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[i]The first man to break the sound barrier would have made a fine astronaut, a Marshall Space Flight Center veteran of the early space program said during a NASA history talk Sunday. Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager was one of the Air Force's most experienced fighter and test pilots when the first astronauts were chosen in 1957, but couldn't go on to be an astronaut because he didn't have a college degree, said Ed Buckbee, former director of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center and the public affairs officer who supported Dr. Wernher von Braun during the Mercury and Apollo programs. "I think he would have been a premier astronaut," Buckbee said Sunday afternoon during a space history talk sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the UAH Tom Bevill Conference Center and Hotel. "But the qualifications of the time kept him out of that field."[/i]
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