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Aerospace Primus Club

The Aerospace Primus Club. The most exclusive club on Earth, was started in August 1960 by General Bernard Schriever, of the Air Research and Development Command Command for Air Force Personnel of the command for making outstanding contributions towards the country’s Aerospace Program. Recipients ,with only thirteen charter members. Membership was limited to Air Force personnel who accomplished a feat bigger, better, or higher than anyone else.

Originally named the Aerospace Emeritus Pioneer Awards.

An article about the club was published in the Daytona Beach Morning Journal )

Recipients

 * Colonel l Alvin M Moore for directing Discoverer recovery operations
 * Major Robert Michael White, X-15 pilot who set an altitude record of 136,500 feet
 * Gus Grissom (astronaut)
 * Gordon Cooper (astronaut)
 * James McDivitt (astrpmaut.)
 * William J. Knight (astronaut)
 * Major Edward H White III X-15 pilot(astronaut)
 * Captain Harold E Mitchell Aircraft Commander of the C-119 that recovered the Discoverer XIV from the air.
 * TSgt James Albert Howell for making the first premeditated live ejection from a supersonic (F 106) aircraft, First and only enlisted man with rocket time in flight. Co-holder of the world parachute record from 43,500 feet i