... the next eleven years, Lawrence obtained over 2,500 flight hours, the standing of a senior pilot, and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University in Physical Chemistry. Finally, after completing the Air Force Test Pilot Training School at Edwards Air Force Base in June, 1967, Major Lawrence was selected to become an astronaut in the United States Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory (which would ... ...

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... 29, 1971, Soyuz I spacecraft crash on return to Earth, Jan. 27, 1967 when Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died when a fire sweeps their command module during a ground test at Kennedy Space Center. This would come to suggest the use of unmanned space probes and shuttles. This can at least when there is a tragedy in the future, a fellow human ... ...

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