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Montana astronaut Loren Acton: How he got from a Lewistown ranch to outer spaceAnd his thoughts on NASA's futureBy: Chris DeRosePosted at 1:09 PM, Jan 07, 2021 and last updated 6:44 PM, Jan 11, 2021
“There were a substantial number of scientists working in the area of physics of the atmosphere of the earth and the magnetosphere. Lockheed, as a major defense contractor with assists in orbit around the earth, benefited from having that kind of scientific expertise on the payroll. So one of the first things I did, being an experimentalist, not a theorist, I sent in proposals to NASA to build and fly instruments into space to study the sun’s output at X-ray wavelengths.”
In 1978, Acton and his Lockheed team won a NASA contract to fly an instrument known as S.O.U.P. - The Solar Optical Univeral Polarimeter- on a spacelab mission to study sun-earth relations. Acton jumped at the chance to go along and run the instrument, but they wouldn’t get off the ground until 1985. In the meantime, Acton enjoyed the status of what he likes to call a “part-time astronaut,” since he wasn’t directly working for NASA.
The Spacelab 2 mission, as it became known, was set to launch on board the Challenger Shuttle in July of 1985, but just before blastoff, something happened.
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Wątek: LW Acton - 07.03.1936 (Przeczytany 130 razy)