Fred Weldon Leslie

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Fred Leslie
Fred Leslie
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on June 20, 1994
( USML-2 )
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: October 20, 1995
Landing: November 5, 1995
Time in space: 15d 21h 43min
retired on November 5, 1995
Space flights

Fred Weldon Leslie (born December 19, 1951 in Ancón , Panama , then the Panama Canal Zone ) is a former American astronaut .

education

Leslie received a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1974 and a masters degree in 1977 and a doctorate in meteorology with a minor in fluid dynamics from the University of Oklahoma in 1979 . Leslie also holds a commercial pilot license .

Scientific activity

In 1979, Leslie worked in research at Purdue University and in 1980 was a visiting researcher at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) for the Universities Space Research Association . Leslie began his work for NASA as a scientist in the Space Science Laboratory at MSFC. Since 1983 he worked on the Geophysical Fluid Flow Cell Experiment, which flew into space with the Spacelab mission STS-51-B and was also part of the United States Microgravity Laboratory-2 payload (USML-2). He also worked on the Neutral Bueyancy Simulator and became Head of the Fluid Dynamics Department in 1987. He also coordinated more than 40 national and Japanese experiments for the Spacelab STS-40 mission .

STS-73

On October 20, 1995, Leslie started as a payload specialist on the Columbia space shuttle . On this 16-day Spacelab mission called “United States Microgravity Laboratory 2”, 16 main experiments were carried out in the research disciplines of materials, combustion, fluid physics and biotechnology.

Leslie then further evaluated the results of this mission at the MSFC.

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personal data
SURNAME Leslie, Fred Weldon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Ancón , Panama