Adams, Michael James

Michael James Adams (May 5, 1930 - November 15, 1967) is an American pilot who died during a suborbital space flight . Posthumously enrolled in the US astronaut lists.

Michael James Adams
English Michael james adams
Date of Birth	May 5, 1930 ( 1930-05-05 )
Place of Birth
Date of death	November 15, 1967 ( 1967-11-15 ) (37 years old)
Place of death
Affiliation	USA
Type of army	Air force
Years of service	1950-1967
Rank	major
Battles / wars	Korean war
Awards and prizes

Michael James Adams was born in 1930 in Sacramento (California) . In 1950, he was enlisted in the US Air Force, participated in the Korean War as a fighter-bomber pilot, and was awarded several awards.

After the war, Adams decided to graduate, and in 1958 received a bachelor's degree in aviation technology from the University of Oklahoma. Then he studied for 18 months at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and in 1962 he entered the school of test pilots at Edwards Air Base , which he graduated with honors in December 1963. In 1964, he took part in a five-month test program for the lunar module simulator, designed to develop the skills of landing astronauts in the lunar module on the moon. In November 1965, he became an astronaut in the manned orbital laboratory program, but from July 1966 he switched to the North American X-15 rocket plan test program. October 6, 1966 he made his first flight on a rocket plane, and during the 7th flight, November 15, 1967, the rocket plane got into a hypersonic corkscrew and crashed with the pilot. He was credited posthumously to the number of astronauts. His name is carved on the "space mirror" of the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral.