Test pilots and X-1E aircraft. US test pilots on 2 October 1962 in front of the X-1E supersonic aircraft at NACA's High-Speed Flight Station at Edward

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Test pilots and X-1E aircraft. US test pilots on 2 October 1962 in front of the X-1E supersonic aircraft at NACA's High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base, California (later NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center). From left they are: Neil Armstrong, Joe Walker, Bill Dana, Bruce Peterson, Jack McKay, Milt Thompson, and Stan Butchart. Armstrong, Walker, Dana, McKay and Thompson all flew the X-15. Peterson and Butchart flew the drop planes. Neil Alden Armstrong (1930-2012) was the first person to walk on the Moon (1969). He was a test pilot here from 1955 to 1962, before joining NASA's Astronaut Corps.

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