Tom Sixkiller wrote:
Yes, of course. The first civilian astronaut was Joseph Walker, who flew
the X-15 to an altitude of 347,800 feet on July 19, 1963.

Were the X-15 pilots classified as "astronauts"?

I believe it crossed the internationally accepted "boundary" of space
(100km).




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