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Personal: Male, Married, Three children. Born in Fayette, Mississippi, USA. US Navy Bachelor of aeronautical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, 1959. US Navy Test pilot. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: USAF MOL Group 1 - 1965, NASA Group 7 - 1969. Inactive Entered space service: 12 November 1965. Left space service: 1 October 1983. Number of Flights: 2.00. Total Time: 8.31 days. Selected in 1965 for MOL space station program. At cancellation of MOL, transferred to NASA as an astronaut. Flew on Space Shuttle approach and landing tests 2 and 4. NASA Administrator 1989 - 1992. Then Vice President of Georgia Tech and Director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute. 1997 - November 2004. Thereafter Chief of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.
Truly Spaceflight Log
Truly Chronology 1974 - MOL 6 (cancelled). Planned date of fourth manned MOL mission at time of the program cancellation. From the beginning of the project, the Navy had demanded that this be an all-Navy crew. 28 June 1977 - Enterprise flight 2. Second manned captive active flight. Enterprise (OV-101)/shuttle carrier aircraft, Edwards (1 hour, 2 minutes) 13 September 1977 - Enterprise flight 5. Second free flight, ALT, tail cone on, Edwards (5 minutes, 28 seconds), Enterprise (OV-101), lake bed Runway 17 12 October 1977 - Enterprise flight 7. Fourth free flight, ALT, first tail cone off, Edwards (2 minutes, 34 seconds), Enterprise (OV-101), lake bed Runway 17 12 November 1981 - STS-2. Second shuttle test flight. Payloads: Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications (OSTA)-1 experiments, Orbiter Experiments (OEX). 14 November 1981 - Landing of STS-2. STS-2 landed at 21:23 GMT. 30 August 1983 - STS-8. First night launch and night landing. Deployed Insat 1B. Payloads: Deployment of INSAT (lndia communica-tion satellite) with Payload Assist Module (PAM)-D, Payload Flight Test Article (PFTA)/ Payload Deployment Retrieval System (PDRS), Continuous Flow Electrophoresis (CFES), biomedical experiments. 250,000 express mail envelopes with special cachet for U.S. Postal Service were carried for a first-day cover. 5 September 1983 - Landing of STS-8. STS-8 landed at 07:40 GMT. Bibliography:
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