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Norman Earl Thagard (born July 3, 1943; Capt, USMC, Ret.) is an American scientist and former U.S. Marine Corps officer and naval aviator and NASA astronaut. He is the first American to ride to space on board a Russian vehicle, and can be considered the first American cosmonaut .
Norman Thagard self-experimenting aboard the Space Shuttle. He conducted physiological experiments on personnel during the STS-7 mission. Self-experimentation refers to scientific experimentation in which the experimenter conducts the experiment on themself. Often this means that the designer, operator, subject, analyst, and user or reporter of ...
SPAS-1 was unique in that it was designed to operate in the payload bay or be deployed by the Remote Manipulator System as a free-flying satellite. It carried 10 experiments to study formation of metal alloys in microgravity , the operation of heat pipes, instruments for remote sensing observations, and a mass spectrometer to identify various ...
The shuttle landed at 8:07:17 PST (16:07:17 UTC) on January 30, 1992, on Runway 22, Edwards Air Force Base, California. [1] STS-42 was the first of two flights in 1992 of Discovery , the second of which occurred during STS-53 , which launched on December 2, 1992.
Self-experimentation has a long and well-documented history in medicine which continues to the present day. [ 3 ] For example, after failed attempts to infect piglets in 1984, Barry Marshall drank a petri dish of Helicobacter pylori from a patient, and soon developed gastritis, achlorhydria , stomach discomfort, nausea, vomiting, and halitosis ...
Stat-Ease, Inc. is a privately held company producing statistical software in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, founded by Patrick Whitcomb in 1982.The company has 11 employees and provides software packages for engineers and scientists using design of experiments (DOE) methods for optimizing development of products and processes.
Fabian instead left NASA on January 1, 1986, to become Director of Space, Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans and Operations, Headquarters USAF. [ 1 ] Colonel Fabian retired from the USAF in June 1987 and joined Analytic Services , a non-profit aerospace public service research institute in Arlington, Virginia , where he retired as president and chief ...
Launch of STS-51-B. STS-51-B was the 17th flight of the NASA Space Shuttle program and the seventh flight of Space Shuttle Challenger.The launch of Challenger on April 29, 1985, was delayed by 2 minutes and 18 seconds, due to a launch processing failure.