Astronaut/cosmonaut responsible for overall mission success, safety of crew and spacecraft, and maneuvering.
1
Buccari smiled, taking the command pilot's rudeness as a good sign.
2
The commanding officer of the fighter group, a full colonel and command pilot, believed that UFO's were real.
3
Only the command pilot had remained on board and he was in the final process of unbelting when Kassad shot him.
4
He was command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission and backup command pilot for the Gemini 11 mission, both in 1966.
5
But RAF Fighter Command pilot Ray Holmes, whose Hurricane's eight guns had just run out of ammo, had other ideas.