Test pilot and astronaut Clifton C. Williams Jr. (1932-1967) was a native of Mobile, Mobile County. He was slated to pilot the Apollo mission's Lunar Module that would land on the Moon but was killed in a plane crash in 1967.
Clifton C. Williams Jr.
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