L. Blaine Hammond

American astronaut

In the history of exploration, L. Blaine Hammond is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists L. Blaine Hammond as American astronaut.

L. Blaine Hammond was born at Savannah in 1952. His recorded nationality is United States.

Modern exploration moved to the places the body cannot survive unaided: the deep ocean, the upper atmosphere and orbit, reached by engineering as much as by nerve.

He is recorded as military officer and astronaut.

Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.

L. Blaine Hammond is still active, and the record of the career is not yet closed.

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