Paul Scully-Power

Paul Scully-Power

Country:	United States
Organization:	NASA
selected on	June 13, 1984 ( US Navy )
Calls:	1 space flight
Begin:	5th October 1984
Landing:	October 13, 1984
Time in space:	8d 5h 23min
retired on	October 13, 1984
Space flights
STS-41-G (1984)

Paul Desmond Scully-Power (born May 28, 1944 in Sydney , Australia ) is a former American - Australian astronaut .

education

Scully-Power is a native of Australia and was granted US citizenship in 1982. He studied applied mathematics at the University of Sydney .

Scully-Power participated as a scientist in numerous research voyages. In January 1967 he joined the Australian Navy. From July 1972 to March 1974 he was an exchange scientist with the United States Navy in Connecticut and Washington, DC During that time he was invited to assist the Earth observation team of the Skylab program.

In October 1977 he emigrated to the USA.

Astronaut activity

In June 1984, Scully-Power was selected as the payload specialist by NASA. At the time he was a civilian employee of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center.

STS-41-G

On October 5th, 1984 Scully-Power started as a payload specialist with the space shuttle Challenger for its first mission ( STS-41-G ) into space . In addition to the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite, a large number of experiments were carried out.

According to NASA

Scully-Power returned to Australia in 1996 and started working for an oceanographic consultancy. After a change in law in 2002, he reactivated his Australian citizenship.

He is currently chairman of his own high-tech consulting firm, Prime Solutions Pacific.

Private

Paul Scully-Power is married with six children.

Web links

Commons : Paul D. Scully-Power - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Short biography of Paul Scully-Power at spacefacts.de
NASA biography of Paul Scully-Power (English; PDF)
Biography of Paul Scully-Power in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)

Individual evidence

^ The Infrastructure Road to Recovery. (PDF) In: The New Citizen. February 2002, archived from the original on March 26, 2012 ; accessed on March 20, 2019 (English).

personal data
SURNAME	Scully power, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Scully-Power, Paul Desmond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH	May 28, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sydney , Australia

[1] The Infrastructure Road to Recovery. (PDF) In: The New Citizen. February 2002, archived from the original on March 26, 2012 ; accessed on March 20, 2019 (English).