Byron K. Lichtenberg Astronaut

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 first Payload Specialists to fly on the shuttle.

Personal facts

Byron K. Lichtenberg
Birth dateFebruary 19, 1948
Birth place
Pennsylvania , Stroudsburg Pennsylvania
Nationality
United States

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Astronaut

missions
STS-45
STS-9
Time in space19 days 5 hours 56 minutes

Byron K. Lichtenberg on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/lichtenberg-bk.html
  2. http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/lichtenberg_byron.htm