Thursday NASA 'Day of Remembrance' -- Will it Forget Astronaut Robert Lawrence?

press release HE
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=15973

On this Thursday's memorial service, I hope NASA doesn't restrict
its comments to honoring fatalities in 'the NASA family',
as the press release states -- NASA is representing the entire
US space community in this appropriate event, and that should
include the US Air Force's manned space efforts of the 1960's,
when Major Robert Lawrence (America's first black astronaut-selectee,
whose name was added to the 'Space Mirror' at the Cape in 1997).


Astronauts Memorial Foundation (Florida):
http://www.amfcse.org/honor/lawrence.htm

more Lawrence bio data he
http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/oot...211/bio_9.html
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/..._history/64187
http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astron...nce_robert.htm
http://president.osu.edu/past_pres/k...n_1-21-00.html

My latest information is that NASA
will indeed do the right thing and honor Lawrence
as well as its own astronauts.


"Jim Oberg" wrote in message
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press release HE
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=15973

On this Thursday's memorial service, I hope NASA doesn't restrict
its comments to honoring fatalities in 'the NASA family',
as the press release states -- NASA is representing the entire
US space community in this appropriate event, and that should
include the US Air Force's manned space efforts of the 1960's,
when Major Robert Lawrence (America's first black astronaut-selectee,
whose name was added to the 'Space Mirror' at the Cape in 1997).


Astronauts Memorial Foundation (Florida):
http://www.amfcse.org/honor/lawrence.htm

more Lawrence bio data he
http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/oot...211/bio_9.html
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/..._history/64187
http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astron...nce_robert.htm
http://president.osu.edu/past_pres/k...n_1-21-00.html