Grave of Charles Arthur ('Art') Bassett II (1931-1966),NASA astronaut and United States Air Force (USAF) pilot. Bassett entered the USAF when the Korean War broke out in 1950. He trained as a fighter pilot,but was not posted to Korea until 1954,after the war had ended. He then studied electrical engineering (graduating 1960) and trained as a test pilot (graduating 1962). He was selected as part of NASA's Astronaut Group 3 in October 1963. Bassett had been assigned to fly on the Gemini 9 spacecraft,but was killed aged 34 in an aircraft crash while in training. Photographed at Arlington National Cemetery,Virginia,USA | |
Lizenzart: | Lizenzpflichtig |
Credit: | Science Photo Library / Bassett, Peter |
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