On October 31, 1964 — 45 years ago today — NASA astronaut Theodore Freeman died when his T-38 crashed at Ellington Air Force Base, Texas. He had been selected in October 1963 as one of the third group of NASA astronauts, and was the first astronaut or astronaut-trainee to lose his life.
(Theodore Freeman. NASA image from Wikimedia Commons.)
Freeman’s official astronaut biography is here. You can also read about him at the Astronauts Memorial Foundation.
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