Carl J. Meade
| Carl Meade | |
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| Country: | United States |
| Organization: | NASA |
| selected on | June 4, 1985 ( 11th NASA Group ) |
| Calls: | 3 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
November 16, 1990 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
September 20, 1994 |
| Time in space: | 29d 16h 14min |
| EVA inserts: | 1 |
| EVA total duration: | 6h 51min |
| retired on | February 29, 1996 |
| Space flights | |
Carl Joseph Meade (born November 16, 1950 in Chanute Air Force Base , State of Illinois , USA ) is a retired American astronaut .
Meade received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1973 and a master's degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1975 .
Meade worked as an electrical engineer at Hughes Aircraft . He then joined the United States Air Force , where he was trained as a pilot and test pilot and was also used as such at Edwards Air Force Base . In 1985 he was transferred back to the USAF Test Pilot School as an instructor.
Astronaut activity
In June 1985, after an unsuccessful application for the tenth group of astronauts, NASA selected Meade as a candidate for astronauts with the eleventh group of NASA.
STS-38
Meade started on November 15, 1990 as a mission specialist on the space shuttle Atlantis for his first mission into space . A military spy satellite was deployed as a payload on behalf of the US Department of Defense .
STS-50
During the STS-50 mission, Meade was a mission specialist on the Columbia space shuttle . The mission started on June 25, 1992. The primary payload was the USML-1 microgravity laboratory, a manned Spacelab module. Numerous experiments have been conducted to study the crystal growth of zeolite , surface tension physics, and human physiology.
STS-64
Meade made his third flight in September 1994 as a mission specialist with the space shuttle Discovery . The LITE laser-optical radar system was tested as part of STS-64 . Another task was the deployment and recovery of the astronomical research satellite SPARTAN-201 , a free-flying satellite for researching the solar wind and the solar corona . After eleven days in space, he landed on September 20, 1994 at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
According to NASA
In February 1996, Meade moved from NASA to Lockheed Martin's Lockheed Advanced Development Projects Unit ( Skunk Works ) as assistant project manager for the X-33 . He then went to Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems to work on the Crew Exploration Vehicle project.
Private
Carl Meade is married with one child.
See also
Web links
- Short biography of Carl J. Meade at spacefacts.de
- NASA biography of Carl J. Meade (English; PDF)
- Biography of Carl J. Meade in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
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| SURNAME | Meade, Carl J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meade, Carl Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chanute Air Force Base , Illinois, USA |