Albert Sacco

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Albert Sacco
Albert Sacco
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on Aug 6, 1990
( USML-1 )
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: October 20, 1995
Landing: November 5, 1995
Time in space: 15d 21h 53min
retired on November 5, 1995
Space flights

Albert "Al" Sacco Jr. (born May 3, 1949 in Boston , State of Massachusetts , USA ) is a former American astronaut . Sacco received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Northeastern University in 1973 and a doctorate in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977 .

Sacco then became a member of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute , where he became a professor in 1989. There he also supervised the zeolite crystal growth experiments that flew into space with STS-73 .

Sacco has been a professor at Northeastern University in Boston since 1998 .

STS-50

Sacco was on the backup team for the STS-50 mission of the Columbia space shuttle . This Spacelab mission started on June 25, 1992.

STS-73

On October 20, 1995, Sacco launched into space as a payload specialist on the Columbia space shuttle . On this 16-day Spacelab mission called "United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML) 2", 16 main experiments were carried out in the research disciplines of materials science, combustion science, fluid physics and biotechnology.

Private

Albert Sacco is married and has four children.

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SURNAME Sacco, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sacco, Al (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts, USA