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Major Robert Lawrence Memorial Tribute
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During an Astronauts Memorial Foundation tribute honoring U.S. Air Foce Maj. Robert Lawrence, physicist Herman White, Ph.D., of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, speaks to guests during the ceremony. Selected in 1967 for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory Program, Lawrence was the first African-American astronaut. He lost his life in a training accident 50 years ago. The ceremony took place in the Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineMajor Robert Lawrence Memorial Tribute. NASA/KSC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: KSC-20171208-PH_KLS01_0240.
