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Elliot See (July 23, 1927 – February 28, 1966) was an American engineer,
United States Naval Aviator,
test pilot, and
NASA astronaut. Selected as part of
NASA Astronaut Group 2 in 1962, See was the prime command pilot for what would have been his first space flight,
Gemini 9. He was killed in 1966, along with his Gemini 9 crewmate
Charles Bassett, when
their jet aircraft crashed at the
McDonnell Aircraft plant in
St. Louis, where they were about to undergo two weeks of
space-rendezvous simulator training. This photograph depicts See participating in water-egress training in 1965 as a backup crew member for
Gemini 5.
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Travis Ludlow broke the world record for the youngest person to fly solo around the world? (5 February)
- ... that in 1917,
flying ace
Otto Jäger was wounded by a propeller? (6 February)
- ... that
Sky Alps is the first airline to operate scheduled flights from
Bolzano Airport since 2015? (21 February)
- ... that a 35-second
Blue Angels sequence in
To Fly! took more than four months to prepare? (13 March)