Robert J. Cenker

• STS 61- C ( 1986)

Robert Joseph Cenker, Jr. ( born November 5, 1948 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American engineer and has participated in a space flight as a payload specialist. But he was not a professional astronaut.

Cenker received in 1970 from the Pennsylvania State University and a bachelor's degree in 1973 a master's degree in aeronautics and aerospace engineering and in 1977 from Rutgers University, a master's in electrical engineering.

Cenker was an engineer at RCA, where he developed a wide range of satellite systems.

Cenker currently advises several companies in the areas of space technology and exploration of weightlessness.

Astronauts activity

Cenker was selected in May 1985 by RCA as a payload specialist and classified by NASA for the Space Shuttle mission STS -61 -C. On January 12 In 1986 Cenker with the space shuttle Columbia to the six-day mission into space. Cenker led doing various physiological tests, observed exposing the Satcom Ku -1 by RCA and operated an infrared camera.

Private

Robert Cenker and his wife Barbara have two sons and a daughter.