Roger K. Crouch
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| Country: | United States |
| Organization: | NASA |
| selected on | January 11, 1989 ( IML-1 ) February 1996 (MSL-1) |
| Calls: | 2 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
April 4, 1997 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
July 17, 1997 |
| Time in space: | 19d 15h 48min |
| retired on | July 17, 1997 |
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Roger Keith Crouch (born September 12, 1940 in Jamestown , Tennessee ) is a retired American astronaut .
He received a bachelor's degree in physics from the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute in 1962 and a master's degree in physics from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1968 . In 1971 he received his PhD in physics from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute .
Astronaut activity
Crouch was a group leader and researcher at NASA's Langley Research Center from 1962 to 1985 . There he conducted research on behalf of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 1985 to 1996 he was a senior scientist in the Microgravity Space and Applications Division, where he helped develop five different Spacelab missions and coordinated international cooperation with other space organizations. From 1998 he was a scientist in the Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and from 2000 in the program for the International Space Station .
STS-42
Crouch was Ulf Merbold's substitute on the STS-42 mission . This Spacelab mission of the space shuttle Discovery took place in January 1992.
STS-83
On April 4, 1997, Crouch took off as a payload specialist on the Columbia space shuttle . The payload was the Microgravity Science Laboratory (MSL-1). Due to a problem with one of the shuttle's fuel cells , the mission had to be shortened and the landing took place after just under four days. NASA decided to repeat the mission three months later with the same crew.
STS-94
On July 1, 1997, Columbia started again on the MSL-1 mission, which was prematurely terminated on the first attempt. This time the experiments in the Microgravity Science Laboratory could be carried out successfully. This included, above all, experiments to research the physical properties of supercooled liquid mixtures and the combustion processes on solid and liquid materials as well as the production of pure protein crystals .
According to NASA
In 2005, Crouch left NASA and MIT for good and has been a business consultant and lecturer ever since.
Private
Roger Crouch is married and has three children.
See also
Web links
- Short biography of Roger K. Crouch at spacefacts.de
- NASA biography of Roger K. Crouch (English; PDF)
- Biography of Roger K. Crouch in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
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| SURNAME | Crouch, Roger K. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Crouch, Roger Keith (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jamestown , Tennessee |