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Elliot See (July 23, 1927 – February 28, 1966) was an American engineer, United States Naval Aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. Selected as part of NASA Astronaut Group 2 in 1962, See was the prime command pilot for what would have been his first space flight, Gemini 9. He was killed in 1966, along with his Gemini 9 crewmate Charles Bassett, when their jet aircraft crashed at the McDonnell Aircraft plant in St. Louis, where they were about to undergo two weeks of space-rendezvous simulator training. This photograph depicts See participating in water-egress training in 1965 as a backup crew member for Gemini 5.Photograph credit: NASA