Education: Attended the University of Colorado, but did not graduate (was awarded an earned degree of engineering after his space flight).

Spaceflights: Pilot, Mercury-Atlas 7 (1962)

Served as backup pilot for Mercury-Atlas 6 (Friendship 7), and piloted Mercury-Atlas 7 (Aurora 7). An elbow injury from a motorbike accident in Bermuda in 1964 removed him from flight status, and he resigned from NASA in August 1967 to join the U.S. Navy Project Sealab.

Retired from the Navy on July 1, 1969, and later worked as an engineering consultant and as a Fellow at the Institute of Environmental Sciences concentrating on oceanographic and energy research.

Currently with Explorer's Club, Association of Space Explorers.