Jon Andrew McBride, is a retired American naval officer.
Over the course of his career with the United States Navy, McBride served as an aviator, a fighter pilot, a test pilot, and an aeronautical engineer. He had achieved the rank of captain when he retired in 1989.
McBride was also an astronaut with NASA, a role in which he piloted STS-41-G and would have been commander of STS-61-E but it was cancelled due to the Challenger disaster. If the mission had not been postponed in the wake of the Challenger accident.