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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n- One Moonwalker – Charles Duke, Jr. (NC\/SC) <\/li>
- Two NASA Administrators \u2013 James Webb (NC), The first African-American NASA Administrator, Charles Bolden (SC)<\/li>
- Two Astronauts lost aboard Challenger during the accident- Michael Smith (NC), Ron McNair (SC)<\/li>
- Fifteen Astronauts representing all areas of both states (9 from NC), (5 from SC)<\/li>
- Susan Helms, First Woman Expedition Member of the ISS<\/li>
- In February of 2020, North Carolinian Christina Koch broke the record for the longest time in space by a woman. <\/li>
- The Morehead Planetarium at UNC Chapel Hill was used to train astronauts on celestial navigation from 1959-1975. Nearly every Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and Apollo-Soyuz astronaut received training at that facility.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Click the last name to view the official NASA biography<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First Name<\/th> Last Name<\/th> Birthplace<\/th> Era<\/th> Missions<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Ellen<\/td> Baker<\/a><\/td> Fayetteville, NC<\/td> Space Shuttle<\/td> STS-34, STS-50, STS-71<\/td><\/tr> Charles<\/td> Bolden<\/a><\/td> Columbia, SC<\/td> Space Shuttle<\/td> STS-31, STS-61C, STS-45, STS-60, & 12th NASA Administrator<\/td><\/tr> Charles<\/td> Brady<\/a><\/td> Pinehurst, NC<\/td> Space Shuttle<\/td> STS-78<\/td><\/tr> Curtis<\/td> Brown<\/a><\/td> Elizabethtown, NC<\/td> Space Shuttle<\/td> STS-47, STS-66, STS-77, STS-85, STS-95, STS-103<\/td><\/tr> John<\/td> Casper<\/a><\/td> Greenville, SC<\/td> Space Shuttle<\/td> STS-36, STS-54, STS-62, STS-77<\/td><\/tr> Catherine <\/td> Coleman<\/a><\/td> Charleston, SC<\/td> Space Shuttle<\/td> STS-73, STS-93, Soyuz TMA-20<\/td><\/tr> Frank<\/td> Culbertson<\/a><\/td> Charleston, SC<\/td> Space Shuttle<\/td> STS-38, STS-51, STS-105<\/td><\/tr> Charles<\/td> D<\/a>uke<\/a><\/td> Charlotte, NC<\/td> Apollo<\/td> Apollo 16, Moonwalker<\/td><\/tr> Susan <\/td> Helms<\/a><\/td> Charlotte, NC<\/td> Space Shuttle<\/td> STS-54, STS-64, STS-78, STS-101, STS-102\/105, First Woman Expedition Member of the ISS<\/td><\/tr> Thomas <\/td> Marshburn<\/a><\/td> Statesville, NC<\/td> Space Shuttle<\/td> STS-127<\/td><\/tr> William (Bill)<\/td> McArthur<\/a><\/td> Laurinburg, NC<\/td> Space Shuttle<\/td> STS-58, STS-74, STS-92<\/td><\/tr> Ronald <\/td> McNair<\/a><\/td> Lake City, SC<\/td> Space Shuttle<\/td> STS-51L, Lost in the Challenger Accident<\/td><\/tr> Michael<\/td> Smith<\/a><\/td> Beaufort, NC<\/td> Space Shuttle<\/td> STS-51L, Lost in the Challenger Accident<\/td><\/tr> William (W.E.)<\/td> Thornton<\/a><\/td> Faision, NC<\/td> Space Shuttle<\/td> STS-8, STS-51B<\/td><\/tr> James<\/td> Webb<\/a><\/td> Tally Ho, NC<\/td> Apollo<\/td> 2nd NASA Administrator<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One Moonwalker – Charles Duke, Jr. (NC\/SC) Two NASA Administrators \u2013 James Webb (NC), The first African-American NASA Administrator, Charles Bolden (SC) Two Astronauts lost aboard Challenger during the accident- Michael Smith (NC), Ron McNair (SC) Fifteen Astronauts representing all areas of both states (9 from NC), (5 from SC) Susan Helms, First Woman Expedition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinaspace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinaspace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinaspace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinaspace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinaspace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carolinaspace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/carolinaspace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinaspace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}