List of African-American astronauts
Never traveled into space

List of African-American astronauts

Section Title: Never traveled into space
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Image	Name Birth date	Note	Sources

-	Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. October 2, 1935 †December 8, 1967 United States	First African-American astronaut; selected for astronaut training in 1967 for the MOL program; died in an aircraft accident

-	Livingston L. Holder, Jr. September 29, 1956 United States	USAF astronaut in the Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program

-	Michael E. Belt September 9, 1957 United States	Astronaut, payload specialist from TERRA SCOUT - US Army Project; retired January 12, 1991

-	Yvonne Cagle April 24, 1959 United States	Astronaut

-	Jeanette J. Epps November 2, 1970 United States	Astronaut On January 5, 2016 NASA announced that Epps would become the first African-American space station crew member when she launched on her would-be first spaceflight in May 2018, as a flight engineer on Expedition 56, remaining on board for Expedition 57.

-	Victor J. Glover April 30, 1976 United States	Scheduled to fly on Expedition 62 on USCV-1

-	Jessica Watkins May 14, 1988 United States	Astronaut candidate, NASA Astronaut Group 22

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Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. was an astronaut in the Air Force's Manned Orbital Laboratory (MOL) program.

final_sentence: Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. was an astronaut in the Air Force's Manned Orbital Laboratory (MOL) program.