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- Birth nameArthur Warren Murray
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- Kit
- Arthur Murray was born on December 26, 1918 in Cresson, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Ann Humphreys and Elizabeth Ann Strelic. He died on July 25, 2011 in West, Texas, USA.
- SpousesAnn Humphreys(1970 - July 25, 2011) (his death, 6 children)Elizabeth Ann Strelic (divorced)
- Flew more than 50 combat missions in a P-40 fighter in World War II.
- Requested that his ashes be scattered over the Mojave Desert, where some of his fellow test pilots crashed and died.
- First human to see the curvature of the earth. At the time, he was called America's first space pilot.
- Joined the Army as a cavalry soldier in 1939.
- Pioneer test pilot. Tested the Bell X-1A, X-1B, X-4 and X-5.
- [describing 15 terrifying seconds in a rocket plane racing over 1,400 miles an hour and spinning wildly, supersonically out of control, rising 90,440 feet over the earth in 1954] I begin to feel weightless, and I'm flying so fast my instruments can't keep up - they show what happened two miles ago. I'm climbing so steeply I can't see the ground, and I feel confused. I have a sense of falling, and I want to grab something for support.
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