Guess Who This Is
  1. Home
    1. Home
    2. About
    3. Site FAQs
    4. Synonyms
    5. Recent Entries
    6. Connect …
      1. RSS Feed
      2. Feedback
  2. Search
    1. Names
    2. Brief Facts
    3. Titles, Groups
    4. Born …
      1. Today
      2. Month and Day
      3. Month and Year
      4. Year
    5. Died …
      1. Month and Day
      2. Month and Year
      3. Year
      4. Same Event
    6. Categories
  3. People
    1. Birth Place
    2. Zodiac Sign
    3. Space Missions
    4. Halls of Fame
      & Awards …
      1. All Halls/Awards
      2. Select a Hall/Award
      3. Search for Halls/Awards
  4. Teams
    1. Baseball
    2. Basketball
    3. Football
    4. Hockey
    5. Soccer
    6. Rugby
  5. Music Groups
    1. Rap/Hip-hop
    2. Country
    3. Punk
    4. Metal
    5. Jazz
    6. Bluegrass
    7. Folk

7 Persons on Mission STS-51-B

Don Lind
space, scientist, aviator

Real/Birth Name:
Don Leslie Lind
Also Known As:
Don L. Lind
Gender:
Male
Birth Date:
18 May 1930
Age today:
90
Traditional Zodiac Sign:
Taurus ♉ - the Bull - people born April 21 through May 21
Birth Place:
Midvale, Utah, USA

Brief Facts:

Astronaut, physicist. CAPCOM for the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 missions.

Space Missions:

STS-51-B
Shuttle Challenger, launched April 29, 1985
Duration: 7d 0h.

Frederick Gregory
space

Real/Birth Name:
Frederick Drew Gregory
Gender:
Male
Birth Date:
7 January 1941
Age today:
80
Traditional Zodiac Sign:
Capricorn ♑ - the Sea-Goat - people born December 23 through January 20
Birth Place:
Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Brief Facts:

Astronaut.

Space Missions:

STS-33
Shuttle Discovery, launched November 22, 1989
Duration: 5d 0h.
STS-44
Shuttle Atlantis, launched November 24, 1991
Duration: 6d 22h.
STS-51-B
Shuttle Challenger, launched April 29, 1985
Duration: 7d 0h.

Halls of Fame, Awards, etc.

U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame 2004.

Lodewijk van den Berg
space, scientist, engineer

Real/Birth Name:
Lodewijk van den Berg
Gender:
Male
Birth Date:
24 March 1932
Age today:
88, 28 days before his 89th birthday
Traditional Zodiac Sign:
Aries ♈ - the Ram - people born March 21 through April 20
Birth Place:
Sluiskil, Netherlands

Brief Facts:

Astronaut and chemical engineer. Became a naturalized US citizen, no longer Dutch.

Space Missions:

STS-51-B
Shuttle Challenger, launched April 29, 1985
Duration: 7d 0h.

Norman Thagard
space, doctor, educator

Real/Birth Name:
Norman Earl Thagard
Nickname(s):
Norm
Gender:
Male
Birth Date:
3 July 1943
Age today:
77
Traditional Zodiac Sign:
Cancer ♋ - the Crab - people born June 22 through July 22
Birth Place:
Marianna, Florida, USA

Brief Facts:

Astronaut.

Space Missions:

Mir EO-18
Soyuz TM-21
STS-30
Shuttle Atlantis, launched May 04, 1989
Duration: 4d 0h.
STS-42
Shuttle Discovery, launched January 22, 1992
Duration: 8d 1h.
STS-51-B
Shuttle Challenger, launched April 29, 1985
Duration: 7d 0h.
STS-7
Shuttle Challenger, launched June 18, 1983
Duration: 6d 2h.
STS-71
Shuttle Atlantis, launched June 27, 1995
Duration: 9d 19h.

Halls of Fame, Awards, etc.

International Space Hall of Fame.
U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame 2004.

Robert Overmyer
aviator, space, accident, air crash

Real/Birth Name:
Robert Franklyn Overmyer
Gender:
Male
Birth Date:
14 July 1936
Death Date:
22 March 1996
Age at Death:
59
Traditional Zodiac Sign:
Cancer ♋ - the Crab - people born June 22 through July 22
Birth Place:
Lorain, Ohio, USA

Brief Facts:

Shuttle pilot. Shuttle mission with SpaceLab 3. Died in a plane crash, a light plane he was testing.

Space Missions:

SpaceLab 3 (1985)
April 29. Aboard shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51B. Objective was to provide a high quality microgravity environment for delicate materials processing and fluid experiments.
STS-5
Shuttle Columbia, launched November 11, 1982
Duration: 5d 2h.
STS-51-B
Shuttle Challenger, launched April 29, 1985
Duration: 7d 0h.

Taylor Wang
space, scientist, educator

Real/Birth Name:
Taylor Gun-Jin Wang
Also Known As:
Taylor G. Wang
Wáng Gànjùn
Gender:
Male
Birth Date:
16 June 1940
Age today:
80
Traditional Zodiac Sign:
Gemini ♊ - the Twins - people born May 22 through June 21
Birth Place:
Jiangxi, China

Brief Facts:

Astronaut. US citizenship in 1975. The first ethnic Chinese person to go into space.

Space Missions:

STS-51-B
Shuttle Challenger, launched April 29, 1985
Duration: 7d 0h.

William E. Thornton
space, doctor, educator

Real/Birth Name:
William Edgar Thornton
Gender:
Male
Birth Date:
14 April 1929
Age today:
91
Traditional Zodiac Sign:
Aries ♈ - the Ram - people born March 21 through April 20
Birth Place:
Faison, North Carolina, USA

Brief Facts:

Astronaut and doctor. Spacelab-3.

Space Missions:

Spacelab-3
STS-51-B
Shuttle Challenger, launched April 29, 1985
Duration: 7d 0h.
STS-8
Shuttle Challenger, launched August 30, 1983
Duration: 6d 1h.
GuessWhoThisIs.com has real names of famous people and brief data about them.
NO cookies, NO login, NO advertisements
Copyright © 2003-2021 GuessWhoThisIs.com - All Rights Reserved