Bonnie J. Dunbar

  • STS -61- A ( 1985)
  • STS -32 ( 1990)
  • STS -50 ( 1992)
  • STS -71 (1995)
  • STS -89 (1998)

Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar (born 3 March 1949 in Sunnyside, Washington, United States) is a former American astronaut.

Training

Dunbar graduated 1967, the Sunnyside High School in Sunnyside, Washington. At the University of Washington in 1971 she made her bachelor's degree and four years later a master's degree, both from the University of Washington in materials engineering with a focus on Ceramic Application beings. In between, she had worked from 1971 to 1973 as Systemanalystin at Boeing Computer Services and completed in 1975 a study abroad in Oxford. From 1976 she worked at Rockwell International in Downey.

Dunbar competed in 1977 at NASA as an astronaut. Although she was not selected, but got to work in Houston an offer, as of July 1978 from the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. She was employed there in the payload bay, but was also on the re-entry of Skylab involved in the summer of 1979. For the next group of NASA astronauts Dunbar was selected in May 1980 as a mission specialist.

In 1983 she received her doctorate in mechanical and biomedical engineering at the University of Houston.

Astronauts activity

STS -61 -A

On October 30, 1985 aboard the space shuttle Challenger Dunbar (STS -61 -A ), the first Spacelab mission in German responsibility ( D1 mission ). Under the leadership of the then German Research and Testing Institute for Aerospace ( DFVLR ) the crew, including the two German astronaut Reinhard Furrer and Ernst Schmid knife, experiments to medicine, biology, and fluid physics conducted.

It was the first and only flight with a crew of eight astronauts.

STS -32

With the Space Shuttle Columbia Dunbar flew on 9 January 1990, the mission STS -32. The main tasks of the flight was the successful launch of the communications satellite Syncom IV -F5 and the mountains of the research platform LDEF with the Canadarm.

STS -50

During the mission, STS -50 was Dunbar Nutzlastkommandantin on the Space Shuttle Columbia. The mission launched on 25 June 1992. The primary payload was the Microgravity Laboratory USML -1, a manned Spacelab module. There have been numerous experiments for the study of crystal growth of zeolite, the surface tension of physics and human physiology.

STS -71

On 27 June 1995, the 100th mission (STS -71 ) launched a manned spacecraft of the United States. Dunbar worked on the Space Shuttle Atlantis as a mission specialist. Main tasks was the first coupling during the third flight in the Shuttle -Mir program between the space shuttle and space station Mir. Moreover, in the module Spacelab various medical experiments to study the effects of microgravity were conducted on the vascular system, bone, and the lungs of the human.

STS -89

As a payload specialist Dunbar started on 23 January 1998 (STS -89 ). It was the tenth flight as part of the Shuttle -Mir program, and the eighth coupling between an American Space Shuttle and the Mir space station. With the flight Andrew Thomas was returned to me and David Wolf back to Earth. Also in Spacehab experiments were carried out to weightlessness.

According to the NASA

Dunbar finished their active time at NASA September 2005 and was on 3 October 2005 Director General of the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington. This position she retained until July 2010, after she took over the management of the subsidiary " Wings over Washington ."

2013 Dunbar was recorded with Eileen Collins and Curtis Brown at the Astronaut Hall of Fame.

Private

Dunbar was married to NASA astronaut Ronald Sega.

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