Four candidates have been selected for two payload specialist positions. Two of the candidates will be selected for flight in March 1991, and the others will serve as alternates. During the 13-day mission, the payload specialists will conduct more than 30 scientific and technological investigations in materials, fluids and biological processes.
Four candidates have been selected for two payload specialist positions. Two of the candidates will be selected for flight in March 1991, and the others will serve as alternates. During the 13-day mission, the payload specialists will conduct more than 30 scientific and technological investigations in materials, fluids and biological processes.
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Four candidates have been selected for two payload specialist positions. Two of the candidates will be selected for flight in March 1991, and the others will serve as alternates. During the 13-day mission, the payload specialists will conduct more than 30 scientific and technological investigations in materials, fluids and biological processes.
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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.
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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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