Robert Lawrence
Sep 10, 2020
2 minutes
In June 1967 Major Robert H. Lawrence Jr. was selected as the first African-American astronaut by any national space program. Unfortunately this is a story that doesn’t have a happy ending. Tragedy struck, and Lawrence was never able to make his ascent into space.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, on 2 October 1935,
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