Question: What is the name of this American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist, who was one of the historical figures encountered in the book The Smithsonian Institution?

Gore Vidal's 1998 novel The Smithsonian Institution is a fictional account of the adventures of "T." as he helps a group of scientists in the basement of the Smithsonian create the neutron bomb, and encounters historical figures such as President Abraham Lincoln, Charles Lindbergh, Eleanor Roosevelt and Mrs. Grover Cleveland. <SEP> Norma Alvares is an Indian social worker, environmental activist, lawyer and a founding member of "Goa Foundation", an environmental action group.  An alumnus of St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, she graduated in law and entered environmental activism.  Under the aegis of Goa Foundation, she initiated a public interest litigation (PIL), in 1987, to save the sand dunes of Goa, the first ever PIL filed in the state.  She has been involved in over 100 PILs and has served as an amicus curiae.  Her efforts are reported in winning a favourable court order for blocking a DuPont factory and in another one which restricted the mining activities in Goa.  She is the president of "People for Animals", an animal support group and is the founder of "Other India Book Store" and Other India Press, environmental initiatives.  Alvares is married to Claude Alvares, a known environmental activist and the couple lives in Parra, Goa with their three children, Rahul, Samir and Milind.  She was honored by the Government of India, in 2002, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri <SEP>  At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prizewinning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.  He covered the 33 ⁄ -hour, 3,600 smi alone in a single-engine purpose-built Ryan monoplane, "Spirit of St. Louis". Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), nicknamed Slim, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle, was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist.  This was the first solo transatlantic flight and the first non-stop flight between North America and mainland Europe.  Lindbergh was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve, and he received the United States' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for the feat. <SEP> Rawley Silver is an American art therapist, artist, author and educator.  She has worked with different populations with her strong belief in using art as a form of language.  She has created tests to screen for cognitive and emotional disturbances in children with hearing impairments, stroke patients and individuals with learning disabilities and those with emotional issues such as aggression and depression.  Through her work in the field, Silver has contributed over eighty published works, including journal articles, books and other publications, and she has presented at over seventy conferences and universities.  A collection of her journal articles is archived with the American Art Therapy Association, The National Museum of Women in the Arts and with the Smithsonian Institution.  Two traveling exhibits, held by the Smithsonian Institution, circulated her work with artwork from both children and adults with hearing impairments - "Shout In Silence" - and adult stroke patients - "Art As Language".  Silver has been an honorary member of the American Art Therapy Association (AATA) since 1983, and has earned awards for her research in the field in 1976, 1989, 1992 and 1996.  Silver is an honorary lifetime member of AATA and has been further honored by AATA creating an award in her name, the Rawley Silver Award for Excellence.  This award is given to one student every year that has been accepted into an art therapy program and has at least a 3.5 grade point average.