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((Infobox astronaut
| name          =James W. Wood
| other_names   =James Wayne Wood
| type          =[[USAF]] [[astronaut]]
| birth_date    =((Birth date|1924|8|9))
| death_date    =((Death date and age|1990|1|1|1924|8|9))
| birth_place   =[[Paragould, Arkansas]], U.S.
| death_place   =[[Melbourne, Florida]], U.S.
| occupation    =[[Test pilot]]
| alma_mater    =[[Air Force Institute of Technology]], B.S. 1954
| rank          =[[File:US-O6 insignia.svg|25px]] [[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]], [[U.S. Air Force|USAF]]
| selection     =[[List of astronauts by selection#1960|1960 Dyna-Soar Group 1]]
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'''James Wayne Wood''' (August 9, 1924 – January 1, 1990), ([[Colonel (United States)|Col]], [[United States Air Force|USAF]]), was an American [[aeronautical engineer]], [[U.S. Air Force|U.S. Air Force officer]], [[test pilot]], and [[astronaut]] in the [[Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar|X-20 Dyna-Soar]] program.

==Early life and education==
Wood was born on August 9, 1924, in [[Paragould, Arkansas]]. He considered [[Pueblo, Colorado]] his home town.<ref name="Burgess">((cite book |last=Burgess |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Burgess (author) |title=Selecting the Mercury Seven: The Search for America's First Astronauts |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media]] |year=2011 |location=[[Chichester]], UK |pages=194–202 |isbn=978-1-4419-8404-3))</ref> Wood earned a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree in [[Aeronautical Engineering]] from the U.S. [[Air Force Institute of Technology]] in 1954. He was married and had three children.

==Test pilot==
[[File:USAF Experimental Flight Test School Class 56D.jpg|thumb|left|[[U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School|USAF Experimental Flight Test School]] Class 56D. Front row: Captains [[Gordon Cooper]], James Wood, Jack Mayo and [[Gus Grissom]].]]
Wood served in the [[U.S. Army Air Corps]] during [[World War II]], and flew 10 [[Aerial warfare|combat missions]]. In the [[Korean War]], he flew more than 100 combat missions.

As a [[U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School|USAF Test Pilot School]] graduate, he was serving as an experimental test pilot at the [[Air Force Test Center#Air Force Flight Test Center|Air Force Flight Test Center]], [[Edwards AFB]], [[California]] when selected for the X-20 Dyna-Soar program in April 1960. However, before his selection, he had been an unsuccessful applicant for [[Mercury Seven|NASA Astronaut Group 1]].<ref name="Burgess"/> Wood was the senior test pilot on the Dyna-Soar project and was slated to be the pilot on its first [[Sub-orbital spaceflight|sub-orbital mission]]. If the program had not been cancelled, the first drop test would have been in July 1964. After the Dyna-Soar program was cancelled on December 10, 1963, he remained with the U.S. Air Force and served as Commander of Test Operations at [[Edwards Air Force Base]] until 1978. He retired from the U.S. Air Force with the rank of [[Colonel (United States)|colonel]]. Wood later was test pilot and [[Chief operating officer|
Director of Operations]], Tracor Flight Systems Inc., in [[Newport Beach, California|Newport Beach]], California.

Wood served as the 1975 president of the [[Society of Experimental Test Pilots]] and was a [[Fellow]] of the organization.<ref name="SETP Presidents">((cite web |title= Past Presidents of SETP |url= https://www.setp.org/setp-personnel/presidents.html |website= The Society of Experimental Test Pilots |access-date= August 22, 2022))</ref>

==Death==
Wood died in [[Melbourne, Florida]], on January 1, 1990, of [[natural causes]], aged 65.

==References==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140805142454/http://astronautix.com/astros/wood.htm Astronautix biography of James W. Wood]
*[http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/wood_james.htm Spacefacts biography of James W. Wood]
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