Flight record
2 flights on padside's record, flying from 1983 to 1985.
2Flights
13d 1hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
William Edgar Thornton is a former NASA astronaut.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Background
- Born in
- Faison
- Education
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
From Wikidata.
Flights
- Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-51-BApril 29, 1985
- Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-8August 30, 1983
Born 1929-04-14 · died 2020-01-14, aged 90