William B. Lenoir

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William Lenoir
William Lenoir
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on August 4, 1967
( 6th NASA Group )
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: November 11, 1982
Landing: November 16, 1982
Time in space: 5d 2h 14min
retired on October 1984
Space flights

William Benjamin "Bill" Lenoir (born March 14, 1939 in Miami , Florida , † August 26, 2010 in Albuquerque , New Mexico ) was an American astronaut .

Life

Lenoir graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor and 1962 with a Master each in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1965 he completed a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. From 1964 to 1965 Lenoir was an instructor at MIT, and in 1965 he became an assistant professor of electrical engineering.

Astronaut activity

In August 1967, Lenoir was selected as a science astronaut by NASA. During his training, he also completed flight training at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas. Lenoir was on the backup team for the Skylab 3 and Skylab 4 missions , which were the second and third manned missions to the Skylab space station .

From September 1974 to July 1976 Lenoir worked, among other things, on a NASA project for a power plant in space.

STS-5

As a mission specialist, Lenoir took off on November 11, 1982 on the Columbia space shuttle for his only flight into space . This mission was the first space shuttle flight that launched commercial satellites. In addition to the two communication satellites and various experiments, the program also included the first space exit from a space shuttle. After Lenoir fell ill, the exit was initially postponed for a day and finally canceled after problems with the spacesuits . After five days, Lenoir landed with the Columbia at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

According to NASA

Lenoir left NASA in 1984 and moved to the consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton . From June 1989 to April 1992 he worked again for NASA management and then became Vice President of the Applied Systems department at Booz Allen Hamilton.

Private

William Lenoir was married twice and has three children. His first wife Elizabeth Frost was 1979-1984 Mayor of El Lago ( Harris County , Texas ) His second wife Terri Waite worked as an engineer at NASA . He died of his head injuries after a bicycle accident.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Harwood: Mission controllers release revised flight plan. Spaceflight Now, February 10, 2008, accessed on April 3, 2013 (English): “An EVA planned for the fifth shuttle mission was delayed one day when astronaut Bill Lenoir became ill. The spacewalk ultimately was called off because of spacesuit problems. "
  2. ^ Bill Lenoir dies at 71; NASA astronaut scientist crewed Columbia mission. Los Angeles Times, September 4, 2010, accessed April 3, 2013 .
  3. ^ William Lenoir, astronaut who flew on first operational space shuttle mission, dies. collectSPACE.com, August 30, 2010, accessed April 3, 2013 .

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SURNAME Lenoir, William B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lenoir, William Benjamin; Lenoir, Bill (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Miami , Florida
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 2010
Place of death Albuquerque , New Mexico