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Purdue earned its nickname as “the cradle of astronauts,” by graduating 22 people to date who have been selected for space flight. Some of those astronauts include Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan, the first and last men to walk on the moon, and Virgil “Gus” Grissom and Roger Chaffee, who died in 1967 during a preflight test of Apollo I.
