The Greatest Americans of All-Time

Were truly our original astronauts:

NASA Group 1 (April 9, 1959): "The Mercury Seven"

Malcolm S. Carpenter (d. 2013)
L. Gordon Cooper (d. 2004)
John H. Glenn
Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom (d. 1967)
Walter M. "Wally" Schirra (d. 2007)
Alan B. Shepard (d. 1998)
Donald K. "Deke" Slayton (d. 1993)


NASA Group 2 (September 17, 1962): "The New Nine"

Neil Armstrong (d. 2012)
Frank Borman
Pete Conrad (d. 1999)
Jim Lovell
Jim McDivitt
Elliot See (d. 1966)
Tom Stafford
Ed White (d. 1967)
John Young


NASA Group 3 (October 17, 1963): "The Fourteen"

Buzz Aldrin
William Anders
Charles Bassett (d. 1966)
Alan Bean
Gene Cernan
Roger Chaffee (d. 1967)
Michael Collins
Walt Cunningham
Donn Eislele (d. 1987)
Theodore Freeman (d. 1964)
Richard Gordon
Rusty Schweickart
Dave Scott
Clifton Williams (d. 1967)


NASA Group 4 (June 28, 1965): "The Scientists"

Owen Garriott
Edward Gibson
Duane Graveline
Joseph Kerwin
Curt Michel (d. 2015)
Harrison Schmitt


NASA Group 5 (April 4, 1966): "The Original Nineteen"

Vance Brand
John S. Bull (d. 2008)
Gerald Carr
Charlie Duke
Joe Engle
Ron Evans (d. 1990)
Ed Givens (d. 1967)
Fred Haise
James Irwin (d. 1991)
Don Lind
Jack Lousma
Ken Mattingly
Bruce McCandless II
Edgar Mitchell (d. 2016)
William Pogue (d. 2014)
Stu Roosa (d. 1994)
Jack Swigert (d. 1982)
Paul Weitz
Al Worden


NASA Group 6 (October 4, 1967): "The Excess Eleven"

Joe Allen
Philip Chapman
Anthony England
Karl Henize (d. 1993)
Donald Holmquest
Bill Lenoir (d. 2010)
Anthony Llewellyn (d. 2013)
Story Musgrave
Brian O'Leary (d. 2011)
Robert Parker
William Thornton


NASA Group Seven (August 14, 1969):

Karol Bobko
Robert Crippen
Gordon Fullerton (d. 2013)
Hank Hartsfield (d. 2014)
Robert Overmyer (d. 1996)
Donald Peterson
Richard Truly