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Peter Hervey Longhurst British Payload Specialist Astronaut. Born 8 March 1943.

Personal: Male. Born in Staines, Middlesex, UK. Royal Navy Bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the Royal Navy Engineering College, Plymouth, 1966. Royal Navy Commander, Royal Navy.

Astronaut Career

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

Later became a farmer in Somerset, England.


Longhurst Chronology

1987 January - STS-71-C (cancelled). Planned shuttle mission for deployment of commercial communications satellites. Cancelled after Challenger disaster.



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