NASA Astronaut Group 7
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NASA Astronaut Group 7 was a group of seven astronauts accepted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on August 14, 1969. It was the last group to be selected during the Project Apollo
Group 7 astronauts. Left to right: Bobko, Fullerton, Hartsfield, Crippen, Peterson, Truly and Overmyer.
The fourteen remaining MOL astronauts in 1968. Back row, left to right: Robert T. Herres, Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr., Robert F. Overmyer, C. Gordon Fullerton, Robert L. Crippen, Donald H. Peterson, Karol J. Bobko and James A. Abrahamson. Front row, left top right: Lachlan Macleay, Richard E. Lawyer, James M. Taylor, Albert H. Crews, Francis G. Neubeck and Richard H. Truly. Absent: Michael J. Adams, John L. Finley and Robert H. Lawrence
The crews for the Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests (ALT). Left to right: Fullerton, Haise, Engle and Truly.
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Robert Henry Lawrence Jr.
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Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. was a United States Air Force officer and the first African-American who was selected to be an astronaut.
NASA Astronaut Group 7
…Fourteen of its seventeen astronauts were still with the program; John L. Finley had returned to the Navy, Michael J. Adams transferred to the X-15, and Robert H. Lawrence died during training. Many had hoped since childhood to travel to space. The program asked NASA if it could use MOL resources, including astronauts…
Lawrence during his Air Force career
Lawrence's name inscribed on the Space Mirror Memorial