Flight record
3 flights on padside's record, all within 1963.
3Flights
2h 32mTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
Joseph Albert Walker was an American World War II pilot, experimental physicist, NASA test pilot, and astronaut. He was one of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15, an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the Air Force and NASA.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Background
- Born in
- Washington
- Education
- Washington & Jefferson College; Trinity High School
- Awards
- International Space Hall of Fame; Golden Plate Award; NASA Distinguished Service Medal; Air Medal; Distinguished Flying Cross; and 2 more
From Wikidata.
Flights
- X-15 | Flight 91August 22, 1963
- X-15 | Flight 90July 19, 1963
- X-15 | Flight 77January 17, 1963
Born 1921-02-20 · died 1966-06-08, aged 45