Donn Eisele

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Donn Eisele
Donn Eisele
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on October 17, 1963
(3rd NASA Group)
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: October 11, 1968
Landing: October 22, 1968
Time in space: 10d 20h 08min
EVA inserts: No
retired on June 1972
Space flights

Donn Fulton Eisele (born June 23, 1930 in Columbus , Ohio , USA , † December 2, 1987 in Tokyo , Japan ) was an American astronaut who took part in the first manned space flight as part of the Apollo program .

Life

Eisele was first a test pilot and got his bachelor's degree in 1952 and his master's degree in 1960 and was selected by NASA in 1963 with the third group of astronauts . On October 11, 1968, he took off into space with Walter Schirra and Walter Cunningham with a Saturn 1B rocket. Eisele was the pilot of the mission aimed at testing the Apollo spacecraft in space. After a flight of 260 hours and 46 minutes, Apollo 7 landed safely in the Atlantic on October 22nd. He was still on the Apollo 10 backup team before leaving NASA in 1972.

Eisele died of a heart attack on December 2, 1987 while on a business trip in Japan. He left behind his wife Susan and their two children and four children from a previous marriage.

Special features and records

Works

  • Francis French (Ed.): Apollo Pilot: The Memoir of Astronaut Donn Eisele. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 2016, ISBN 978-0-8032-6283-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Eisele, Thursday
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eisele, Donn F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Columbus (Ohio)
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1987
Place of death Tokyo , Japan