James P. Bagian

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James Bagian
James Bagian
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on May 19, 1980
(9th NASA Group)
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		March 13, 1989
Landing of the
last space flight: 		June 14, 1991
Time in space: 14d 1h 52min
retired on August 1995
Space flights

James Philipp "Jim" Bagian (born February 22, 1952 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA ) is a former astronaut for the US space agency NASA .

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Bagian is a descendant of Armenian immigrants. He graduated from Central High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1969 and enrolled at Drexel University to study mechanical engineering , from which he graduated in 1973 with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. In 1977 he received his doctorate in medicine from Thomas Jefferson University .

From 1973 Bagian worked as a process engineer for the company 3M in Bristol (Pennsylvania). Between 1976 and 1978 he worked as a mechanical engineer at the US Naval Air Test Center in Patuxent River, Maryland while doing research for his doctoral thesis.

After completing his doctorate, Bagian worked as a surgeon at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania. In 1978, he came as a flight surgeon for the Johnson Space Center , while at the same time at the USAF Flight Surgeons School and USAF School of Aerospace Medicine in San Antonio ( Texas researcher). During an internship as an anesthetist at the University of Pennsylvania , news reached him that he had been accepted by NASA as an astronaut.

Bagian lives in Philadelphia, is married with four children. Bagian is a Colonel in the US Air Force Reserve and is currently the director of the National Center for Patient Safety. He was trained as a parachutist by the Air Force and has a private pilot license with over 1,500 hours of flight time on jets , propeller planes and gliders . He is a member of the Aerospace Medical Association , the College of Emergency Physicians, and the American Association of Mechanical Engineers.

NASA activities

Bagian is testing an IMAX camera prior to flight STS-29 .

selection

Bagian was introduced by NASA on May 19, 1980 for the 9th Astronaut Training Group. He was part of the preparatory staff and the emergency medical team for the first six flights of the space shuttle . Six years later, in 1986, he was a member of the investigation team that investigated the crash of the space shuttle Challenger ( STS-51-L ). Bagian was then responsible for the development and introduction of the pressure suit, which was to be used by shuttle astronauts for emergency exits. In the course of his work for NASA, he has published numerous scientific publications on the subjects of human influence, environmental and space medicine.

STS-61-I

STS-61-I was a Challenger mission that was canceled after the Challenger disaster. This shuttle mission was scheduled for September 27, 1986. The crew were Donald Williams , Michael Smith (died in the Challenger disaster), James Bagian, Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar , Manley Lanier Carter, as well as the payload specialist Nagapathi Bhat (India) and a US journalist.

STS-71-E

The start of the Atlantis STS-71-E mission was planned for April 1987, but was canceled due to the Challenger disaster. In addition to Bagian, crew members for this SLS-1 mission were Vance Brand , David Griggs , John Fabian , Rhea Seddon , Francis Gaffney and Robert Phillips .

STS-29

Bagian was a mission specialist on the crew of the Discovery flight STS-29 , which took off on March 13, 1989 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida . During the five-day flight, the crew launched a communications satellite. Bagian studied the effects of space sickness during the mission . He was the first person to treat space sickness with an intramuscular injection of the preparation promethazine . The treatment has now been established as NASA's standard treatment for space sickness.

STS-40

STS-40 , which took off from Kennedy Space Center on June 5, 1991, was its second flight. He worked in the Spacelab (SLS-1). The nine-day mission examined how the heart , blood vessels , lungs , kidneys and the hormone-releasing glands adapt to microgravity , as well as the changes in muscles , bones and cell tissue during the stay in space.

Overview

No. mission function Flight date Flight duration
1 STS-29 Mission specialist March 13 - March 18, 1989 4d 23h 38m
2 STS-40 Mission specialist June 5 - June 14, 1991 9d 2h 14m

Awards

  • Jefferson University Orthopedics Award (1977)
  • Graduated with Honors from the USAF Flight Surgeons School (1979)
  • Komarov Diploma of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (1989)
  • Sikorsky Helicopter Rescue Award (1990)
  • NASA Achievement Award for developing a space sickness treatment method (1991)
  • NASA Space Flight Award (1989 and 1991)
  • NASA Exceptional Service Medal (1992)
  • Lovelace Award from the NASA Flight Surgeons Society

See also

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personal data
SURNAME Bagian, James P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bagian, James Philipp (full name); Bagian, Jim (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut, completed two missions with the space shuttle
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA