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Originally Posted by August
Virgil Grissom?
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Originally Posted by jimbuna
Rgr that:
Virgil Gus Grissom (1926-1967) first flew into space in July 1961, on the second suborbital Mercury mission. It was officially called Mercury-Redstone 4, but the spacecraft was more popularly known as Liberty Bell 7. In March 1965, he piloted the first manned flight for the Gemini program, Gemini 3 (nicknamed the Molly Brown), and orbited Earth three times with co-pilot John Young (1930-). Grissom thus became the first man to fly into space twice.
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Nope
Joseph Albert Walker
X-15 pilot
19 July 63 reached an altitude of 106km
22 Aug 63 reached an altitude of 108 km
Under Air Force rules any flight above 80.5 km qualifies the pilot for Astronaut wings and the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) defines space travel as an altitude exceeding 100km aka the Karman line.