ORGANIZATION

Official Website:
http://www.explorers.org/

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Buzz Aldrin	Astronaut	20-Jan-1930		Second man on the Moon
Neil Armstrong	Astronaut	5-Aug-1930	25-Aug-2012	First man on the Moon
Isaac Asimov	Author	2-Jan-1920	6-Apr-1992	Foundation
Hiram Bingham	Politician	19-Nov-1875	6-Jun-1956	US Senator, discovered Machu Picchu
Ben Bova	Author	28-Nov-1932		Science fiction writer
Charles F. Brush III	Archaeologist	3-Apr-1923	1-Jun-2006	Explorers Club president 1978-81
James Cameron	Film Director	16-Aug-1954		Terminator, Titanic, and Avatar
Jacques Cousteau	Activist	11-Jun-1910	25-Jun-1997	Oceanographer, environmentalist
Charles Duke	Astronaut	3-Oct-1935		10th to walk on the Moon
George Eastman	Inventor	12-Jul-1854	14-Mar-1932	Inventor of the Kodak camera
Ranulph Fiennes	Explorer	7-Mar-1944		World explorer
Jack Fletcher	Photographer	1917	31-Dec-2003	National Geographic photographer
Malcolm Forbes	Business	19-Aug-1919	24-Feb-1990	Forbes publisher, Faberge collector
Steve Fossett	Aviator	22-Apr-1944	3-Sep-2007	First to cross Pacific in a balloon
Jim Fowler	Naturalist	9-Apr-1932		Did all the work on Wild Kingdom
Murray Gell-Mann	Physicist	15-Sep-1929		Quarks and strangeness
J. Paul Getty, Sr.	Business	15-Dec-1892	6-Jun-1976	Founder of Getty Oil Company
John Glenn	Astronaut	18-Jul-1921		First American to orbit earth
Arthur Godfrey	Actor	31-Aug-1903	16-Mar-1983	Arthur Godfrey and His Friends
Barry Goldwater	Politician	1-Jan-1909	29-May-1998	US Senator from Arizona, 1953-65, 1969-87
Jane Goodall	Naturalist	3-Apr-1934		Primate researcher
Thor Heyerdahl	Explorer	6-Oct-1914	18-Apr-2002	Kon-Tiki
Edmund Hillary	Explorer	20-Jul-1919	11-Jan-2008	First to summit Mt. Everest
L. Ron Hubbard	Religion	13-Mar-1911	24-Jan-1986	Perpetrated Dianetics, Scientology
Alfred Kohlberg	Business	27-Jan-1887	7-Apr-1960	The China Lobby Man
Richard Leakey	Anthropologist	19-Dec-1944		Excavated Koobi Fora
Charles Lindbergh	Aviator	4-Feb-1902	26-Aug-1974	Transatlantic soloist
Tenzing Norgay	Explorer	15-May-1914	9-May-1986	With Edmund Hilllary on Everest
Scott E. Parazynski	Astronaut	28-Jul-1961		Shuttle astronaut, summited Everest
Robert E. Peary	Explorer	6-May-1856	20-Feb-1920	First to reach the North Pole
Andrew Revkin	Journalist	c. 1956		New York Times science reporter
Sally Ride	Astronaut	26-May-1951	23-Jul-2012	First American woman in space
Theodore Roosevelt	Head of State	27-Oct-1858	6-Jan-1919	26th US President, 1901-09
Carl Safina	Author	23-May-1955		Song for the Blue Ocean
Thomas P. Stafford	Astronaut	17-Sep-1930		Gemini 6 & 9, Apollo 10, Apollo-Soyuz
Kathryn D. Sullivan	Astronaut	3-Oct-1951		Columbus Center for Science and Industry
James V. Taranik	Geologist	23-Apr-1940	21-Jun-2011	Desert Research Institute
Norman Thagard	Astronaut	3-Jul-1943		Shuttle astronaut

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