Ronald M. Sega
- STS -60 ( 1994)
- STS -76 ( 1996)
Michael Ronald "Ron" Sega ( born December 4, 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio ) is a former American astronaut.
Sega received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from the United States Air Force Academy in 1975 and a master's in physics from Ohio State University in 1974. In 1982 he received a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
In 1976, Sega of the United States Air Force his pilot's license and worked as an instructor pilot until 1979 at the Williams Air Force Base. In 1982 he became a professor at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. In between, he was also a researcher at the Air Force Academy and the University of Houston, where he co-developed at the Space Vacuum Epitaxy Center, the Wake Shield Facility. This flew in later to a total of three space shuttle missions into space.
Astronauts activity
In January 1990, Sega was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate. From November 1994 to March 1995 was Sega 's Director of Operations at NASA in the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Zvezdny Gorodok near Moscow.
STS -60
February 3, 1994 Sega started as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery for the first time into space. A special feature of this flight was that for the first time a Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev flew with an American spaceship. The Wake Shield Facility and the Spacehab module were the main payloads on board.
STS -76
On March 22, 1996 Sega launched as a payload commander aboard the space shuttle Atlantis to the Russian space station Mir. The third rendezvous mission, the astronaut Shannon Lucid was taken to the Mir space station. In addition, supplies, equipment and Experimentiergut were delivered. In addition, supplies, equipment and Experimentiergut were delivered, different devices mounted outboard of the station as well as technological and biological experiments conducted in Spacehab.
According to the NASA
After retiring from NASA in July 1996 Sega returned to the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He became assistant to the defense minister for nuclear, chemical and biological programs in 2001. In August 2001 he was appointed Director of Defense Research and Engineering in the Defence Minister 's office. From August 2005 to August 2007, he was Secretary of State ( Under Secretary ) of the Air Force. He is currently Professor of Systems Engineering at Colorado State University and vice president for applied research at Colorado State University Research Foundation ( CSURF ).
Private
Ronald Sega was married to the former astronaut Bonnie Dunbar and has two children.