Go4Liftoff - Elliot See

Elliot See

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1927-07-23

Deceased 1966-02-28

Status Lost In Training

Type Government

Agency

Astronaut Biography

Elliot McKay See Jr. was an American engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He was selected for NASA's second group of astronauts in 1962. See was chosen as the prime command pilot for what would have been his first space flight, Gemini 9. He was killed with Charles Bassett, his intended Gemini 9 crewmate, in a 1966 NASA trainer jet crash at the St. Louis, Missouri McDonnell Aircraft plant, where they were to take two weeks of space rendezvous simulator training.