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Personal: Male, Married, Three children. Born in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: USAF Dynasoar Group - 1962, USAF MOL Group 1 - 1965. Inactive Entered space service: 12 November 1965. Left space service: 10 June 1969.

Born in El Dorado, Arkansas. BS in chemical engineering from University of Southern Louisiana, 1950; MS in aeronautical engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology. Colonel in USAF, married, three children, selected for X-20 Dynasoar in 1962. Selected for MOL Group 1 in 1965. After cancellation of MOL in 1969, Crews transferred to NASA Flight Crew Operations at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas. He remained at NASA as a pilot until his retirement at age 65.

1972 Early - MOL 3 (cancelled). At the time of the cancellation of the MOL program in June 1969, the first manned mission was planned for early 1972. A crew of two would have spent thirty days in orbit operating sophisticated military reconnaisance equipment and other experiments.