Eight individuals and organizations, including The Boeing Co. and an Apollo astronaut, will be inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame in November, the San Diego Air & Space Museum announced Monday.
The inductees for the Nov. 17 ceremony at the museum are:
— The Boeing Co., the maker of passenger and military aircraft that’s celebrating its centennial;
— Al Worden, the command module pilot for Apollo 15 who conducted the first space walk in deep space;
— the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association trade organization;
— U.S. Coast Guard aviation, which is also celebrating its 100th anniversary;
— Dale Myers, a leader of the U.S. space program at NASA in the 1970s who oversaw later Apollo missions and the development of Skylab and the space shuttle;
— the “non-skeds,” former World War II pilots who operated non- scheduled airlines in the post-war years;
— the nonprofit ORBIS International Flying Eye Hospital, which operates a DC-10 that includes a teaching facility and ophthalmic surgical center; and
— America’s Aviation Family of Excellence: The Maloneys and Hintons, Warbird and Air Racing Legends, who preserve old aircraft, some the last of their type.
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