Following his involvement with the X-15 program, Thompson became Chief Engineer and Director of Research Projects at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.\n', '

Born in Crookston, Minnesota, on 4 May 1926, to parents Peter Thompson (1898–1960) and Alma Theresa Thompson (née Evenson; 1898–1977). Thompson began flying with the U.S. Navy as a pilot trainee at age 19. He served with duty in China and Japan during World War II.\n', '

Following six years of active Naval service, Thompson entered the University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering in 1953. He remained in the Naval Reserve during college and continued flying, in Navy aircraft and in crop dusters and forest-spraying aircraft.\n', '

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