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Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Goosecreek, Texas, USA.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: NASA Group 8 - 1978. Inactive Entered space service: 16 January 1978. Left space service: 31 December 1985. Number of Flights: 2.00. Total Time: 13.17 days.

NAME: John McCreary Fabian

BIRTHPLACE AND DATE: Fabian was born on January 28, 1939 in Goosecreek, Texas.

EDUCATION: Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Washington State University in 1962. Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the United States Air Force Institute of Technology in 1964. Doctorate in astronautics and aeronautics from the University of Washington in 1974.

EXPERIENCE: An Air Force officer from 1962, Fabian was a fighter pilot in the Vietnam War. He logged over 4,000 hours of flight time. Fabian was selected in 1978 as a NASA astronaut in the first space shuttle astronaut group. He completed astronaut training in 1979,. Qualified as a mission specialist, Fabian worked on satellite deployment and retrieval techniques and equipment, including development of the Shuttle's Remote Manipulator System robot arm.

Fabian's first space mission was on the space shuttle Challenger, June 18 to 24, 1983. During this flight he helped deploy two satellites from Canada and Indonesia. During his second mission, aboard the shuttle Discovery, June 17 to 24, 1985, the crew deployed three communications satellites, and deployed and retrieved the SPARTAN-1 X-ray astronomy satellite

In 1986 Fabian left NASA to become Director of Space at U.S. Air Force Headquarters. He retired from the Air Force in 1987 to become President and Chief Executive Officer at ANSER (Analytic Services, Inc.), a nonprofit aerospace professional services organization in Arlington, Virginia.

• 18 June 1983 Flight: STS-7. Flight Up: STS-7. Flight Back: STS-7. Flight Time: 6.10 days.

• 17 June 1985 Flight: STS-51-G. Flight Up: STS-51-G. Flight Back: STS-51-G. Flight Time: 7.07 days.

16 January 1978 - NASA Astronaut Training Group 8 selected.. The group was selected to provide pilot, engineer, and scientist astronauts for space shuttle flights. Recruit women and minorities to introduce diversity into the astronaut corps. Qualifications: Pilots: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics. Advanced degree desirable. At least 1,000 flight-hours of pilot-in-command time. Flight test experience desirable. Excellent health. Vision minimum 20/50 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20 vision; maximum sitting blood pressure 140/90. Height between 163 and 193 cm.

Mission Specialists: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics and minimum three years of related experience or an advanced degree. Vision minimum 20/150 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20. Maximum sitting blood pressure of 140/90. Height between 150 and 193 cm.. 8,079 applicants, of which half met the basic qualifications. 208 invited for physical tests and interviews. Of the 35 selected, six were women, three were male African-Americans, and one was a male Asian-American.