X-15 Pilots Finally Get Astronaut Wings

Ginnungagap42 writes "NASA has a story about pilots Bill Dana, John McKay and Joe Walker finally receiving their astronauts wings for their work in the X-15 program back in the 1960's. Astronauts wings were awarded to the USAF personnel in the 1960's, but not to the civilian NASA pilots until now. The X-15 program was an important testbed for hypersonic flight. It's nice that all the pilots who flew high and fast are finally being recognized."

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I remember the days of the rotary dial. Forgotten today is the status associated with the numbers in your prefix. Higher numbers took longer to dial, so having low numbers in your prefix (especially for a business) was important, and everyone in a neighborhood would generally have the ame prefix. My prefix, of course, was 599, and it took forever to dial.