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- Birth nameByron Kurt Lichtenberg
- Byron K. Lichtenberg was born on February 19, 1948 in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
- SpouseTamara Lichtenberg (5 children)
- Lichtenberg was the first Payload specialist. He flew on the Spacelab-1 (STS-9) mission (10 days in 1983), conducted multiple experiments in life sciences, materials sciences, Earth observations, astronomy and solar physics, upper atmosphere and plasma physics. His second flight was ATLAS-1 (STS-45) Spacelab mission (9 days in 1992); conducted 13 experiments in Atmospheric sciences and astronomy. He has flown 310 orbits, and has logged 468 hours in space.
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