Spacecraft Named After ��ý��Ƶ Alumnus and 1st African American Astronaut

Major Robert H. Lawrence Jr., a ��ý��Ƶ alumnus and the first African American to be selected as an astronaut, is being remembered with the naming of a space station cargo capsule.

02/06/2020 12:00 AM

Major Robert H. Lawrence Jr., a ��ý��Ƶ alumnus and the first African American to be selected as an astronaut, is being remembered with the naming of a space station cargo capsule set to launch this Sunday.

The 13th , christened as the “S.S. Robert H. Lawrence,” is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on Sunday, February 9.

Major Lawrence was a 1956 chemistry graduate of ��ý��Ƶ and the nation’s first African-American astronaut. In December of 1967, following his appointment to the Manned Orbital Laboratory program, Major Lawrence was killed while training another pilot in a Lockheed F-104 jet at Edwards Air Force Base when the student crash-landed the plane.

Since 1988, ��ý��Ƶ has honored his legacy with the Robert H. Lawrence Endowed Lectureship. The Major Robert H. Lawrence, Jr. Memorial Scholarship at ��ý��Ƶ was established the same year of his death and in 1989 the Lawrence Conference Room was dedicated in ��ý��Ƶ’s Olin Hall, containing the Lawrence portrait by Wm. F. Hardin (’50).

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Spacecraft Named After ������ý��Ƶ Alumnus and 1st African American Astronaut

Major Robert H. Lawrence Jr., a ������ý��Ƶ alumnus and the first African American to be selected as an astronaut, is being remembered with the naming of a space station cargo capsule.

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Spacecraft Named After ��ý��Ƶ Alumnus and 1st African American Astronaut

Major Robert H. Lawrence Jr., a ��ý��Ƶ alumnus and the first African American to be selected as an astronaut, is being remembered with the naming of a space station cargo capsule.