SPACE COWBOY

Air ace Joseph A Walker vaults from the cockpit of the X1 with characteristic glee. Walker, who served in World War II, flew three variations of the supersonic Bell X-1 and became the first American to make space flight when the X-15 exceeded 100 kilometres in altitude in 1963. Repeating the feat made him the first person to make multiple space flights and he was also the first test pilot of the Lunar Landing

Research Vehicle used by Apollo 11. 1955