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Personal: Male, Divorced, Two children. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Bachelor of arts in physics from Williams College, 1961. Master of Arts in Astronomy from Georgetown University, 1964. Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley, 1967. Born January 27, 1940, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: NASA Group 6 - 1967. Inactive Entered space service: 4 August 1967. Left space service: 23 April 1968. Resigned from the astronaut corps after a dispute over the requirement for scientist-astronauts to take part in what he considered unnecessarily dangerous flight training aboard T-38 aircraft.

Worked at Cornell University and CalTech. Later chairman, board of directors, Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space. He later lived in Ecuador.

4 August 1967 - NASA Astronaut Training Group 6 selected.. The group was selected to provide additional scientist-astronauts for Apollo lunar landing and earth-orbit space station missions.. Qualifications: Doctorate in natural sciences, medicine, or engineering. Under 35 years old, under 183 cm height, excellent health. US citizen or willing to become a naturalized citizen.. In response to the poor result of the first scientist-astronaut selection, NASA went ahead with a second round of selections. 923 people applied, of which 69 selected by the National Academy of Sciences for NASA physical and mental evaluation. By the time the new astronauts reported, ambitious Apollo Applications plans had been scrapped, leading to their nickname 'The Excess Eleven'. Seven stayed on through the 1970's and finally got to fly aboard the space shuttle.