[PAR] [TLE] Joseph A. Walker [SEP] Joseph Albert "Joe" Walker (February 20, 1921 – June 8, 1966) flew the world's first two spaceplane flights in 1963, thereby becoming the United States' seventh man in space.  Walker was a Captain in the United States Air Force, an American World War II pilot, an experimental physicist, a NASA test pilot, and a member of the U.S. Air Force Man In Space Soonest spaceflight program.  His two X-15 experimental rocket aircraft flights in 1963 that exceeded the Kármán line – the altitude of 100 km , generally considered to mark the threshold of outer space – qualified him as an astronaut under the rules of the U.S. Air Force and the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). [PAR] [TLE] Man in Space Soonest [SEP] Man In Space Soonest (MISS) was a United States Air Force (USAF) program to put a man into outer space before the Soviet Union.  The program was cancelled on August 1, 1958, and was replaced by NASA's Project Mercury.  Only two men from the program would actually reach outer space.  The first, Joseph A. Walker, did so twice in two X-15 rocket plane tests in 1963.  Another, Neil Armstrong, became a NASA astronaut in 1962 and became the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969.
[PAR] [TLE] Joseph A. Walker [ SEP ] Joseph Albert " Joe " Walker ( February 20 , 1921 – June 8 , 1966 ) flew the world 's first two spaceplane flights in 1963 , thereby becoming the United States ' seventh man in space . Walker was a Captain in the United States Air Force , an American World War II pilot , an experimental physicist , a NASA test pilot , and a member of the U.S. Air Force Man In Space Soonest spaceflight program . His two X-15 experimental rocket aircraft flights in 1963 that exceeded the Kármán line – the altitude of 100 km , generally considered to mark the threshold of outer space – qualified him as an astronaut under the rules of the U.S. Air Force and the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale ( FAI ) . [PAR] [TLE] Man in Space Soonest [ SEP ] Man In Space Soonest ( MISS ) was a United States Air Force ( USAF ) program to put a man into outer space before the Soviet Union . The program was cancelled on August 1 , 1958 , and was replaced by NASA 's Project Mercury . Only two men from the program would actually reach outer space . The first , Joseph A. Walker , did so twice in two X-15 rocket plane tests in 1963 . Another , Neil Armstrong , became a NASA astronaut in 1962 and became the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969 .
The first one to reach outer space in the Man In Space Soonest program was which Captain in the United States Air Force, an American World War II pilot, an experimental physicist, and NASA test pilot?
The first one to reach outer space in the Man In Space Soonest program was which Captain in the United States Air Force , an American World War II pilot , an experimental physicist , and NASA test pilot ?
Joseph A. Walker
Joseph A. Walker