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James Wayne Wood was an astronaut in the X-20
Dyna-Soar program. He was
born in Paragould, Arkansas on August 9, 1924. He
was married and had three children. He died on
January 1, 1990 of natural causes.

Colonel Wood earned a Bachelor of science degree
in aeronautical 
engineering from the Air Force Institue of
Technology in 1956. He was
serving as an experimental test pilot at the Air
Force Flight Test Center,
Edwards AFB, California when selected for the X-20
Dyna-Soar program.

Colonel Wood was slated to be the first astronaut
to pilot the Dyna-Soar
on its first sub-orbital mission. He was the
senior test pilot on 
the Dyna-Soar project. If the program had not been
cancelled, the first
flight would have taken place in July, 1966.

After the Dyna-Soar program was cancelled in
December 1963, he remained with the U.S. Air Force
and served as Commander of Test Operations at
Edwards Air Force Base. He retired from the U.S.
Air Force with the rank of Colonel.

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