Albert Sacco
- STS -73 (1995)
Albert " Al " Sacco Jr. ( May 3, 1949 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States) is a former American astronaut.
Sacco received in 1973 a Bachelor in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University in 1977 and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Thereafter Sacco member of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he became a professor in 1989. He also oversaw the zeolite crystal growth experiments that flew with STS -73 into space.
Since 1998, Sacco is a professor at Northeastern University in Boston.
STS -50
Sacco was in the backup crew for the mission STS -50 Space Shuttle Columbia. This Spacelab mission launched on 25 June 1992.
STS -73
On October 20, 1995 Sacco started as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Columbia into space. On this 16-day Spacelab mission under the name " United States Microgravity Laboratory ( USML ) 2 " 16 main experiments were carried out in the research disciplines of materials, combustion science, fluid physics and biotechnology.
Private
Albert Sacco is married and has four children.