Holmes
Holmes
Credit - www.spacefacts.de
Christopher John Nicholas Holmes British Payload Specialist Astronaut. Born 10 July 1950.

Personal: Male. Born in London, UK. Civilian Bachelor of Science in physics from the Queen Mary College, London, 1972. Physicist. Selected in 1984 for the British Skynet-Program.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Payload Specialist. Inactive Entered space service: 25 February 1984. Left space service: January 1986.

British National Space Center, London.

Holmes Chronology

1987 January - STS-71-C (cancelled). Assignment: Proposed Backup Crew. Flight: STS-71-C. Planned shuttle mission for deployment of commercial communications satellites. Cancelled after Challenger disaster.

Bibliography and Further Reading
  • Becker, Joachim, http://www.spacefacts.de/, "Space Facts Web Site", . Joachim Becker's outstanding collection of facts and photos of astronauts and cosmonauts. Accessed at: http://www.spacefacts.de/.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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