John-David F. Bartoe

  • STS -51 F ( 1985)

John David Francis Bartoe ( born November 17, 1944 in Abington, Pennsylvania) is an American astrophysicist. He has participated in 1985 as a payload specialist on a space flight of the Space Shuttle, but was not a professional astronaut of NASA. Bartoe is married and has three children.

Bartoe closed in 1966, graduated from Lehigh University with a bachelor's degree, followed by a master's degree in physics from Georgetown University in 1974. Two years later he earned his doctorate in physics also at Georgetown University. Bartoe is currently manager for the International Space Station (ISS) at the Johnson Space Center of NASA.

From 1966 to 1988 Bartoe was as astrophysicist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington and has published in this period about 60 works in the field of solar physics. Prior to his current position Bartoe was between 1987 and 1990 Chief Scientist of the space station and then for four years director of operation and exploitation in the NASA Headquarters ISS office.

STS -51- F

Bartoe flew as a civilian payload specialist of the U.S. Navy aboard the Challenger on the Space Shuttle mission STS -51 -F, which took place between 29 July and 6 August 1985. He studied there together with other scientists astrophysical questions ( Spacelab 2). 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.

STS -71 -O

This mission aboard the space shuttle Columbia had on 28 September 1987, the Sunlab -1 Spacelab mission are to bring into space. After the Challenger disaster the flight was canceled. For the team, the payload specialist George Simon and one of the two other payload specialist John - David Bartoe and Dianne Prince had heard.

STS -35

The Space Shuttle Columbia was launched on 2 December 1990 on the mission STS-35/Astro-1. This was the first shuttle flight, which was entirely devoted to astronomy. Replacement payload specialist were John - David Bartoe and Kenneth Nordsieck.

Summary

Awards

  • NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal
  • Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award
  • Flight Achievement Award of the American Astronautical Society
  • NASA Space Flight Medal
  • NASA Skylab Achievement Award
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