This page is dedicated to the memory of those who have given their lives in the pursuit of the exploration of space for the United States of America.
Their names are part of the Astronaut Memorial at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and the Astronaut Hall of Fame in titusville, florida.
There are also those who have served our space program with honor and distinction, and have also fallen along the way.
To the brave men and women of Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Shuttle and the entire nasa program.
They answered the call and served their nation and all mankind.
We will not see their like again.
The crew of Apollo 1 - January 27, 1967.
Virgil I. Grissom - Second suborbital Mercury flight, "Liberty Bell 7" (MR-4) - Commander, First Manned Gemini Flight (GT-3) - Commander, Apollo 1 (AS-204)
Edward H. White II - First American Spacewalker, Gemini 4 - Commander Module Pilot, Apollo 1 (AS-204)
Roger B. Chaffee - Lunar Module Pilot, Apollo 1 (AS-204)
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Shuttle Mission 51-L
The crew of Shuttle Mission 51-L - Lost January 28, 1986
Micheal Smith, Richard Scobee, Dr. Ronald McNair, Elison Onazuka, S.Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Dr. Judith Resnik.
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Shuttle Mission STS-107
The crew of Shuttle Mission STS-107 - Lost February 1, 2003.
Rick Husband, Kalpana Chawla, William McCool, David Brown, Dr. Laurel Clark, Michael Anderson, Ilan Ramon
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And to all the other brave Astronauts and Space Pioneers who are no longer with us...
John "Jack" Swigert
Command Module Pilot, Apollo 13
December 27, 1982
Donn Eisle
Command Module Pilot, Apollo 7
December 2, 1987
Ronald E. Evans, Jr.
Command Module Pilot, Apollo 17
April 7, 1990
James B. Irwin
Lunar Module Pilot, Apollo 15
August 8, 1991
Donald K. "Deke" Slaton
Original Mercury Astronaut, Cheif of Flight Crew Operations (1962-1982), Docking Module Pilot, Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1975)
June 13. 1993
Stuart A. Roosa
Command Module Pilot, Apollo 14
December 12, 1994
Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
First American in Space, Mercury "Freedom 7" (MR-3),
Commander, Apollo 14.
July 21, 1998
Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.
Pilot, Gemini 5
Commander, Gemini 11, Apollo 12
July 8, 1999
L. Gordon Cooper
Last flight of Project Mercury, "Faith 7" (MA-9)
Commander, Gemini 5.
October 4, 2004
Walter M. Schirra
Third Mercury orbital flight, "Sigma 7" (MA-8)
Commander, Gemini 6, Apollo 7
May 2, 2007
Dr. Sally K. Ride
Mission Specialist. STS-7, STS-41G
July 23, 2012
Neil A. Armstrong
Commander, Gemini 8, Apollo 11 - First Man to walk on the Moon
August 25, 2012
C. Gordon Fullerton
Col. USAF (Ret.)
Commander - ALT-9, 12, 14, 16 - Enterprise (OV-101)
Pilot - STS-3 - Columbia (OV-102)
Commander - STS 51-F - Challenger (OV-099)
August 13, 2013
M. Scott Carpenter
Second Mercury orbital flight, "Aurora 7" (MA-7)
October 10, 2013
Edgar D. Mitchell
LMP - Apollo 14
February 4, 2016
Senator John Herchel Glenn, Jr.
First American to Orbit Earth - Friendship 7 (MA-6) February 20, 1962
Returned to Orbit - STS-95 - Discovery - October 29, 1998
December 8, 2016
Capt. Eugene Cernan, USN (Ret.)
Second Pilot - Gemini 9
LMP - Apollo 10
CDR - Apollo 17
Last Apollo Astronaut to walk on the Moon
January 16, 2017
Capt. Paul J. Weitz (USN, Ret.)
Pilot - Skyalb 2
Commander - STS-6 (Challenger 1st flight)
October 22, 2017
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RICHARD F. GORDON, JR. (CAPTAIN, USN, RET.)
NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER)
Pilot - Gemini XI
CMP - Apollo 12
November 6, 2017
Capt. Bruce A. McCandless II (Ret.)
STS-41B - 1st to fly the MMU
STS-31 - Hubble Deployment Mission
December 21, 2017
Capt. John W. Young (USN - Ret.)
Pilot - Gemini 3
Commander - Gemini X
CMP - Apollo 10
Commander - Apollo 16
Commander - STS-1, STS-9
January 5, 2018
Capt. Alan Bean (USN - Ret.)
LM Pilot - Apollo 12
CDR - Skylab 2
May 26, 2018
Col. Donald Peterson (USAF - Ret.)
MS2 - STS-6
May 27, 2018
Owen K. Garriott
Science Pilot - Skylab 3
MS 1 - STS-9 - First flight of NASA/ESA SpaceLab
April 15, 2019
Dr. Christopher C. Kraft, Jr.
Flight Director - Mercury, Gemini, Apollo
Architect of "Mission Control"
Former Director - Johnson Space Center
July 22, 2019
Col. Alfred M. Worden (USAF - RET.)
CMP - Apollo 15
March 18, 2020
Gerald P. Carr
CDR- Skylab 3 - Final manned flight
August 26, 2020
Dr. William Thronton
STS-8, STS-51-B (SpaceLab 3)
January 11, 2021
Michael Collins
Major General, USAH (Ret.)
Plt - Gemini 10
CMP - Apollo 11 - First Landing on the Moon
April 28, 2021
Brig. Gen James A. McDivitt
Cdr. - Gemini 4
Cdr. - Apollo 9
October 13, 2022
Col. Walter Cunningham (Ret.USMC)
LM Pilot - Apollo 7
Crew Flight Directorate - Skylab Project
January 3, 2023
Col. Karol J.Bobko (Ret.USAF)
Pilot - STS-6
CDR - STS51-D, STS51-J
August 17, 2023
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Lake County SpacePort 
