Mary Louise Cleave
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| Country: | United States |
| Organization: | NASA |
| selected on | May 19, 1980 ( 9th NASA Group ) |
| Calls: | 2 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
November 27, 1985 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
May 8, 1989 |
| Time in space: | 10d 22h 0m |
| retired on | May 1991 |
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Mary Louise Cleave (born February 5, 1947 in Southampton , Long Island , New York ) is a former American astronaut .
Cleave received a bachelor's degree in biology from Colorado State University in 1969 and a master's degree in microbiology from Utah State University in 1975 . In 1979, she also received a PhD in civil and environmental engineering from Utah State University .
From 1971 to 1980, Cleave worked in research at the Ecology Center and the Utah Water Research Laboratory at Utah State University.
Astronaut activity
In May 1980, Cleave was selected by NASA as an astronaut aspirant. She worked, among other things, in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL) and as a liaison officer ( CAPCOM ) on five space shuttle flights. In May 1991, Cleave left the Johnson Space Center and moved to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center . She worked in the laboratory for hydrospherical processes as a project manager for SeaWiFS (Sea-viewing, Wide-Field-of-view-Sensor), a marine color sensor that monitors global vegetation. Cleave then served as an Associate Administrator in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters in Washington, DC through April 2007 . In 2017 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
STS-61-B
On November 27, 1985, Cleave started as a mission specialist on the space shuttle Atlantis for her first flight into space . During this mission, the three communications satellites MORELOS-B ( Mexico ), AUSSAT-2 ( Australia ) and SATCOM KU-2 were deployed. Techniques for assembling structural elements in space were tested in two outboard activities. Cleave operated the robot arm of the space shuttle.
STS-30
On May 4, 1989, Cleave flew into space again on the space shuttle Atlantis. The payload was the Venus probe Magellan , which was accelerated towards Venus with an IUS upper stage . STS-30 was the first mission in which the space shuttle was used to launch an interplanetary spacecraft.
See also
Web links
- Short biography of Mary Louise Cleave at spacefacts.de
- NASA biography of Mary Louise Cleave (PDF)
- Biography of Mary Louise Cleave in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
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| SURNAME | Cleave, Mary Louise |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Southampton , New York |