Biographies of Astronaut and Cosmonaut Candidates

Laidley

Richard Allen

USA

 Richard Laidley

Personal data

Birthdate:  26.11.1929
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Selection date:  ??.??.1965
Position:  PLT
Status:  Ret. 04.04.1966
Day of death:  21.12.2015
Place of death:  Tucson, Arizona

Additional information

Lieutenant Colonel , USAF (Ret.) Laidley had a varied career which included earning a bachelor of science degree from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Arizona, becoming a NASA instructor in lunar geology to the Apollo astronauts.
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