Byron Kurt Lichtenberg

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Byron Lichtenberg
Byron Lichtenberg
Country: United States
Organization: WITH
selected on May 18, 1978 (Spacelab) and
September 29, 1989 (Atlas)
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		November 28, 1983
Landing of the
last space flight: 		April 2, 1992
Time in space: 19d 05h 56min
retired on December 1983 and April 1992
Space flights

Byron Kurt Lichtenberg (born February 19, 1948 in Stroudsburg , Pennsylvania , USA ) is an American scientist. As a payload specialist, he took part in two space flights with the space shuttle .

Start of career

Lichtenberg graduated from High School in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania in 1965.

He then became a member of the US Air Force and flew 238 combat missions with F-4 , F-100 and A-10 aircraft in the Vietnam War .

He then studied aerospace engineering at Brown University and graduated successfully with a bachelor's degree in 1969, then studied mechanical engineering and graduated with a master's degree in 1975, and then studied biomedical engineering and completed this degree in 1979 with a doctorate .

Space flights

STS-9

Lichtenberg (right) playing cards during the STS-9 mission

Lichtenberg had his first and longest space mission as a payload specialist on the STS-9 mission from November 28 to December 8, 1983 with the Columbia space shuttle , which included the Spacelab space laboratory for the first time . Under the command of astronaut legend John Young , who became the first person to fly into space for the sixth time on this mission, it was the first space flight with six space travelers. At the same time, this was the first NASA mission in which a non-American, Ulf Merbold , was a member of the crew and also undertook his first space flight with it.

From a scientific point of view, the flight was a complete success, because by carrying the Spacelab more experiments could be carried out successfully than in all the Apollo and Skylab missions combined.

Together with Merbold, Lichtenberg was the first payload specialist to be launched into space.

STS-51-H

STS-51-H was an Atlantis mission that was canceled before the Challenger disaster . The EOM-1 shuttle mission was scheduled for November 1985. In addition to Lichtenberg, Vance Brand , Michael J. Smith, Robert Springer, Owen Garriott , and the second payload specialist Michael Lampton were planned.

STS-61-K

STS-61-K was a Columbia mission that was canceled because of the Challenger disaster . The EOM-1 shuttle mission was scheduled for October 1986. In addition to Lichtenberg, Vance Brand , David Griggs , Robert Stewart , Owen Garriott , Claude Nicollier , Michael Lampton and Robert Stevenson were scheduled.

STS-45

During this mission, the Atlantis was used for a flight into space. Lichtenberg was again one of the payload specialists on this mission.

The mission carried the first Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-1) on two Spacelab pallets in the cargo bay of the shuttle. The load installed in the payload bay consisted of twelve instruments from the USA, France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Japan. Studies have been conducted in the fields of atmospheric chemistry , solar radiation , plasma physics, and ultraviolet astronomy . Other research projects included the Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Experiment (SSBUV) and the Get Away Special Experiment (GAS) by Lichtenberg.

After the flights

Lichtenberg (left) accompanies the physicist Stephen Hawking on a parabolic flight

Lichtenberg is a co-founder of Payload Systems, Inc., which supplies components for the Mir , ISS and Space Shuttle missions .

Lichtenberg is also a co-founder of the Zero Gravity Corporation , which offers parabolic flights. During these flights, weightlessness can be simulated for a short time .

Summary

No mission function Flight date Flight duration
1 STS-9 Payload specialist November 28 - December 8, 1983 10d 07h 47m
2 STS-45 Payload specialist March 24 - April 2, 1992 8d 22h 09m

Private

Lichtenberg is married and has five children as well as two adopted Chinese daughters.

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Commons : Byron K. Lichtenberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Lichtenberg, Byron Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Stroudsburg , Pennsylvania , United States