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4.2 Alumni astronauts

Neil Armstrong, 1955 - The first man to walk on the moon
John Blaha - flew on Mir in 1996
Roy D. Bridges
Mark N. Brown
John H. Casper
Eugene Cernan - last astronaut to walk on the moon
Roger Chaffee - astronaut killed in Apollo 1
Richard O. Covey
Virgil Grissom, 1950 - also known as "Gus" Grissom, killed in Apollo 1
Guy S. Gardner
Gregory J. Harbaugh
Michael J. McCulley
Gary E. Payton
Mark L. Polansky - piloted Atlantis space shuttle in 2001
Jerry L. Ross - holds the US record for spacewalks
Loren J. Shriver
Janice V. Voss - aboard space shuttle Endeavor in 2000
Charles D. Walker - aboard Discovery space shuttle
Mary E. Weber- aboard Discovery in 1995
Donald E. Williams
David A. Wolf- flew on Mir in 1997

5 Famous professors

Herbert C. Brown - Nobel laureate
Eugene Spafford - CS Professor Extraordinaire, Director of CERIAS , one of 25 presidential appointees to the President’s Information Technology Advisory committee, discovered/analysed/helped to stop the first Internet Worm ( Morris Worm) in 1988
Dr. Arden Bement Jr. - Director of NIST
Dr. Richard P. Vine - Wine consultant for American Airlines

6 External links and references

Big Ten Conference

Universities and colleges in Indiana Association of American Universities

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