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Biography
Stephen Douglas Thorne was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot and a NASA astronaut candidate. He was born on February 11, 1953, in Frankfurt, West Germany, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1975. He was a Navy fighter pilot from 1976 until he became a test pilot in 1981. He was accepted for NASA astronaut training in June 1985, but died in an airplane accident where he was a passenger on May 24, 1986.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Background
- Born in
- Frankfurt
- Education
- United States Naval Academy; United States Naval Test Pilot School; T.L. Hanna High School
- Awards
- Commendation Medal
From Wikidata.
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Born 1953-02-11 · died 1986-05-24, aged 33