June 25 – Man in Space Soonest (USA) Neil Armstrong, William B. As of 2022, the only surviving X-15 pilot is Joe Engle. The Navy selected Lieutenant Lloyd Hoover (1924-2016 ) as Peterson's replacement, though he never trained or flew. White and Rushworth were succeeded by Captain Joe Engle (1963), Captain William Joseph Knight (1964) and Major Michael Adams (1966). McKay (1960), Milton Thompson (1963) and William H. Walker and Armstrong were eventually replaced by NASA pilots John B. The first NASA pilots were Joseph Walker and Neil Armstrong. When Kincheloe was killed in an accident through a different rocket aircraft program, White became prime pilot and Captain Robert Rushworth became his backup.
Air Force Captains Iven Kincheloe (prime pilot) and Robert White (backup) were assigned to the X-15 in 1957. Scott Crossfield and Alvin White were the prime and backup North American Aviation test pilots who first became involved with the project. There was no formal selection process, since everyone chosen was already a qualified test pilot. North American X-15 Pilots Group (USA) Fourteen pilots were directly involved with the X-15, although only twelve actually flew the vehicles.
More than 500 people have trained as astronauts.
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This includes national space programs and private industry programs which train and/or hire their own professional astronauts. While the term astronaut is sometimes applied to anyone who trains for travels into space-including scientists, politicians, journalists, and tourists-this article lists only professional astronauts, those who have been selected to train as a profession. However, with the advent of suborbital flight starting with privately funded SpaceShipOne in 2004, a new category of astronaut was created: the commercial astronaut. Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies. This is a list of astronauts by year of selection: people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.
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