Lawrence James Delucas ( born Lawrence James 'Larry' DeLucas ; born 1950 ) is a physician , chemist , and astronaut in the United States . He made one space flight on the shuttle Columbia under the STS-50 program in 1992.
| Lawrence James Delucas | |
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| Lawrence James 'Larry' DeLucas | |
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| A country |  USA |
| Specialty | physician , chemist , physiologist |
| Expeditions | STS-50 |
| Time in space | 13 days 19 h 30 min |
| Date of Birth | July 11, 1950 (69 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Syracuse , New York USA |
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Personal Information and Education
Lawrence Delukas was born July 11, 1950 in Syracuse , New York , where he graduated from high school in 1968. In 1972, received a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from the University of Alabama , in the city of Birmingham . In the same University, in 1974, he received a master 's degree in chemistry, in 1979 - a bachelor in physics and optics, in 1981 - a doctor of sciences in optometry, 1982 - a doctor of sciences in biochemistry .
Married to Katherine Elizabeth Gester, they have three children: son Robert Laurens (born April 21, 1981), son John Stephen (born May 19, 1987) and daughter Katherine Bonfield (born March 08, 1983). Interests: basketball , scuba diving ( diving ), airplane modeling, astronomy and reading . [1] .
Before NASA
Since 1983, a consultant to the World Cancer Center (at the University of Alabama), since 1984 - professor of materials science, since 1989 - a medical researcher at the World Cancer Center, since 1988 - has been hired by NASA for consultations, since 1990 - member of the NASA Scientific Advisory Council according to the experiment to determine the rate of growth of protein crystals, since 1990 - Professor of the Laboratory of Medical Genetics [2] .
Space Flight Training
On August 6, 1990, he was drafted into a group of four applicants to take part in a shuttle flight with the SpaceLab laboratory under the American Microgravity Laboratory-1 program. On May 2, 1991, the Columbia shuttle STS-50 , a payload specialist , was assigned to fly.
Space Flight
- The first flight - STS-50 [3] , the shuttle Columbia . The flight took place from June 25 to July 9, 1992, Lawrence Delukas participated in it as a payload specialist. The purpose of the flight is to conduct various physical and biomedical experiments. The studies were carried out in the laboratory “ SpaceSlab ” module in the cargo compartment of the ship. Crystal growing experiments were conducted in a special reusable setup (Crystal Growth Furnace, CGF) to study crystalline growth in zero gravity. This furnace is capable of automatically processing up to six large samples at temperatures up to 1,600 degrees Celsius. Investigations into Polymer Membrane Processing (IPMP) studies, which were previously carried out in six shuttle flights, have revealed their qualities that can be used to improve or use them as biofilters in biomedical and industrial processes. The flight duration was 13 days 19 hours 30 minutes (the longest shuttle flight at that time) [4] .
The total duration of space flights is 13 days 19 hours 30 minutes.
Publications
Delukas has published more than 60 scientific articles in refereed scientific journals, is a co-author of 2 books and co-author of 3 patents.
After flying
Delucas continues to work and teach at the University of Alabama in Birmingham: he is a professor in the Department of Optometry, and a deputy director of the Center for Macromolecule Crystallography at the University.
Awards and Prizes
Awarded: Medal "For Space Flight" (1992).
See also
- List of astronauts and astronauts (and candidates) .
- List of US astronauts - participants in orbiting space flights .
- Timeline of manned spaceflight .
Notes
- ↑ Biography of Lawrence J. DeLucas
- ↑ http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/clifford.html Biography of Lawrence J. DeLucas]
- ↑ NASA - NSSDC - Spacecraft - Details
- ↑ NASA - STS-50