 09, 2009 | By Michael Klesius

Rick Searfoss, former space shuttle commander, now XCOR’s chief test pilot, has helped make the desert town of Mojave the world capital of civilian manned rocket vehicle flight.

License to Thrill

Meet the first commercial rocketship pilots.
March 2009 | By Michael Belfiore

The hardest working band in the space business, at the 2004 RE/MAX Ballunar Liftoff Festival.

Max Q Live

In space no one can hear you sing.
March 2009 | By Michael Cassutt

Sullenberger inside an MD-80 in 2001, with daughters Kate (left) and Kelly.

A&S Interview: Sully’s Tale

Chesley Sullenberger talks about That Day, his advice for young pilots, and hitting the ditch button (or not).
February 18, 2009 | By Linda Shiner

George Mosolov toured the National Air and Space Museum in 2007.

A&S Interview: Georgy Mosolov

A top Soviet-era test pilot talks about his favorite MiGs and his friend Yuri Gagarin.
January 22, 2009 | By Tony Reichhardt

A world traveler, the dapper Julian founded Black Eagle Airline in 1946 to ferry goods between North and South America.

The Black Eagle of Harlem

The truth behind the tall tales of Hubert Fauntleroy Julian.
January 2009 | By David Shaftel

Among the locals helping the Wrights were Tom Beacham (second from right) with young son John and his dog Bounce.

Present at Creation

From five witnesses came a family tradition to honor the moment the airplane was born.
January 2009 | By Tom Crouch

Malin with the prototype of one of his cameras in 1999. The flight version was lost on the ill-fated Mars Polar Lander later that year.

A Cameraman on Mars

If you really want to know the planet, flip through Mike Malin’s photo album.
January 2009 | By Andrew Chaikin

Red Whittaker with his namesake, Red Rover II. Hours after Google announced its Lunar X Prize, Whittaker threw his ’bot in the ring.

Red and The Robots

Red Whittaker’s rovers have already gone where no robot has gone before. Will one of them make it to the moon?
January 2009 | By Geoffrey Little

Women Who Fly

Portraits of female pilots
December 19, 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

The first humans to travel to another world get a sendoff from the closeout crew before boarding their spacecraft, December 21, 1968. Bill Anders is at right.

To Boldly Go

Sending Apollo 8 to the moon was a risky mix of cold war politics, bravery, and the faith of one man, George Low, in his engineers.
December 19, 2008 | By Michael Klesius

The recovery crew arrived five hours after the Soyuz landed.

If I Were to Land on Mars...

A small malfunction lands three astronauts on Russia’s version of the Red Planet.
November 2008 | By Don Pettit

One of these shuttle astronauts could get the call for a moon mission. Top to bottom, left to right: Terry Virts, mission specialists Robert Behnken, Karen Nyberg, pilots Jim “Vegas” Kelly, Mark Kelly, Pam Melroy, Randy Bresnik, and mission specialist Megan McArthur.

Fly Us to the Moon

The next lunar explorers will soon report to Houston. Are some already there?
November 2008 | By Michael Cassutt

Ken Blackburn designs small, unmanned research craft for the military and small, unmanned paper airplanes for everybody.

Toy Story

How tossing paper airplanes guided the career of an aerospace engineer.
November 2008 | By Giles Lambertson


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