Career record
Flights
2
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
19d 5h
Career EVA time
under a minute
Spacewalks
0
Biography
Robert Allan Ridley Parker is an American physicist and astronomer, former Director of the NASA Management Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a retired NASA astronaut. He was a Mission Specialist on two Space Shuttle missions, STS-9 and STS-35. He has logged over 3,500 hours flying time in jet aircraft and 463 hours in space.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Launches
- Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-35 — Mission Specialist · Success · December 2, 1990
- Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-9 — Mission Specialist · Success · November 28, 1983
Born 1936-12-14