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Jack Lousma
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Jack Lousma |
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Born on: |
29 Feb 1936 |
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Join NASA in: |
4 Apr 1966 |
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Current status: |
Retired 1 Oct 1983 |
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Spaceflight |
Position |
Date |
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Skylab 3 |
Pilot |
28.07. - 25.09.1973 |
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STS 3 |
Cmdr |
22.03. - 30.03.1982 |
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Spaceflight experience: |
Jack Lousma is one of the 19
astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He served as a
member of the astronaut support crews for the Apollo 9,
10, and 13 missions. He was the pilot for Skylab-3 (July
28 to September 25, 1973) and was spacecraft commander on
STS-3 (March 22-30, 1982), logging a total of over 1,619
hours in space. Lousma also spent 11 hours on two
spacewalks outside the Skylab space station. He also
served as backup docking module pilot of the United States
flight crew for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP)
mission which was completed successfully in July 1975.
Skylab-3 (SL-3) (July 28 to September 25, 1973). The crew
on this 59-1/2 day flight included Alan Bean (spacecraft
commander), Jack Lousma (pilot), and Owen Garriott (science-pilot).
SL-3 accomplished 150% of mission goals while completing
858 revolutions of the earth and traveling some 24,400,000
miles in earth orbit. The crew installed six replacement
rate gyros used for attitude control of the spacecraft and
a twin-pole sun-shade used for thermal control, and they
repaired nine major experiment or operational equipment
items. They devoted 305 man hours to extensive solar
observations from above the earth's atmosphere, which
included viewing two major solar flares and numerous
smaller flares and coronal transients. Also acquired and
returned to earth were 16,000 photographs and 18 miles of
magnetic tape documenting earth resources observations.
The crew completed 333 medical experiment performances and
obtained valuable data on the effects of extended
weightlessness on humans. Skylab-3 ended with a Pacific
Ocean splashdown and recovery by the USS NEW ORLEANS.
STS-3, the third orbital test flight of space shuttle
Columbia, launched from the Kennedy Space Center,
Florida, on March 22, 1982, into a 180-mile circular orbit
above the earth. Jack Lousma was the spacecraft commander
and C. Gordon Fullerton was the pilot on this 8-day
mission. Major flight test objectives included exposing
the Columbia to extremes in thermal stress and the
first use of the 50-foot remote manipulator system (RMS)
to grapple and maneuver a payload in space. The crew also
operated several scientific experiments in the orbiter's
cabin and on the OSS-1 pallet in the payload bay. Space
Shuttle Columbia responded favorably to the thermal
tests and was found to be better than expected as a
scientific platform. The crew accomplished almost 100% of
the objectives assigned to STS-3, and after a 1-day delay
due to bad weather, landed on the lakebed at White Sands,
New Mexico, on March 30,1982, having traveled 3.4 million
miles during 129.9 orbits of the earth. Mission duration
was 192 hours, 4 minutes, 49 seconds.
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