ANN ARBOR, MI - Michigan and Purdue will battle on land this Saturday for a football game. They are also longtime competitors in space travel, as well.

Numerous Wolverines and Boilermakers have gone to space over the last 60-plus years, consisting of NASA legends from Neil Armstrong to the Apollo 15 crew made up entirely of UM graduates.

Here are the astronauts from both universities. This does not include many other alumni that worked on the ground for NASA over the years.

University of Michigan

A pair of NASA space flights consisted of all UM alumni.

Gemini IV’s crew in 1965 included two Wolverines in James McDivitt and Ed White, both 1959 College of Engineering graduates.

That mission tasked White with “extravehicular activity,” or going outside the spacecraft to perform work on t

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