X-15
Biographies
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John V. Becker was born in Albany, New York, in 1913. He earned a
Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical Engineering and a Master of
Science degree from New York State University. He
joined the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory of the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, later NASA Langley) as a research
engineer in 1936.
He was appointed head of the 16-ft. Wind Tunnel Branch (1943),
chief of the Compressibility Research Division (1947), and chief of
the Aero-Physics Research Division (1958). Becker was associated not only
with the X-15 program, but also with several other NACA and NASA programs,
including the X-1 and Dyna-Soar programs.
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