Ronald A. Parise
- STS -35 ( 1990)
- STS -67 ( 1995)
Ronald Anthony Parise ( born May 24, 1951 in Warren, Ohio, USA; † 9 May, 2008 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States) was an American astronomer. He has participated in 1990 and 1995 as a payload specialist on space flights of the Space Shuttle, but was not a professional astronaut of NASA.
Life
Parise received in 1973 a Bachelor in Physics from Youngstown State University. In 1977 he received a Master and a PhD in 1979 in astronomy at the University of Florida.
In 1979, the company Parise Operations Research Inc. (ORI ), where he has been involved in projects for NASA. In 1980 he started working for Computer Sciences Corporation where he worked in the program for the Space Telescope International Ultraviolet Explorer ( IUE ). In 1981 he began developing a new Spacelab experiment called Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope ( UIT ).
Parise was involved in numerous astronomical research projects based on data from Erdobservatorien and space telescopes Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 3 ( Copernicus ), International Ultraviolet Explorer ( IUE ) and the ASTRO- based observatory. His research focuses on the interstellar matter in binary systems and the development status of stars in globular clusters have been published in numerous articles.
Astronauts activity
1984 Parise was selected by NASA as a payload specialist for the new ASTRO missions. At NASA, he helped in the development and evaluation of the results of these missions. Also in the planning of missions to the space station Mir, the International Space Station and for the X -38 Crew Return Vehicle he was involved.
STS -61- E
Parise should start with the space shuttle Columbia in March 1986 on the ASTRO- 1 mission. After the Challenger disaster, the mission STS -61- E has been canceled.
STS -M -71
This mission with the Challenger space shuttle would have on 18 August 1987, the ASTRO -3- Spacelab mission are to bring into space. After the Challenger disaster the flight was canceled. For team also payload specialist Kenneth Nordsieck and one of the two other payload specialists Samuel Durrance and Ronald Parise had heard.
STS -35
On 2 December 1990 Parise started as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Columbia into space. During this flight, there were start-up delays, so that the first time in history, two space shuttles be ready to survive on the launch pads. The main objective of the mission were astronomical observations with the instruments of the ASTRO -1 platform in the UV and X-rays. During the mission, there were some technical problems, so functioned as the display for aligning the ASTRO -1 telescopes not. The telescopes therefore had to be controlled from Earth. However, the scientific objectives could still be achieved at around 70 percent.
STS -67
On his second space mission Parise flew on 2 March 1995 as a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Endeavour into space. It was the second flight of the Astro observatory with three Ultra-Violet telescopes on board. The flight lasted 16 days and ended with a landing on 18 March 1995 at the Edwards Air Force Base in California.
After the space flight
After his space flights, he worked at the Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA.
Death
Ronald Parise died on 9 May 2008 of a brain tumor. He left behind his wife and two children.