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ASTRONAUT DIES IN TRAINER CRASHNov. 1, 1964
HOUSTON, Oct. 31 (AP)—Capt. Theodore C. Freeman, an American astronaut, was killed today when his T‐38 jet trainer crashed.
First reports indicated a goose might have caused the crash. Workers at the crash scene were reported to have found feathers amid the wreckage. Several flights of geese had been observed flying close to the ground at the time of the crash.
The 34‐year‐old Air Force officer had taken off after a thick morning fog lifted. Low‐hanging clouds remained in the area of Ellington Air Force Base where the plane went down at 8:50 A. M.
Witnesses said the craft was 300 to 500 feet high when the canopy left the aircraft. It was not clear whether Captain Freeman had ejected or had been thrown from the plane on impact.
His body was discovered about 100 yards from the wreckage, his parachute partly opened. The plane did not burn.
The craft, a two‐seater owned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was used for proficiency flights by the astronaut team.
Captain Freeman was in contact with Ellington flight control minutes before the crash. A native of Haverford, Pa., he was among the third group of 14 astronauts named Oct. 18, 1963, and began his training at the nearby Manned Spacecraft Center last Feb. 1.
Dr. Samuel C. Puma, of the spacecraft center's Medical Operations Office, pronounced the captain dead at the scene. The plane went down about two miles west of Ellington
He was making a 50‐minute jet proficiency flight, the first of two the astronaut had scheduled today.
Donald K. Slayton, the center's assistant director for flight crew operations, and Dr. Charles A. Berry, the center's medical officer, informed Mrs. Freeman at her home near the space center. She is the former Faith Dudley Clark of Orange, Conn
Other survivors include a daughter, Faith Huntington Freeman, 10, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Freeman, who live near Lewes, Del., where he completed his highschool education in 1948.
Mrs. Freeman's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Clark Jr. of Grassy Hill Road, Orange.
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Captain Freeman attended the University of Delaware for a year and was graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1953 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He elected to serve with the Air Force, and in 1960 received a Master of Science degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Michigan.https://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/01/astronaut-dies-in-trainer-crash.htmlhttps://twitter.com/ron_eisele/status/171909847104557921831 October 1964. Killed in a flying accident near Ellington when his T-38 struck a Snow Goose, Captain Theodore Cordy Freeman USAF, member of the NASA Astronaut Corps. One of 14 pilots selected for the third group of candidates in October 1963.
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