Iven Carl "Kinch" Kincheloe Jr. (July 2, 1928 – July 26, 1958) was an American fighter pilot, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, a flying ace in the Korean War, and depending on the definition of outer space, the first person to have reached space, having performed a suborbital spaceflight on September 7, 1956, in the Bell X-2 rocketplane.
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2 July 1928 Detroit, Michigan
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Died |
26 July 1958 (aged 30) Edwards Air Force Base, California, U.S.
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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