Michael J. McCulley
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| Country: | United States |
| Organization: | NASA |
| selected on | May 23, 1984 ( 10th NASA Group ) |
| Calls: | 1 space flight |
| Begin: | October 18, 1989 |
| Landing: | October 23, 1989 |
| Time in space: | 4d 23h 39min |
| retired on | October 1990 |
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Michael James McCulley (born August 4, 1943 in San Diego , State of California , USA ) is a retired American astronaut .
McCulley received his bachelor's and master's degrees in metallurgical engineering from Purdue University in 1971 .
McCulley joined the United States Navy in 1961 and first served on various submarines. After studying at Purdue University from 1965 to 1970, he trained as a naval aviator and then attended the Empire Test Pilots School in Great Britain, where he was trained as a test pilot. After serving as a test pilot at the Naval Air Test Center in Patuxent River, Maryland, he moved to the aircraft carriers USS Saratoga and USS Nimitz .
Astronaut activity
In May 1984, McCulley was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate. After completing his training as a shuttle pilot, he worked as a weather coordinator, technical assistant in the Flight Crew Operations department and member of the support teams at the Kennedy Space Center .
STS 61-N
In December 1985, McCulley was assigned as a pilot for the US Department of Defense's STS-61-N mission . Other crew members were Commander Brewster Shaw , the mission specialists James Adamson , David Leestma and Mark Brown, and the payload specialists Frank Casserino (MSE) and Lawrence Skantze (DoD). This flight was scheduled to start in September 1986, but was canceled after the Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986.
STS-34
On October 18, 1989, McCulley took off into space as a pilot on the space shuttle Atlantis . The main payload was Jupiter's Galileo probe . It was launched into space together with the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) rocket . Furthermore, experiments on earth exploration, environmental research, material technology, astronomy and medicine were carried out and there was an IMAX camera on board.
According to NASA
After leaving NASA in October 1990, McCulley moved to Lockheed Martin Space Operations. From 1996 he worked for United Space Alliance . In November 1999 he became Chief Operating Officer (COO) and in May 2003 Chief Executive Officer (CEO, Managing Director) of United Space Alliance. In September 2007, McCulley retired from the United Space Alliance's CEO post.
Private
Michael McCulley is married with six children.
See also
Web links
- Short biography of Michael J. McCulley at spacefacts.de
- NASA biography of Michael J. McCulley (English; PDF)
- Biography of Michael J. McCulley in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
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| SURNAME | McCulley, Michael J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McCulley, Michael James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Diego , California, USA |