Question: What member of the Man in Space Soonest program became the seventh American in space?

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Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program: The Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program is a program whereby refugees can enter Canada with support and funding from a private sponsor, as opposed to in a government-sponsored program, where the government would be paying for the refugees.  The program was established in 1978, and in 2013, it had resettled 6,623 refugees.  A 2007 study released by the Canadian government found that refugees who settled in Canada through the private sponsorship program became independent much more quickly than did those sponsored by the government.

Empire Zone: An Empire Zone is an area of up to two non-contiguous miles, in which tax incentives are offered by the state of New York, under the Empire Zones Program .  This program was designed to bring new businesses and jobs to the state.  In 1999, the New York State Economic Development Zones program became the Empire Zones program at the direction of Gov. George Pataki.  Today there are 82 Empire Zones in New York, and 9,800 certified businesses operating within them .

Joseph A. Walker: Joseph Albert "Joe" Walker (February 20, 1921 – June 8, 1966) flew the world's first two spaceplane flights in 1963, thereby becoming the United States' seventh man in space.  Walker was a Captain in the United States Air Force, an American World War II pilot, an experimental physicist, a NASA test pilot, and a member of the U.S. Air Force Man In Space Soonest spaceflight program.  His two X-15 experimental rocket aircraft flights in 1963 that exceeded the Kármán line – the altitude of 100 km , generally considered to mark the threshold of outer space – qualified him as an astronaut under the rules of the U.S. Air Force and the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI).

Man in Space Soonest: Man In Space Soonest (MISS) was a United States Air Force (USAF) program to put a man into outer space before the Soviet Union.  The program was cancelled on August 1, 1958, and was replaced by NASA's Project Mercury.  Only two men from the program would actually reach outer space.  The first, Joseph A. Walker, did so twice in two X-15 rocket plane tests in 1963.  Another, Neil Armstrong, became a NASA astronaut in 1962 and became the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969.

McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology: The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology started in 1963 as the Centre for Culture and Technology, initially a card pinned to the door of Marshall McLuhan's office in the English Department at the University of Toronto.  It then had no organized program for research or teaching, but gained in prestige from the worldwide popularity of "Understanding Media" (1964) and grew in McLuhan's last decade in Toronto, assisted by Derrick de Kerckhove and McLuhan's son Eric, who became a director of the McLuhan Program International.  In 1994, the McLuhan Program became a part of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information.  The program's curriculum is based on the works of Marshall McLuhan and other media theorists.  In 2009, the Faculty of Information launched the Coach House Institute (CHI) as a clearly defined research unit under which the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology now operates.  In 2016 under Interim Director, Prof Seamus Ross, the Institute receive approval for its renaming as the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology in recognition of Marshall McLuhan intellectual contributions.  The McLuhan Program is now subsumed under this Centre.

Manufacturing in Mexico: Manufacturing in Mexico grew rapidly in the late 1960s with the end of the US farm labor agreement known as the bracero program.  This sent many unskilled farm laborers back into the Northern border region with no source of income.  As a result, the US and Mexican governments agreed to The Border Industrialization Program, which permitted US companies to assemble product in Mexico using raw materials and components from the US with reduced duties.  The Border Industrialization Program became known popularly as The Maquiladora Program or shortened to The Maquila Program.

Free Breakfast for Children: The Free Breakfast for School Children Program was a community service program run by the Black Panther Party as an early manifestation of the social mission envisioned by founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale along with their founding of the Oakland Community School, which provided high-level education to 150 children from impoverished urban neighborhoods.  Inspired by contemporary research about the essential role of breakfast for optimal schooling, the Panthers would cook and serve food to the poor inner city youth of the area.  Initiated in January 1969 at St. Augustine's Church in Oakland, California, the program became so popular that by the end of the year, the Panthers set up kitchens in cities across the US, feeding over 10,000 children every day before they went to school.

PAUP*: PAUP* (Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony *and other methods) is a computational phylogenetics program for inferring evolutionary trees (phylogenies), written by David L. Swofford.  Originally, as the name implies, PAUP only implemented parsimony, but from version 4.0 (when the program became known as PAUP*) it also supports distance matrix and likelihood methods. Version 3.0 ran on Macintosh computers and supported a rich, user-friendly graphical interface.  Together with the program MacClade, with which it shares the NEXUS data format, PAUP* was the phylogenetic software of choice for many phylogenetists.  Version 4.0 added support for Windows (graphical shell and command line) and Unix (command line only) platforms.  However, the graphical user interface for the Macintosh version requires Classic, which is no longer supported by Mac OS X 10.5 and later.  There is a command line version of PAUP* for Intel-based Macs.  PAUP* is also available as a plugin for Geneious.

Operation Wetback: Operation Wetback was an immigration law enforcement initiative created by Joseph Swing, the Director of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), in cooperation with the Mexican government.  The program was implemented in May 1954 by U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell and utilized special tactics to deal with illegal border crossings into the United States by Mexican nationals.  The program became a contentious issue in Mexico–United States relations, even though it originated from a request by the Mexican government to stop the illegal entry of Mexican laborers into the United States.  Legal entry of Mexican workers for seasonal labor was at the time controlled by the Bracero program, established during World War II by an agreement between the U.S. and Mexican governments.  Operation Wetback was primarily a response to pressure from a broad coalition of farmers and business interests concerned with the effects of Mexican immigrants living in the United States without legal permission.  After implementation, Operation Wetback gave rise to arrests and deportations by the U.S. Border Patrol that were civil rights violations, which resulted in several hundred United States citizens being illegally deported without being given a chance to prove their citizenship.

This American Life: This American Life (TAL) is an American weekly hour-long radio program produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media and hosted by Ira Glass.  It is broadcast on numerous public radio stations in the United States and internationally, and is also available as a free weekly podcast.  Primarily a journalistic non-fiction program, it has also featured essays, memoirs, field recordings, short fiction, and found footage.  The first episode aired on November 17, 1995, under the show's original title, Your Radio Playhouse.  The series was distributed by Public Radio International until June 2014, when the program became self-distributed with Public Radio Exchange delivering new episodes to public radio stations.

Supporting paragraphs: Man in Space Soonest Joseph A. Walker
Answer: Joseph A. Walker