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Robert Aitkin Rushworth

Born: 9 October 1924, Madison, Maine, United States

Nationality: American

Died: 17 March 1993 (Natural causes)

Group: Man In Space Soonest (25 June 1958)

Group2: X-15 Pilots 2 (October 1958)

Status: Deceased

 

USAF (Non-FAI) Flights:
1X-15 Flight #8727 June 196310 minutes, 28 seconds

 

Non-Qualifying Flights with Significance:
X-15 Flight #25 4 November 1960 8 minutes, 46 seconds
X-15 Flight #27 17 November 1960 8 minutes, 58 seconds
X-15 Flight #42 4 October 1961 8 minutes, 31 seconds
X-15 Flight #53 8 May 1962 8 minutes, 50 seconds
X-15 Flight #54 22 May 1962 9 minutes, 16 seconds
X-15 Flight #66 8 August 1962 7 minutes, 43 seconds
X-15 Flight #68 20 August 1962 1961 8 minutes, 38 seconds
X-15 Flight #69 29 August 1962 8 minutes, 47 seconds
X-15 Flight #71 4 October 1962 9 minutes, 50 seconds
X-15 Flight #73 23 October 1962 9 minutes, 46 seconds
X-15 Flight #78 11 April 1963 8 minutes, 57 seconds
X-15 Flight #82 414 May 1963 7 minutes, 33 seconds
X-15 Flight #85 18 June 1963 9 minutes, 50 seconds
X-15 Flight #89 18 July 1963 10 minutes, 28 seconds
X-15 Flight #94 7 November 1963 8 minutes, 52 seconds
X-15 Flight #97 5 December 1963 9 minutes, 34 seconds
X-15 Flight #100 28 January 1964 10 minutes, 26 seconds
X-15 Flight #103 27 March 1964 9 minutes, 52 seconds
X-15 Flight #105 29 April 1964 9 minutes, 35 seconds
X-15 Flight #109 25 June 1964 8 minutes, 55 seconds
X-15 Flight #114 14 August 1964 12 minutes, 6 seconds
X-15 Flight #118 29 September 1964 9 minutes, 51 seconds
X-15 Flight #124 22 December 1964 7 minutes, 50 seconds
X-15 Flight #127 17 February 1965 9 minutes, 20 seconds
X-15 Flight #129 26 March 1965 11 minutes, 24 seconds
X-15 Flight #140 20 July 1965 10 minutes, 34 seconds
X-15 Flight #141 3 August 1965 9 minutes, 32 seconds
X-15 Flight #145 26 August 1965 10 minutes, 28 seconds
X-15 Flight #147 9 September 1965 11 minutes, 10 seconds
X-15 Flight #149 22 September 1965 10 minutes, 54 seconds
X-15 Flight #155 3 November 1965 5 minutes, 2 seconds
X-15 Flight #158 18 May 1966 8 minutes, 57 seconds
X-15 Flight #159 1 July 1966 4 minutes, 29 seconds

Education
  BS (Mechanical Engineering), University of Maine, 1951
  MS (Aeronautical Engineering), Air Force Institute of Technology, 1954

Making 34 of the 199 X-15 flights, Rushworth made more flights than any other X-15 pilot.

 

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