Frederick W. Leslie

• STS -73 (1995)

Fred Weldon Leslie ( born December 19, 1951 in Ancon, Panama ) is a former American astronaut.

Training

Leslie received a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1977 and a master's degree in 1979 and a PhD in Meteorology with a minor in Fluid Mechanics from the University of Oklahoma in 1974. Leslie also has a commercial pilot license.

Scientific activity

1979 Leslie worked in the research at Purdue University and was 1980 for the Universities Space Research Association, a visiting scientist at the Marshall Space Flight Center ( MSFC ). Leslie began working for NASA as a scientist at the Space Science Laboratory at MSFC. Since 1983 he worked at the Geophysical Fluid Flow Cell experiment that flew with the Spacelab mission STS -51- B into space and was also part of the United States Microgravity Laboratory -2 payload ( USML -2). He also worked at the neutral Bueyancy simulator and in 1987 Head of the fluid dynamics. He also coordinated more than 40 national and Japanese experiments for Spacelab mission STS- 40th

STS -73

On October 20, 1995 Leslie began as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Columbia into space. On this 16-day Spacelab mission under the name " United States Microgravity Laboratory 2 " 16 main experiments were carried out in the research disciplines of materials, combustion science, fluid physics and biotechnology.

Then Leslie evaluated the results of this mission at MSFC further.