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Byron Kurt Lichtenberg, Sc. D. (Born February 19, 1948 in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

Stroudsburg is a borough in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located in the The Poconos region of the state, approximately five miles from the Delaware Water Gap, at the confluence of the Brodhead and Pocono creeks....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 engineer
Engineer

An engineer is a person professionally engaged in a field of engineering. Engineers are concerned with developing economical and safe solutions to practical problems, by applying mathematics and scientific knowledge while considering technical constraints....
 who flew aboard two NASA
NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
 Space Shuttle
Space Shuttle

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System , is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions....
 missions as a Payload Specialist
Payload Specialist

In NASA vernacular, a 'Payload Specialist' was an individual selected and trained by commercial or research organizations for flights of a specific payload on a Space Shuttle mission....
.

February 19, 1948 in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

Stroudsburg is a borough in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located in the The Poconos region of the state, approximately five miles from the Delaware Water Gap, at the confluence of the Brodhead and Pocono creeks....
. Married to Tamara Lichtenberg with five children, including two adopted Chinese
Han Chinese

Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and, by most modern definitions, the largest single ethnic group in the Earth.Han Chinese constitute about 92 percent of the population of the People's Republic of China , 98 percent of the population of the Republic of China , 75 percent of the population of Singapore, and about 19 percent...
 daughters. He is a U.S. citizen.



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1978 to 1984 he was a researcher for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private university research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
 (MIT)/Canadian Vestibular experiments on Spacelab
Spacelab

Spacelab was a reusable laboratory flown into space on the Space Shuttle. It allowed scientists to perform experiments in microgravity in Earth orbit....
 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
Space Shuttle

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System , is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions....
 and ISS
International Space Station

The International Space Station is a research facility Assembly of the International Space Station in outer space. On-orbit construction of the station began in 1998, and is scheduled to be complete by 2011, with operations continuing until around 2015....
.






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Byron Kurt Lichtenberg, Sc. D. (Born February 19, 1948 in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

Stroudsburg is a borough in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located in the The Poconos region of the state, approximately five miles from the Delaware Water Gap, at the confluence of the Brodhead and Pocono creeks....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 engineer
Engineer

An engineer is a person professionally engaged in a field of engineering. Engineers are concerned with developing economical and safe solutions to practical problems, by applying mathematics and scientific knowledge while considering technical constraints....
 who flew aboard two NASA
NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
 Space Shuttle
Space Shuttle

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System , is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions....
 missions as a Payload Specialist
Payload Specialist

In NASA vernacular, a 'Payload Specialist' was an individual selected and trained by commercial or research organizations for flights of a specific payload on a Space Shuttle mission....
.

Personal

Born February 19, 1948 in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

Stroudsburg is a borough in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located in the The Poconos region of the state, approximately five miles from the Delaware Water Gap, at the confluence of the Brodhead and Pocono creeks....
. Married to Tamara Lichtenberg with five children, including two adopted Chinese
Han Chinese

Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and, by most modern definitions, the largest single ethnic group in the Earth.Han Chinese constitute about 92 percent of the population of the People's Republic of China , 98 percent of the population of the Republic of China , 75 percent of the population of Singapore, and about 19 percent...
 daughters. He is a U.S. citizen.

Education

  • Sc.B., aerospace engineering, Brown University
    Brown University

    Brown University is a private university university located in , United States and is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1764 as the College of Rhode Island, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in New England and Colonial Colleges in the United States....
     (1969)
  • S.M., mechanical engineering, MIT (1975)
  • Sc.D., biomedical engineering, MIT
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private university research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
     (1979)
  • Sc.D., Westminster College (honorary)


Awards and honors

  • NASA Space Flight Medal
    NASA Space Flight Medal

    The NASA Space Flight Medal is a decoration of the NASA. According to its statutes, it is awarded "for significant achievement or service during individual participation as a civilian or military astronaut, pilot, mission specialist, payload specialist, or other space flight participant in a space flight mission." In practice the medal...
    s (2)
  • AIAA Haley Space Flight Award
  • FAI Komorov 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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private university research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
 (MIT)/Canadian Vestibular experiments on Spacelab
Spacelab

Spacelab was a reusable laboratory flown into space on the Space Shuttle. It allowed scientists to perform experiments in microgravity in Earth orbit....
 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
Space Shuttle

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System , is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions....
 and ISS
International Space Station

The International Space Station is a research facility Assembly of the International Space Station in outer space. On-orbit construction of the station began in 1998, and is scheduled to be complete by 2011, with operations continuing until around 2015....
. They also were the first commercial user of the Mir
Mir

Mir was a Soviet Union orbital station. Mir was the world's first consistently inhabited long-term research station in space, and the first 'third generation' type space station, constructed over a number of years with a Space station#Modular....
 Space Station, flying protein crystal growth experiments to Mir in the early 1990s. He is now President of Zero Gravity Corporation, founded to make parabolic, weightless aircraft flights available to the general public. He was an Air Force fighter pilot for 23 years, flying the F-4
F-4 Phantom II

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a two-seat, twin-engined, all-weather, long-range supersonic interceptor jet fighter/fighter-bomber originally developed for the United States Navy by McDonnell Aircraft....
, F-100
F-100 Super Sabre

The North American Aviation F-100 Super Sabre was a jet engine fighter aircraft that served with the United States Air Force from 1954 to 1971 and with the Air National Guard until 1979....
, and A-10
A-10 Thunderbolt II

The A-10 Thunderbolt II is an United states single-seat, twin-engine, straight-wing jet aircraft developed by Fairchild for the United States Air Force to provide close air support of ground forces by attacking tanks, armored vehicles and other ground targets with a limited air interdiction capability....
. Survived 238 combat missions during the Vietnam War
Vietnam War

The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina Wars, the Vietnam Conflict, or often in Vietnam the American War occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from 1959 to April 30, 1975....
, and received 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, ten Air Medals, and numerous other decorations. He currently flies as a captain for Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines

Southwest Airlines Co. is an American low-cost carrier airline with its largest focus city at Las Vegas, Nevada' McCarran International Airport....
.

Spaceflight experience

Lichtenberg was the first Payload Specialist
Payload Specialist

In NASA vernacular, a 'Payload Specialist' was an individual selected and trained by commercial or research organizations for flights of a specific payload on a Space Shuttle mission....
. He flew on Spacelab-1 (STS-9
STS-9

STS-9 was the 6th mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia It was Columbia's last flight until early January of 1986, STS-61C. It was also the last time the old Space Transportation System numbering was used until STS-26 ....
) mission for ten days in 1983, conducted multiple experiments in life sciences, materials sciences, Earth observations, astronomy
Astronomy

Astronomy is the science of Astronomical object and Phenomenon that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere . It is concerned with the evolution, physics, chemistry, meteorology, and motion of celestial objects, as well as the physical cosmology....
 and solar physics
Solar physics

Solar physics is the study of our Sun. It is a branch of astrophysics that specializes in exploiting and explaining the detailed measurements that are possible only for our closest star....
, upper atmosphere and plasma physics. His second flight was ATLAS-1 (STS-45
STS-45

STS-45 was a 1992 spaceflight using Space Shuttle Atlantis....
) 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.

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