Pilot Joe Walker with the X-1E - GPN-2000-000254.jpg

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Description	English: A photo of the nose section of the X-1E with pilot Joseph Albert "Joe" Walker suited for a flight at the NASA High-Speed Flight Station, Edwards, California. The dice and Little Joe are prominently displayed under the cockpit area. NASA employees and the crew chief of the plane worked long hours preparing a craft for flight. A break from the tedious task was a welcome reprieve at times; hence the private joke between a crew and their pilot evolved. If you know the craps game you've figured it out! (Little Joe is a dice player's slang term for two deuces.) Five years later when Walker reached 354,200 feet in the X-15, that aircraft carried similar artwork - "Little Joe the II." Walker is shown in the photo above wearing an early partial pressure suit. This protected the pilot if cockpit pressure was lost above 50,000 feet.
Date	1958
Source	Armstrong Photo Gallery: Home - info - pic Great Images in NASA: Home - info - pic
Author	NASA

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