sonny

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/pao/media/rel/1997/J97-18.html

JSC named the facility near Ellington Field in 1995 in honor of the
late astronaut M. L. "Sonny" Carter, who was instrumental in
developing many of the current space-walking techniques used by
the astronauts. Carter died April 5, 1991, in a commercial plane
crash. Carter flew on a Department of Defense Shuttle mission in
November 1989 and was training for his second flight at the time of
his death.