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Robert James Wood American Payload Specialist Astronaut. Born 26 June 1957.

Personal: Male, Married, Three children. Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, USA. Civilian Bachelor of science in physics from Honors Tutorial College, University of Ohio, 1978. Master of science in physics from MIT, 1980. McDonnell-Douglas engineer.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Payload Specialist. Inactive Entered space service: March 1985. Left space service: January 1986. Commercial Payload Specialist Selection 1 on June 26, 1983. Unsuccessful application for NASA astronaut group 13.

Systems engineer on the Joint Direct Attack Munitions program.

Wood Robert Chronology

1986 July - STS-61-M (cancelled). Planned TDRS/IUS deployment shuttle mission. Cancelled after Challenger disaster.

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

Bibliography:

Becker, Joachim, http://www.spacefacts.de/, "Space Facts Web Site", Web Address when accessed: http://www.spacefacts.de/.

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