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Albert Hanlin Crews, Jr is a retired astronaut and
Colonel in the United States Air Force.  He was
born on March 3, 1923 in Eldorado, Arkansas. He is
married with three children. 

He graduated from the University of Southwestern
Louisiana in 1950 with a 
Bachelor of science in chemical engineering. He
earned a Masters of Science
in aeronautical engineering from the United States
Air Force Institute of Technology in 1959.

He was selected as a military astronaut designee
in the second group of X-20 Dyna-Soar astronauts
on April 20, 1962 and assigned as a Dynasoar pilot
on September 20, 1962. The Dyna Soar program was
cancelled in 1963. On November 12, 1965 he was
selected as an astronaut in the first group for
the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program. He
transferred to NASA Flight Crew Directorate at the
Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
in June 1969 when the MOL program was cancelled.
He remained a 
pilot for NASA until he retired at age 65.