Jon McBride

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Jon McBride
Jon McBride
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on January 16, 1978
( 8th NASA Group )
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: 5th October 1984
Landing: October 13, 1984
Time in space: 8d 5h 23min
retired on May 12, 1989
Space flights

Jon Andrew McBride (born August 14, 1943 in Charleston , West Virginia ) is a retired American astronaut .

education

McBride studied at West Virginia University from 1960 to 1964 and received a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1971 .

In 1965 McBride joined the United States Navy and was trained as a naval aviator. During the Vietnam War he flew 64 combat missions. At Edwards Air Force Base , he completed training as a test pilot. He holds a commercial pilot license and has already worked as a pilot instructor.

Astronaut activity

In January 1978, McBride was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate. He was an observation pilot for the first shuttle mission STS-1 , he checked software in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL), he was the liaison officer ( CAPCOM ) for the missions STS-5 , STS-6 and STS-7 and also worked as a so-called Flight Data File (FDF) Manager.

In July 1987, McBride moved to NASA headquarters to coordinate NASA relations with the United States Congress . In 1988 he was appointed as commander for the STS-35 mission , which was to take place in March 1990; However, McBride left NASA in May 1989.

STS-41-G

On October 5, 1984, McBride started as a pilot of the space shuttle Challenger on its first mission ( STS-41-G ) into space . In addition to the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite, a large number of experiments were carried out.

STS-61-E

This mission with the space shuttle Columbia should have brought the ASTRO-1 Spacelab mission into space on March 6, 1986. The flight was canceled after the Challenger disaster. The team would have consisted of Jon McBride, Richard Richards , David Leestma , Jeffrey Hoffman , Robert Parker , Samuel Durrance and Ronald Parise .

STS-71-A

This mission with the space shuttle Atlantis should have brought the ASTRO-2 Spacelab mission into space on January 12, 1987. The flight was canceled after the Challenger disaster. The team would have consisted of Jon McBride, Richard Richards , David Leestma , Jeffrey Hoffman , Robert Parker , payload specialist Kenneth Nordsieck and one of the two other payload specialists Samuel Durrance and Ronald Parise .

According to NASA

In May 1989, McBride became President and CEO of the Flying Eagle Corporation in Lewisburg . In 1996 he ran for the Republican nomination for governor of West Virginia , but lost in the primary of his party to Cecil H. Underwood . In September 1998 he moved to the Image Development Group in his native Charleston.

Private

Jon McBride is married and has four children.

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personal data
SURNAME McBride, Jon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McBride, Jon Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Charleston , West Virginia