James Buchli

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James Buchli
James Buchli
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on January 16, 1978
( 8th NASA Group )
Calls: 4 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		January 24, 1985
Landing of the
last space flight: 		September 18, 1991
Time in space: 20d 10h 24min
retired on September 1992
Space flights

James Frederick Buchli (born June 20, 1945 in New Rockford , North Dakota ) is a retired American astronaut .

education

Buchli received a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 1967 and a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of West Florida in 1975 .

In 1967 Buchli joined the United States Marine Corps . After completing his basic training, he served in the Vietnam War for a year . After his return to the USA he took part in training to become a naval aviator. For the next few years he was stationed in Hawaii , Japan and Thailand , among others . In 1977 he was transferred to the US Test Pilot School in Patuxent River, Maryland .

Astronaut activity

Buchli was selected as a candidate astronaut by NASA in August 1979. At NASA he was a member of the support teams for the space shuttle missions STS-1 and STS-2 and also liaison speaker ( CAPCOM ) during STS-2. From March 1989 to May 1992 he was deputy head of the astronauts office.

STS-10 or STS-41-E

The launch of STS-10 was planned for November 1983, but the flight had to be canceled due to delays in the secret payload. Ken Mattingly, Loren Shriver, Ellison Onizuka, Jim Buchli and the US Air Force payload specialist Gary Payton were nominated as a crew here.For July 1984 this military flight under the designation STS-41-E was put back into the program, but this satellite mission of the The US Department of Defense was also canceled due to problems with the IUS upper level. Ken Mattingly, Loren Shriver, Ellison Onizuka, Jim Buchli and the US Air Force payload specialist Jeffrey Detroye were nominated as a team here. The launch was planned for March 1984 with the space shuttle Challenger.

STS-51-C

Buchli undertook his first space flight on January 24, 1985 as a mission specialist with the space shuttle Discovery . The mission objective of STS-51-C was to deploy a geostationary reconnaissance satellite on behalf of the US Department of Defense .

STS-61-A

Buchli's next mission took place on October 30, 1985 with the space shuttle Challenger . During this mission, which is also known as the D1 mission, the European Spacelab was carried in the hold. This was the first and so far only time that eight astronauts flew into space simultaneously with a spaceship. The US military's GLOMR (Global Low Orbiting Message Relay) satellite was also deployed.

STS-61-H

In February 1985 Buchli was assigned to the mission STS-61-H as a Mission Specialist . The Columbia mission planned for June 1986 was canceled after the Challenger disaster . A commercial communications satellite should have been suspended. The team would have consisted of Michael Coats, John Blaha, Anna Fisher, James Buchli, Robert Springer, the British payload specialist Nigel Wood and the Indonesian payload specialist Pratiwi Sudarmono.

STS-29

On March 13, 1989, Buchli flew into space with the space shuttle Discovery. In addition to carrying out a large number of experiments, the TDRS-4 communications satellite was deployed on this mission . The astronauts also took pictures with a handheld IMAX camera.

STS-48

The last time Buchli flew into space was on September 12, 1991 with the space shuttle Discovery. During this five-day mission, the UARS satellite was deployed to explore the upper atmosphere .

According to NASA

In September 1992, Buchli resigned from NASA and the US Marine Corps and became Manager of Space Station Systems and Operations at Boeing .

Private

James Buchli and his wife Jean have two children.

See also

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personal data
SURNAME Buchli, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchli, James Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH New Rockford , North Dakota