Career record
Flights
2
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
19d 4h
Career EVA time
under a minute
Spacewalks
0
Biography
Byron Kurt Lichtenberg, Sc. D. (born February 19, 1948) is an American engineer and fighter pilot who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a Payload Specialist. In 1983, he and Ulf Merbold became the first Payload Specialists to fly on the shuttle.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Launches
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-45 — Payload Specialist · Success · March 24, 1992
- Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-9 — Payload Specialist · Success · November 28, 1983
Born 1948-02-19