Lieutenant Ray Makonnen
Background
Ray Makonnen is a navigator and Lieutenant in the United States Space Exploration Wing. He is stationed at Lunar Base 1.
During the events of The Phantom Planet (1961) played by Richard Weber
Makonnen and Captain Frank Chapman blast off from Lunar Base 1 in Pegasus IV. Makonnen tells Chapman that as he gets older he thinks the best is to focus on the good and beautiful. Chapman tells Makonnen to change course, because he thinks the planetoid wont be in the same place as when Pegasus III encountered it. Pegasus IV enters a meteor shower and during it, their thrusters are damaged. Makonnen and Chapman go outside the spaceship in order to locate the damage. While they are repairing the damage, Chapmen's air supply is hit with space debris and he starts to go unconscious. While Makonnen is bringing him back into Pegasus IV, he is hit with space debris and flies off into space before praying to God and dying.