Major Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr., born October 2, 1935 in Chicago Illinois, was the first black man chosen to be an astronaut. He completed flight training at Malden Air Force Base in Missouri and became a pilot at 21 years old.
He earned a PhD in physical chemistry from Ohio State University in 1965. In June 1967, he completed the US Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in California and the same month selected by the USAF as an astronaut in the Manned Orbital Laboratory.
Unfortunately, he was killed in December 1967 during a plane crash at Edwards AFB, while he was instructing a trainee pilot.
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