Editing Man in Space Soonest (section)

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'''Man In Space Soonest''' ('''MISS''') was a [[United States Air Force]] (USAF) program to put a [[astronaut|man]] into [[outer space]] before the [[Soviet Union]]. The program was cancelled on August 1, 1958, and was replaced by [[NASA]]'s [[Project Mercury]]. Only two men from the program would actually reach outer space. The first, [[Joseph A. Walker]], did so two or three times (depending on the definition of the [[space border]]) in [[X-15]] rocket plane tests in 1963. The other, [[Neil Armstrong]], became a [[NASA Astronaut Corps|NASA astronaut]] in 1962, flew on [[Gemini 8]] in 1966, and in 1969 on [[Apollo 11]] becoming the first person to walk on the [[Moon]].