Paul Scully-Power Astronaut

Paul Desmond Scully-Power AM (born May 28, 1944) is an Australian born, American oceanographer. While a civilian employee of the United States Naval Undersea Warfare Center, he flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-41-G as a Payload Specialist. He was the first Australian-born person to journey into space, and the first astronaut with a beard.Scully-Power went on to work in private industry. He is considered a world expert in remote sensing: visible, infra-red, radar and acoustic.

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Paul Scully-Power
Birth dateMay 28, 1944
Birth place
Sydney , Australia
Nationality
United States

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