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Theodore Cordy Teddy Freeman (February 18 1930 – October 31 1964) was a NASA astronaut and a captain in the United States Air Force. He was killed in the crash of a T-38 jet marking the first fatality among the American astronaut corps.Freeman was born in Haverford Pennsylvania and completed his secondary education in 1948. He attended the University of Delaware at Newark for one year then entered the United States Naval Academy and graduated in 1953 with a Bachelor of Science degree.
