John Yang:
The secret flight was finally announced to the world eight months later, June 1948. He instantly skyrocketed to fame.
Ironically, though, he was passed over for the space program a decade later. NASA required the first astronauts have college degrees. Yeager had never gone to college. Even so, he went on to command fighter squadrons in Germany and Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, and was promoted to brigadier general.
Yeager was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1973, and retired from the Air Force in 1975. In 1979, he gained new international celebrity with the publication of Tom Wolfe's bestselling book "The Right Stuff," later made into a movie. He was portrayed by actor Sam Shepard.
After the Challenger explosion in 1986, he served on the commission that investigated the disaster. He also worked as a consulting test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base in California, and traveled abroad, visiting U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
2012 marked the 65th anniversary of Yeager's supersonic flight, and, at age 89, he reenacted the achievement, flying with a pilot from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.
Afterward, he reflected on the indelible mark the military left on his life.
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