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Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, who served as a salvage officer and a NASA astronaut.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran Virgil Grissom, who served as a fighter pilot in Korea and was one of NASA’s first astronauts.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Coast Guard Veteran Bruce Melnick, a rescue and test pilot who later became a NASA astronaut.

This week’s America250 salute is Air Force Veteran Sidney Gutierrez, who served as an F-16 test pilot before becoming the first Hispanic American NASA astronaut.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Joe Frank Edwards Jr., who served as a fighter pilot during the Persian Gulf War and a NASA astronaut.

During Women’s History Month, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Wendy B. Lawrence, the first female Naval Academy graduate to become an astronaut.

On the 55th anniversary of the Gemini 6A mission, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran Thomas P. Stafford, who piloted the mission.

During National Native American Heritage Month, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran John B. Herrington, who served as an aviator and NASA astronaut.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran Ellison Onizuka, the first Asian American to fly in space who died on the space shuttle Challenger.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Jonny Kim, who served as a SEAL in Iraq, graduated medical school and is a NASA astronaut candidate.

Best known as the second person to walk on the moon during the historic Apollo 11 mission, Buzz Aldrin was also a highly decorated Air Force Veteran.

Alan Bean was a Navy pilot and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut who walked on the moon in the Apollo 12 mission.