Neil Armstrong1957
Selected for the US Air Forces Man In Space Soonest program
United States · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Selected for the US Air Forces Man In Space Soonest program
Named as one of six pilot-engineers who would fly the space plane when it got off the design board
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