邁克爾·詹姆斯·亞當斯 邁克爾詹姆斯亞當斯英語Michael James Adams年月日  年月日是美國飛行員航空工程師美國空軍宇航員 已隱藏部分未翻譯内容歡迎參與翻譯 Maj USAF was an American aviator aeronautical engineer and USAF astronaut He was one of twelve pilots who flew the North American X an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the Air Force and NASA On November   Adams flew X Flight  also known as X Flight  aboard the X one of three planes in the X fleet Flying to an altitude above  miles Adams qualified as an astronaut according to the United States definition of the boundary of space Moments later the craft broke apart killing Adams and destroying the X He was the first American space mission fatality by the American convention