Loren Shriver

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Loren Shriver
Loren Shriver
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on January 16, 1978
( 8th NASA Group )
Calls: 3 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		January 24, 1985
Landing of the
last space flight: 		August 8, 1992
Time in space: 16d 2h 4min
retired on May 1993
Space flights

Loren James Shriver (born September 23, 1944 in Jefferson , Iowa , USA ) is a former American astronaut .

Shriver received a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1967 and a master's degree in aerospace engineering from Purdue University in 1968 .

In 1967 Shriver joined the United States Air Force and was a pilot instructor at Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma from 1969 to 1973 . From 1973 to 1974 he was stationed in Thailand. In 1975 he was trained as a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base and was also used as such from 1976.

Astronaut activity

In January 1978, Shriver was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate. In 1985, 1990 and 1992 he took part in three space flights.

Shriver became Space Shuttle Program Manager for Launch Integration in 1993. In 1997 he became assistant director of shuttle launches and payloads at the Kennedy Space Center . From 2000 to 2006 he was the deputy program manager of the space shuttle program.

STS-10

STS-10 was canceled due to delays in its payload, a US Department of Defense satellite. Ken Mattingly, Loren Shriver, Ellison Onizuka, James Buchli and the US Air Force's first military astronaut payload specialist Gary Payton had been scheduled for this flight in November 1983.

STS-41-E

The US Department of Defense's STS-41-E satellite mission was 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. The launch was planned for March 1984 with the space shuttle Challenger.

STS-51-C

Shriver made his first space flight on January 24, 1985 as a pilot of 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-M

The mission STS-61-M of the Challenger would have a in July 1986 to TDRS satellites are to bring into space. The crew would have consisted of Loren Shriver, Bryan O'Connor, Mark Lee, Sally Ride, William Fisher and the US industrial astronaut payload specialist Robert Wood. This flight was canceled after the Challenger disaster .

STS-31

Shriver's second flight began on April 24, 1990, while he was in command of the space shuttle Discovery . The main task of STS-31 was to deploy the Hubble space telescope . In addition, images of the earth were made with an IMAX camera.

STS-46

On July 31, 1992, Shriver took off as commander of the space shuttle Atlantis for the STS-46 mission . During the eight-day flight, the EURECA satellite was suspended and tests were carried out with the Tethered Satellite System (TSS).

Private

Loren Shriver is married and has four children.

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Commons : Loren James Shriver  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Shriver, Loren
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shriver, Loren James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Jefferson , State of Iowa , USA