Joseph A. Walker
American - (NASA)
Deceased
Date of Birth: Feb. 20, 1921
Date of Death: June 8, 1966
Joseph Albert Walker was an American World War II pilot, experimental physicist, NASA test pilot, and astronaut. He was one of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15, an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the Air Force and NASA.
X-15 | Flight 77
North American Aviation | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Jan. 17, 1963, 4:59 p.m.
X-15 | Flight 90
North American Aviation | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
July 19, 1963, 6:20 p.m.
X-15 | Flight 91
North American Aviation | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Aug. 22, 1963, 6:05 p.m.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
KAIROS
Flight 2
Space One Launch Pad - Spaceport Kii, JapanSecond flight of the KAIROS launch vehicle. 5 satellites for testing various technologies will be on board: * TATARA-1 * PARUS-T1A * SC-Sat1…
Falcon 9
O3b mPower 7 & 8
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USASeventh and eighth of a constellation of eleven high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by…
Falcon 9
NROL-149
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USASixth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to…
Falcon 9
GPS III SV07 (RRT-1)
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAGPS-III (Global Positioning System) is the first evolution stage of the third generation of the GPS satellites. It consists of the first ten (known a…
Long March 2D
PIESAT-2 09-12
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China4 X-band synthetic-aperture radar Earth observation satellites for the Chinese Earth observation satellite company PIESAT.
