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Hace 4 días · Buzz Aldrin ( / ˈɔːldrɪn /; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission.
- July 1, 1971
Hace 2 días · Test pilot Glenn standing in the cockpit of a F-106B in 1961. With combat experience as a fighter pilot, Glenn applied for training as a test pilot while still in Korea. He reported to the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at NAS Patuxent River in Maryland in January 1954, and graduated in July.
- January 16, 1964
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Hace 3 días · Malcolm Scott Carpenter (May 1, 1925 – October 10, 2013) was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, astronaut and aquanaut. He was one of the Mercury Seven astronauts selected for NASA 's Project Mercury in April 1959.
30 de abr. de 2024 · Michael Melvill (born Nov. 11, 1940?, Johannesburg, S.Af.) is an American test pilot, the first commercial astronaut, and the first person to travel into space aboard a privately funded spacecraft.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
noun. Synonyms of test pilot. : a pilot who specializes in putting new or experimental airplanes through maneuvers designed to test them (as for strength) by producing strains in excess of normal. Examples of test pilot in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web The two astronauts, both [Butch Wilmore] and [Sunita Williams] are test pilots.
30 de abr. de 2024 · 30 April 1962: The Chief Research Test Pilot at NASA’s High Speed Flight Station, Joseph Albert Walker, flew the first North American Aviation X-15 hypersonic research aircraft, 56-6670, on its twenty-seventh flight. This was Flight 52 of the NASA X-15 Hypersonic Research Program.
Lockheed test pilot Louis W. Schalk, Jr. (Lockheed Martin) The A-12 was a top secret reconnaissance airplane built for the Central Intelligence Agency under the code name “Oxcart.” It was the replacement for the Agency’s high-flying but subsonic U-2 spy plane which had become vulnerable to radar-guided surface-to-air missiles.
