Elliot Lake
Elliot Lake | |
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Country: | United States |
Organization: | NASA |
selected on | September 17, 1962 ( 2nd NASA Group ) |
retired on | February 28, 1966 Death in plane crash |
Elliot McKay See (born July 23, 1927 in Dallas , Texas , † February 28, 1966 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an American astronaut of the Gemini program . He died in a plane crash before making his first space flight with Gemini 9 .
Start of career
Elliot See studied at the Academy of the American Merchant Navy and at the University of California in Los Angeles . From 1949 he worked for the General Electric Company, among other things as a test pilot. In 1953 he went to the Navy as a pilot until he returned to General Electric in 1956, where he flew the types Starfighter and Northrop T-38 , among others .
NASA
See applied to NASA and was introduced to the public on September 17, 1962 as a member of the second astronaut group. See was one of the two civilians in the group of nine, the other was Neil Armstrong .
See received his first assignment for a space flight on February 8, 1965, when he was assigned as a reserve pilot for the Gemini 5 mission in August 1965. On November 8, 1965, he was then nominated as commander of the Gemini 9 mission .
During the flights of Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 in December 1965, he served as a liaison officer ( Capcom ) from the flight control center in Houston .
On February 28, 1966, the main and reserve crews of Gemini 9 flew in two two-seat T-38 Talons to St. Louis to McDonnell , the manufacturer of the Gemini spaceships. See was piloting one plane and had Charles Bassett as co-pilot with him. In poor visibility, See missed the runway , grazed a building and crashed. See and Bassett died instantly.
Private
See left a wife and three children. His name is also listed on the metal plate of the Fallen Astronaut , the only work of art on the moon.
See also
Web links
- NASA: Biography of Elliot M. See, Jr. (English)
- spacefacts.de: Short biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Astronaut groups 1 and 2 . NASA website. Retrieved August 27, 2012.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | See, Elliot |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | See, Elliot McKay |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut of the Gemini program |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1927 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dallas , Texas |
DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1966 |
Place of death | St. Louis , Missouri |