Conference 7.286::space

649.0. "NASA selects microgravity mission payload specialist candidates" by 4347::GRIFFIN (Dave Griffin) Wed Aug 08 1990 20:28

From: [email protected] (Peter E. Yee)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

Michael Braukus
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                     August 6, 1990
(Phone:  202/453-1549)

Mark Hess
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
(Phone:  202/453-4164)


RELEASE:  90-108

NASA SELECTS MICROGRAVITY MISSION PAYLOAD SPECIALIST CANDIDATES


     NASA today announced the selection of four candidates for 
two payload specialist positions for Space Shuttle STS-53 mission 
scheduled to carry the U. S. Microgravity Laboratory - 1 (USML-1) 
in March 1992.

     Selected for mission training were:  Lawrence J. DeLucas, 
O.D., Ph.D.; Joseph Prahl, Ph.D., Albert Sacco, Jr., Ph.D. and 
Eugene H. Trinh, Ph.D.  Two of the candidates will be selected 
for flight in March 1991, and the others will serve as 
alternates.

     DeLucas, 40, earned a doctorate in optometry in 1981 and a 
Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1982 from the University of Alabama at 
Birmingham.  He holds several positions at the University of 
Alabama at Birmingham including:  Associate Director, Center for 
Macromolecular Crystallography; Professor, Department of 
Optometry; and Adjunct Professor, Laboratory of Medical 
Genetics.  He resides in Birmingham.

     Prahl earned a Ph.D. in engineering from Harvard University 
in 1968.  The 47-year-old Prahl is a professor of engineering at 
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland.  He resides in East 
Cleveland.

     Sacco, 41, earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977.  He is a professor 
and head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Worcester 
Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass.  He resides in Holden, 
Mass.

     Trinh, of Culver City, Calif., earned a Ph.D. degree in 
applied physics from Yale in 1978.  He is a scientist at the Jet 
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.  The 40-year-old Trinh 
was previously an alternate payload specialist for the Spacelab 3 
mission.

     During the 13-day USML-1 mission, the payload specialists 
will conduct more than 30 scientific and technological 
investigations in materials, fluids and biological processes in 
the spacelab environment.

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    Did I catch that mission length correctly?
    
    13 days?
    ==
    
    I thought the Shuttle was good for about 7-9 days max.
    
    					-**Ted**-
    

    The Columbia has been modified to be able to stay up slightly longer.
    
    These long-duration missions will all be on Columbia.  This includes
    the Astro-1 which is due to be launched soon.  I think it is due to
    stay up for 10 or 11 days.
    
    Tony