Michael James Adams was an American aviator and USAF astronaut.
Adams’ seventh X-15 flight, flight 3-65-97, took place on 15 November 1967 in the number Three aircraft. At 10:30 AM on 15 November, the X-15-3 dropped away from underneath the wing of an NB-52B at 45,000 feet over Delamar Dry Lake.
While in powered flight, an electrical disturbance distracted Adams and slightly degraded the control of the aircraft; having adequate backup controls, Adams continued on. At 10:33 he reached a peak altitude of 266,000 feet. In the NASA 1 control room, mission controller Pete Knight, a former x-15 pilot, monitored the mission with a team of engineers.
In 1991, Adams’ name was added to the Space Mirror Memorial at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On June 8, 2004 a memorial monument to Adams was erected near the crash site, northwest of Randsburg, California.
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