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{{Infobox astronaut |name =Byron Kurt Lichtenberg |image =Byron Lichtenberg.jpg |type =MIT Payload Specialist |nationality =American |birth_date ={{Birth date and age|1948|02|19}} |birth_place =[[Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania|Jim Thorpe]], Pennsylvania |occupation =Engineer |rank =Lieutenant Colonel, USAF |selection = |time =19d 05h 56m |mission =[[STS-9]], [[STS-45]] |insignia =<center>[[File:Sts-9-patch.png|40px]][[File:Sts-45-patch.png|40px]]</center> }} '''Byron Kurt Lichtenberg, Sc. D.''' (born February 19, 1948) is an American engineer and fighter pilot who flew aboard two [[NASA]] [[Space Shuttle]] missions as a [[Payload Specialist]]. In 1983, he and [[Ulf Merbold]] became the [[STS-9|first Payload Specialists]] to fly on the shuttle. ==Personal== Born February 19, 1948 in [[Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania]]. Married to Tamara Lichtenberg with five children, including two adopted Chinese daughters. ==Education== *Sc.B., aerospace engineering, Brown University (1969) *S.M., mechanical engineering, MIT (1975) *Sc.D., biomedical engineering, MIT (1979) *Sc.D., [[Westminster College (Pennsylvania)|Westminster College]] (honorary) ==Awards and honors== *[[NASA Space Flight Medal]]s (2) *AIAA [[Andrew G. Haley|Haley]] Space Flight Award *FAI [[Vladimir Komarov|Komarov]] Award ==Organizations== Founding Member: *[[Association of Space Explorers]] *[[X-Prize Foundation]] *[[International Space University]] Member: *User Panel for [[National Space Biomedical Research Institute]] *Tau Beta Pi (honorary engineering society) *Sigma Xi (honorary scientific society) ==Career== From 1978 to 1984 he was a researcher for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)/[[Canadian Vestibular]] experiments on [[Spacelab]] 1, Spacelab D-1, Spacelab SLS-1 and SLS-2, and a co-principal investigator for the Mental Workload and Performance experiment flown on IML-1 to assess human-computer workstation characteristics for the Space Station. He was a founder of Payload Systems, Inc., a company that has provided hardware and flight support for MODE and MACE experiments for the [[Space Shuttle]] and [[International Space Station]] (ISS). They also were the first commercial user of the [[Mir]] Space Station, flying protein crystal growth experiments to Mir in the early 1990s. He is now President of [[Zero Gravity Corporation]], founded to make [[Parabola|parabolic]], weightless aircraft flights available to the general public. He was a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot for 23 years, flying the F-4, F-100, and [[A-10 Thunderbolt II|A-10]], reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the [[Massachusetts Air National Guard]].<ref>http://www.supersabresociety.com/bios/lichtenbergbio.pdf</ref> Survived 238 combat missions during the Vietnam War, and received two Distinguished Flying Crosses, ten Air Medals, and numerous other decorations. He flew as a captain for Southwest Airlines and is now a professor at [[LeTourneau University]] in Longview Texas. ==Spaceflight experience== Lichtenberg was the first [[astronaut]] to serve as a [[Payload Specialist]]. He flew on Spacelab-1 ([[STS-9]]) mission for ten days in 1983, conducted multiple experiments in life sciences, materials sciences, Earth observations, astronomy and [[solar physics]], upper atmosphere and [[plasma physics]]. His second flight was ATLAS-1 ([[STS-45]]) Spacelab mission for nine days in 1992; conducted 13 experiments in Atmospheric sciences and astronomy. He flew 310 orbits, and logged 468 hours in space. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/lichtenberg-bk.html NASA Bio] *[http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/lichtenberg_byron.htm Spacefacts biography of Byron K. Lichtenberg] {{Wikipedia|Byron K. Lichtenberg}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lichtenberg, Byron K.}} [[Category:1948 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American astronauts]] [[Category:NASA civilian astronauts]] [[Category:People from Monroe County, Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Brown University School of Engineering alumni]] [[Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni]] [[Category:United States Air Force officers]] [[Category:United States Air National Guard]] [[Category:American engineers]] [[Category:American aviators]] [[Category:American military personnel of the Vietnam War]] [[Category:Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)]] [[Category:Recipients of the Air Medal]]
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