Anthony W. England

• STS -51 F ( 1985)

Anthony Wayne England ( born May 15, 1942 in Indianapolis, Indiana ) is a former American astronaut.

England received a bachelor's degree in 1965 and a Masters in Earth Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1970 he was in the same discipline - also at MIT - PhD.

Before joining NASA England worked for three years at MIT. There he developed radar systems for the exploration of the moon with Apollo 17, as well as glaciers in Washington and Alaska. He was twice for scientific research in Antarctica.

Astronauts activity

In August 1967, England was selected by NASA as a science astronaut. He went through in his subsequent training and a one-year flight training at Laughlin Air Force Base. He was a member of the support team for the lunar missions Apollo 13 and Apollo 16

In 1972, he left NASA and became deputy director of the Office of Geochemistry and Geophysics for the United States Geological Survey.

1979 returned back to England as a mission specialist for Johnson Space Center, where he worked in the Missonsentwicklung in an astronaut office.

From May 1986 to May 1987 he was Program Scientist for the International Space Station, which at that time still called Freedom. From June 1987 to December 1987 he taught Remote Sensing Geophysics at Rice University.

STS -51- F

On July 29, 1985 England began as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Challenger on the Spacelab 2 mission (STS -51 -F) into space. It was the first flight of the European space laboratory module without pressure - the experiments, mainly in the disciplines of astronomy and astrophysics, the Challenger were on three pallets in the cargo area have been installed. The crew worked in two shifts to maximize the utilization of the experiments.

According to the NASA

1988 retired from England from NASA and is currently a professor at the University of Michigan.

Private

Anthony England is married and has two children.