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.

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