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Also Known As Valerie LaVerne Thomas
Born February 8, 1943 (age 82) • Baltimore • Maryland
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Hugh L. Dryden
American physicist
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
president of United States
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson
American mathematician
Mary Jackson
Mary Jackson
American mathematician and engineer
Charles Bolden.
Charles Bolden
American astronaut
Dorothy Vaughan
Dorothy Vaughan
American mathematician
Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong
American astronaut
Stephanie Wilson
Stephanie Wilson
American astronaut
Michael Griffin
American aerospace engineer
David S. McKay
American astrobiologist and geologist
Nancy Grace Roman
Nancy Grace Roman
American astronomer
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
United States senator
Jessica Meir on a space walk
Jessica Meir
American astronaut
Joseph Acaba
Joseph Acaba
American astronaut
Nicole Aunapu Mann
Nicole Aunapu Mann
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Samuel P. Langley.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
American engineer
Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
American astronaut
Harry Nyquist
American physicist
Two 15-foot (4.6-metre) spherical terminals of the Van de Graaff direct current electrostatic generator, New Bedford, Mass., 1935.
Robert Jemison Van de Graaff
American physicist and inventor
Arthur Ashkin
American physicist