Chuck Yeager and his Bell X-1 experimental supersonic plane, named
after his wife.

Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager is a retired major general in the
United States Air Force and former test pilot. He was the first pilot
to travel faster than sound in 1947.

Nov.-Dec. 2010

Yeager is depicted by actor Sam Shepard in the 1983 film  "The Right Stuff".

2009

             
              Eddie Cochran

        
                 Space Shuttle Columbia memorial at Arlington Cemetery

                
The crew of the space shuttle Challenger, from left, Ellison Onizuka, Mike 
Smith, Christa McAuliffe, Dick Scobee, Greg Jarvis, Ron McNair and Judy
Resnick. (NASA photo)

Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial in Arlington Cemetery