Robert J. Cenker
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| Country: | United States |
| Organization: | RCA |
| selected on | May 8, 1985 ( RCA group ) |
| Calls: | 1 space flight |
| Begin: | January 12, 1986 |
| Landing: | January 18, 1986 |
| Time in space: | 6d 2h 03min |
| retired on | January 18, 1986 |
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Robert Joseph Cenker, Jr. (born November 5, 1948 in Uniontown , Pennsylvania , USA ) is an American engineer and has participated in a space flight as a payload specialist. But he was not a professional astronaut .
Cenker received a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1970 and a masters degree in 1973, and a masters degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers University in 1977 .
Cenker was an engineer at RCA , where he developed various satellite systems .
Cenker currently advises various companies in the fields of space technology and research into weightlessness .
Astronaut activity
Cenker was selected by RCA as a payload specialist in May 1985 and assigned by NASA to the space shuttle mission STS-61-C . On January 12, 1986, Cenker took off on the Columbia space shuttle for the six-day mission into space . Cenker carried out various physiological tests, observed the launch of the Satcom Ku-1 satellite from RCA and operated an infrared camera.
Private
Robert Cenker and his wife Barbara have two sons and a daughter.
See also
Web links
- Short biography of Robert J. Cenker at spacefacts.de
- NASA biography of Robert J. Cenker (English; PDF)
- Biography of Robert J. Cenker in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
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| SURNAME | Cenker, Robert J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cenker, Robert Joseph; Cenker, Robert Joseph Jr. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uniontown , Pennsylvania |