Ed White

Edward Higgins White II graduated from West Point in 1952, flew F-86 and F-100 fighters in West Germany, then earned a master's in aeronautical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1959 before becoming a test pilot at Wright-Patterson. Selected in NASA's second astronaut group, the "Next Nine," he was assigned as pilot of Gemini 4 alongside James McDivitt. On June 3, 1965, White became the first American to walk in space. He was then named senior pilot of Apollo 1, the first crewed Apollo mission. On January 27, 1967, White died alongside Virgil "Gus" Grissom and Roger B. Chaffee in…