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William Edgar Thornton (April 14, 1929 – January 11, 2021) was an American NASA astronaut. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from University of North Carolina and a doctorate in medicine, also from UNC. He flew on Challenger twice, the STS-8 and STS-51-B missions.
Astronaut Commander Richard H. Truly Second and last spaceflight Pilot Daniel Brandenstein First spaceflight Mission Specialist 1 Guion Bluford First spaceflight Mission Specialist 2 Flight Engineer Dale Gardner First spaceflight Mission Specialist 3 William E. Thornton First spaceflight
The NASA Astronaut Corps is a unit of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration ... William Thornton – STS-8, STS-51-B; Pierre Thuot – STS ...
Kathryn Ryan Cordell Thornton (born August 17, 1952) is an American scientist and a former NASA astronaut with over 975 hours in space, including 21 hours of extravehicular activity. [1] She was the associate dean for graduate programs at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, currently a professor of mechanical ...
William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was ...
William E. Thornton (1929–2021), American astronaut William J. Thornton (1878–1951), American businessman and politician William L. Thornton (1844–1915), New York politician and judge
(Reuters) -Retired astronaut William Anders, who was one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, capturing the famed "Earthrise" photo during NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968, died on Friday ...
Billy Bob Thornton didn’t have to look far for inspiration to play his character in Taylor Sheridan’s new high-stakes drama Landman.. During a screening of the Paramount+ series in Nashville ...