1904-1999

North American Aviation, 1934-1967
President, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board

North American Rockwell, 1967-1978
President, Chief Executive Officer

This guy kept Stormy in line.

1895-1962

North American Aviation, 1934-1962
President, General Manager, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board

Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr.

(November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) (Rear Admiral, USN, Ret.)

was the second person and the first American in space.

He later commanded the Apollo 14 mission, and

was the fifth person to walk on the moon.

He was also one of many famous descendants of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren.

Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., also noted as Gordo Cooper,

(6 March 1927 – 4 October 2004) was an American astronaut.

Cooper was one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury,

the first manned-space effort by the United States.

He flew the longest spaceflight of the Mercury project,

was the first American to sleep in orbit and has been noted as the

last American to fly alone in earth orbit thus far.

Virgil Ivan Grissom, more widely known as Gus Grissom,

(3 April 1926 – 27 January 1967) was one of the original

NASA Project Mercury astronauts and a

United States Air Force pilot. He was the second

American to fly in space. Grissom was killed along

with fellow astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffee

during a training exercise and pre-launch test for the

 Apollo 1 mission at the Kennedy Space Center.

He was a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross

and, posthumously, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.