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Robert Wood - NASA Astronaut Killed by Drunk Driver - Autographed Commemorative Postal Cover

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Robert Wood autographed commemorative postal cover.

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American physicist payload specialist astronaut, 1985-1986. A former payload specialist Robert J. Wood died in a car accident with a drunk driver on February 19. Though he never flew in space, as an engineer with the McDonnell Douglas Aeronautics Company (later Boeing), Wood was chosen as the second industry payload specialist in March 1985 and served as backup to payload specialist Charles Walker on STS-61B.

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Robert Wood - NASA Astronaut Killed by Drunk Driver - Autographed Commemorative Postal Cover

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