Edward Galen Givens, Jr. (1930-1967)

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Edward Galen Givens, Jr. (05.01.1930-06.06.1967)

Edward Galen Givens, Jr. został wysekcjonowany w ramach NASA grupa 5 (1966).
Wcześniej złożył wniosek o przyjęcie do grupy 1 astronautów NASA.

06.06.1967 major Air Force Edward Givens, Jr. w wieku 37. lat zginął w wypadku samochodowym w Pearland w pobliżu Houston,
jadąc swoim VW Beetle.
Był w załodze pomocniczej dla  misji Apollo 1 i Apollo 7.
Oprócz niego tylko jeden astronauta z jego grupy nigdy nie poleciał w kosmos.
Obecnie z tej grupy żyje 5 astronautów.

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/givens_edward.pdf

http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/givens_edward.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/g/givens.html
https://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/g/givens-e.php
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_ast/givens_edward.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Givens
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Givens

http://www.drugfreereading.com/starship/seh/givens.htm
https://www.usna.edu/Notables/astronauts/1952givens.php
http://www.collectspace.com/collection/autographs-givens.html

Reflecting on Ed Givens' automobile accident
http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum38/HTML/000069.html

Astronaut Killed in an Auto Crash
June 7, 1967

PEARLAND, Tex., June 6 (UPI)--One of the nation's newest astronauts, Maj. Edward G. Givens Jr., of the United States Air Force, was killed today when he missed a sharp left-hand curve in this little town near the manned spacecraft center and crashed his car off the road. [...]

https://www.nytimes.com/1967/06/07/archives/astronaut-killed-in-an-auto-crash.html

The inescapable irony of Ed Givens’s life is that he died in a car crash. An accomplished and highly motivated test pilot, he had scorched a path across the skies in some of the hottest jets around and then, at the age of thirty-six, had become one of his nation’s astronauts. The person responsible for assigning crews to missions back then was Mercury astronaut Deke Slayton. In his memoirs, released posthumously, he revealed to coauthor Michael Cassutt that “Ed would have been one of the first guys from his group, the April 1966 astronauts, to be on a crew as a command module pilot.” (...)

A Lonely stretch of Road Yet, had he not died behind the wheel of his Volkswagen sedan one treacherous, rain-swept night in June 1967, Ed Givens would almost certainly have become forever famous as one of the handful of men who flew to, and possibly landed on, the moon.

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/edited_volume/chapter/1767227/pdf

Group Five included 19 pilots because, at the time of selection, the program planners envisioned the need for an increasingly large number of new astronauts. (...)

James Irwin, who recently retired from NASA, Charles Duke, and Edward Givens, of the Air Force, were the Naval Academy's graduates on this team.  Too, the Air Force's Don Lind was a former naval aviator, as was civilian Vance D . Brand.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2021/december/apollo-12-moon-landing
https://twitter.com/ron_eisele/status/1798424082935140435

6 June 1967. Death of Major Edward Galen "Ed" Givens Jr, (b.5 January 1930). USAF officer fighter pilot and NASA astronaut. He died in an automobile accident before being assigned to a prime or backup spaceflight crew.