McDivitt, James Alton (1929–)
American astronaut who served as command pilot of Gemini
4 and commander of Apollo 9. A career
Air Force officer, retiring as a brigadier general, McDivitt was chosen
as a NASA astronaut in the second group selected, in 1962. After his two
spaceflights, he went on to manage the Apollo Spacecraft Program at the
Johnson Space Center from September 1969 to August 1972. He then resigned
from NASA and the Air Force and took on a variety of management positions
in business, including senior vice president of Government and International
Operations at Rockwell International.
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