Former Shuttle Commander Overmyer killed in plane crash.
ROBERT F. OVERMYER, commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger on the third Spacelab mission in 1985, was killed Friday in a flight test accident near Duluth, Minn. The 60-year-old retired Marine colonel was testing a VK-30 prototype built by Cirrus Design Corp. when the aircraft crashed near the...
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