Theodore Freeman

Theodore Cordy Freeman ( born February 18, 1930 in Haverford, Pennsylvania, † October 31, 1964, at Ellington Air Force Base, Houston, Texas) was an American astronaut and a captain in the U.S. Navy. He died in a crash of his jet-plane of type T -38 Talon killed.

Freeman finished his secondary education in 1948. Subsequently he attended for one year the University of Delaware in Newark, before enrolling at the academy of the U.S. Navy. He graduated in 1953 from the title of Bachelor of Science. In 1960 he graduated from the University of Michigan as an aeronautical engineer and received the title of Master of Science. Freeman was a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ( American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ) and at the specially established company for testing and test pilot (Society of Experimental Test Pilots ).

Freeman was all training courses, but remained in the Air Force, where he ultimately. Than flight instructor at the purpose-built school for pilots in the Air Force, Edwards Air Force Base served in the Mojave Desert

Primarily, however, he still performed his service as a test pilot and therefore he usually stayed for a long time at the various bases of the Air Force. He reached over 3,300 flight hours - about 2,400 of them on jet aircraft. So Freeman was selected with the 3rd NASA Astronaut Selection Group in October 1963.

On October 31, 1964 Theodore Freeman died T-38 Talon in an accident with his jet aircraft of the type. A goose was bumped against the glass of the cockpit, which burst immediately. The aircraft was located just on the landing approach. The fragments of plexiglass flew into the engines of the aircraft, the abschalteten immediately. Freeman was still pull the lever for the ejection seat in the situation. He has flown so deep, so not in the necessary height so that the parachute would open properly. The violent collision could not survive Freeman.

Freeman is survived by his wife and a daughter. He was the first U.S. astronaut who died in the service.

  • NASA
  • Gemini Program
  • Captain (United States Air Force)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1930
  • Died in 1964
  • Man
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