|
|
All documents are being offered on a first-come first-serve basis and are sold unframed unless otherwise specified.
This website requires that cookies be enabled in your browser.
|
Whether looking for corporate, birthday or luxury gifts, nothing makes a more perfect and unique gift than an
autographed item for someone special! Imagine the thrill of receiving an autographed item from one's hero or
signed on the anniversary of one's birthday. Click here for our Gift Locator Tool.
|
LOREN ACTON
Born: March 7, 1936 in Lewiston, Montana
Loren W. Acton (Ph.D.)
Payload
Specialist
PERSONAL DATA: Born March 7, 1936, in Lewiston,
Montana. Married. Two children.
EDUCATION: Received a bachelor of science degree
from Montana State University in 1959, and a doctor of philosophy from the
University of Colorado in 1965.
ORGANIZATIONS: American Astronomical Society,
International Astronomical Union, Sigma Chi, Astronomical Society of the
Pacific, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Tau Beta
Pi.
EXPERIENCE: Dr. Acton is the senior staff
scientist with the Space Sciences Laboratory, Lockheed Palo Alto Research
Laboratory, California. As a research scientist, his principle duties included
conducting scientific studies of the Sun and other celestial objects using
advanced space instruments and serving as a co-investigator on one of the
Spacelab 2 solar experiments, the Solar Optical Universal Polarimeter. In 1985,
he was a payload specialist on STS-51F/ Spacelab-2. At mission conclusion, Dr.
Acton had traveled over 2.8 million miles in 126 Earth orbits, logging over 190
hours in space.
SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: STS-51F/Spacelab-2 Challenger (July 29 to August 6, 1985) was launched from
Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and returned to land at Edwards Air Force Base,
California. STS-51F was the first pallet-only Spacelab mission, and the first
mission to operate the Spacelab Instrument Pointing System (IPS). It carried 13
major experiments in astronomy, astrophysics, and life sciences. Mission
duration was 7 days, 22 hours, 45 minutes and 26.
AUGUST 1985
This is the only version available from NASA. Updates
must be sought direct from the above named individual.
|
|
