James Buchli
- STS 51 -C ( 1984)
- STS -61- A ( 1985)
- STS -29 ( 1989)
- STS -48 ( 1991)
James Frederick Buchli ( born June 20, 1945 in New Rockford, North Dakota ) is a former American astronaut.
Training
Buchli 1967 received a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 1975 and a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of West Florida.
1967 Buchli joined the United States Marine Corps. Following basic training, he was employed for a year in the Vietnam War. After his return to the U.S. he took part in the training of naval aviators. The next year he was stationed, among other things in Hawaii, Japan and Thailand. In 1977 he was transferred to the U.S. Test Pilot School at Patuxent River in Maryland.
Astronauts activity
Buchli was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate in August 1979. At NASA, he was a member of the support team for the Space Shuttle missions STS -1 and STS -2 and also connecting speakers ( CAPCOM ) for STS -2. From March 1989 to May 1992 he was deputy head of the Astronaut Office.
STS- 10 and STS -41 -E
The launch of STS -10 was scheduled for November 1983, the flight had then but due to delays the secret payload to be canceled. Ken Mattingly, Loren Shriver, Ellison Onizuka, Jim Buchli and the payload specialist for the U.S. Air Force Gary Payton were nominated here as a team for the July 1984 this military aircraft under the designation STS -41 - E was put back into the program, but this satellite mission of the U.S. Department of Defense has also been canceled due to problems with the IUS upper stage. Ken Mattingly, Loren Shriver, Ellison Onizuka, Jim Buchli and the payload specialist for the U.S. Air Force Jeffrey Detroye were nominated here as a team. The launch was scheduled for March 1984 with the Space Shuttle Challenger.
STS 51 -C
His first space flight took Buchli on 24 January 1985 as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery. Mission objective of STS- 51- C was the suspension of a geostationary satellite reconnaissance on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense.
STS -61 -A
Buchlis next assignment took place on 30 October 1985 the space shuttle Challenger. In this mission, which is also referred to as D1 mission, the European Spacelab was carried in the hold. Here, for the first and only time flew eight astronauts simultaneously with a spaceship into space. In addition, the satellite GLOMR (Global Low Orbiting Message Relay) of the U.S. military has been suspended.
STS 61- H
In February 1985 Buchli was assigned as a mission specialist on STS -61 -H. The Columbia mission, planned for June 1986 was canceled after the Challenger disaster. It should have been exposed to a commercial communications satellite. The team would have consisted of Michael Coats, John Blaha, Anna Fisher, James Buchli, Robert Springer, the British payload specialist Nigel Wood and the Indonesian payload specialist Pratiwi Sudarmono.
STS -29
On March 13, 1989 Buchli flew aboard the space shuttle Discovery into space. In addition to performing a variety of experiments, the communications satellite TDRS -4 was exposed in this mission. In addition, the astronauts took pictures with a hand-held IMAX camera.
STS -48
The last time Buchli flew on 12 September 1991 with the space shuttle Discovery into space. In this five- day mission, the UARS satellite was exposed to research the upper atmosphere.
According to the NASA
In September 1992, Buchli retired from NASA and the U.S. Marine Corps and was Manager for Space Station Systems and Operations at Boeing.
Private
James Buchli and his wife Jean have two children.