1932 - 1967
Clifton Williams American Astronaut
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| First Name |
Clifton
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| Last Name |
Williams
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| Birthday |
26th September, 1932
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| Birthplace |
Mobile, Alabama
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| Died |
5th October, 1967
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| Place of Death |
near Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.
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| Zodiac Sign |
Libra
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Naval aviator, test pilot
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| Occupation |
Astronaut
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Clifton Curtis "C.C." Williams Jr. (September 26, 1932 – October 5, 1967) (Major, USMC), was an American naval aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer, major in the United States Marine Corps, and NASA astronaut, who was killed in a plane crash; he never went into space. The crash was caused by a mechanical failure in a NASA T-38 jet trainer, which he was piloting to visit his parents in Mobile, Alabama. The failure caused the flight controls to stop responding, and although he activated the ejection seat, it did not save him. He was the fourth astronaut from NASA's Astronaut Group 3 to have died, the first two (Charles Bassett and Theodore Freeman) having been killed in separate T-38 flights, and the third (Roger B. Chaffee) in the Apollo 1 fire earlier that year. The aircraft crashed in Florida near Tallahassee within an hour of departing Patrick AFB.
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