Bachelor of science in aeronautical engineering from Princeton University, 1953; recipient of two Honoris Causa Doctorates; Captain, USN, Ret.; test pilot; unsucessful application for NASA astronaut group 1; he was the third man to walk on the lunar surface; he left NASA on 01.02.1974 to accept a position as Vice President for ATC, Denver, Colorado; 1976 he became Vice President of McDonnell Douglas Corp.; he left this position on 31.03.1996 to serve as Chief of Universal Space Lines; hobbies: Golf, water skiing, automobile racing; he died on complications of inner bleedings he got in a motorcycle accident.