United States astronaut badges are the various badges of the United States which are awarded to military and civilian personnel of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the various child
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NASA Civilian Astronaut Wings
The payload specialist badge of Ukrainian astronaut Leonid Kadenyuk
John Glenn in 1960, wearing his Mercury astronaut pin
North American X-15
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The North American X-15 is a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft formerly operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the X-plane series of
United States astronaut badges
…pilots who flew aircraft higher than 50 miles (80 kilometres). Seven USAF and NASA pilots qualified for the astronaut badge by flying the suborbital X-15 rocket spaceplane. American test pilots Michael Melvill and Brian Binnie were each awarded a commercial astronaut badge by the Federal Aviation…
X-15A-3 pulls away from its drop launch plane over Edwards Air Force Base during a mission in the 1960s.
X-15 after igniting rocket engine
Cockpit of an X-15
X-15A-2, with sealed ablative coating, external fuel tanks, and ramjet dummy test