Jack Robert Lousma obchodzi 87. urodziny.
Wszystkiego najlepszego
Jest 63. astronautą na świecie.
Obecnie jest jednym z dwóch żyjących astronautów, którzy po zakończeniu amerykańskich lotów kosmicznych w połowie lat 70. XX wieku, ponownie wzięli udział w lotach kosmicznych w programie STS ( 4. innych już nie żyje).
Jack Lousma jest obecnie także jednym z trzech żyjących uczestników lotów kosmicznych, którzy odbyli misje w programie Skylab.
Uczestniczył w 2. lotach kosmicznych o łącznym nalocie wynoszącym 67d 11g 13m 49s.
Odbył 2 spacery kosmiczne o łącznym czasie trwania wynoszącym 11g 02m.
Misja Skylab SL 3 była wówczas rekordowa (59:11:09:04).
SOS
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=5242.0AA
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=3712.msg133927#msg133927Dowodził 3. testowym lotem wahadłowca w misji STS-3 Columbia, która wówczas również była najdłuższa w programie STS (8:00:04:45).
Było to także jedyne lądowanie wahadłowca w White Sands.
KHW
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=800.msg172748#msg172748Podstawowe informacje dotyczące astronauty i jego lotów kosmicznych:
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https://aadl.org/taxonomy/term/8492Meet Astronaut Jack LousmaMar 30, 2023 - Apr 02, 2023
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/2023/march/meet-astronaut-jack-lousmahttps://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/LousmaJR/LousmaJR_3-15-10.htmhttp://marklarson.com/colonel_lousma/index.htmlhttps://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/jack-robert-lousma/https://www.nmspacemuseum.org/inductee/jack-r-lousma/https://www.texasheart.org/education/continuing-medical-education/past-symposia/perfusion-conference-2020/2019-perfusion-conference/WP
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=5004.msg182089#msg182089Skylab The Second Manned Mission - A Scientific Harvest (1974)HOP596 COL Jack Lousma NASA AstronauntJack Lousma Interview Part 1Gary Fildes Interviews Jack Lousma Part 2MEN IN THE NEWS: JACK R. LOUSMAMarch 23, 1982
''= I CONSIDER everything I've done for the last 20 years as training for this flight,'' Col. Jack R. Lousma of the Marine Corps said a few weeks before climbing into the space shuttle Columbia as commander of its third test mission.
For Colonel Lousma, ''everything'' includes the following:
- He has logged more than 3,600 hours in high-performance jet aircraft. He earned his wings as a marine pilot in 1960 and was assigned to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as an astronaut in 1966.
- Colonel Lousma trained as a member of support crews for three of the Apollo lunar missions and as a backup pilot for the Apollo spacecraft that linked up with a Soviet Soyuz craft in 1975.
- He orbited the earth 858 times in 1973, for a total of 24 million miles, as a member of the second crew to occupy the Skylab space station. During the mission, he spent 11 hours in two separate space walks outside the Skylab.
- Since 1978 he has worked to familiarize himself with the space shuttle. He and his co-pilot, Col. C. Gordon Fullerton of the Air Force, spent more than 1,000 hours training in the computerized shuttle simulator. A Demanding Mission
It is therefore not surprising that Colonel Lousma exuded a sense of readiness and command as he went through the final days of preparations for the launching. He acknowledged that the shuttle was a more complex and challenging vehicle to fly than was Apollo, and that the current mission was the most demanding so far. But he was just happy to be going back into space after a nine-year wait.
At the age of 46, Jack Robert Lousma (pronounced as in ''loud'') is a sturdy six feet tall and 195 pounds with thinning light brown hair. He was born on a leap year day, Feb. 29, 1936, in Grand Rapids, Mich. His father, Jacob Louwsma, who died early this month, dropped the ''W'' on his son's birth certificate to make it easier to spell.
At the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Colonel Lousma studied aeronautical engineering and earned a letter in football in his sophomore year, before being sidelined by an elbow injury. While in college, he married Gratia Kay Smeltzer, a classmate at Ann Arbor High School. They have four children, Timothy, 18, Matthew, 15, Mary, 13, and Joseph, 1 1/2. The Lousmas live near the Johnson Space Center at the edge of Houston.
His career has brought him many honors, including an honorary doctorate from his alma mater and two of the most prestigious aerospace awards, the Robert J. Collier Trophy for 1973 and the Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy for 1975.
Colonel Lousma has had little time lately for the golfing and hunting he enjoys so much. ''I've never broken 80,'' he said of his golf game. His few bird-hunting trips these days are with his two older sons. ''It's a good father-son opportunity,'' he says. There has been even less time for casual reading, mostly historical novels. Tom Wolfe's ''The Right Stuff'' was the last nontechnical book he recalls reading. Strong Influence of Religion
Jack Lousma is a deeply religious man. He is a member of the Officer's Christian Fellowship and is active in a nondenominational evangelical Bible church in Houston. ''I have a strong faith,'' he said. ''I believe that a person can have a personal relationship with God, that He can make a difference in one's life.''
When this mission is over, Colonel Lousma said, he intends to ''sign up again'' for another flight and ''see what happens.'' But if this should prove to be his last mission, he believes that he could adjust quickly to an earthbound life.
''My life would not fall apart if I wasn't able to fly anymore,'' he said. ''I have a lot of outside interests. I like to build things. I built a garage and converted a garage into a room for the house. I even built a house one time. I could be happy in the construction business, if there was one right now. But I would probably be involved in aviation somehow.''https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/23/science/men-in-the-news-jack-r-lousma.htmlASTRONAUT TRAILS MICHIGAN SENATORBy James Barron Oct. 18, 1984
When Jack R. Lousma, Michigan's Republican nominee for the Senate, began campaigning against Senator Carl Levin, the Democratic incumbent, Republican strategists hoped he could capitalize on his career as an astronaut and on President Reagan's apparent popularity among union members.
But less than a month before the election, Mr. Lousma's attacks on big government, high taxes and Mr. Levin's voting record do not appear to have caught on. Statewide polls indicate he is trailing Senator Levin, who in his six years in Washington has been a critic of the B-1 bomber, the MX missile system and high costs for spare parts of weapons.
Last month, for example, in a poll by The Detroit News, Senator Levin was leading Mr. Lousma by 40 percentage points, 62 percent to 22 percent. In addition, 48 percent of those questioned said they did not know enough about the Republican candidate to make a decision.
Mr. Levin's campaign has been less strident than Mr. Lousma's. Typically, the 50-year-old Senator has told voters that while he sees waste in many Federal programs, cuts in social programs should not be made recklessly. He has said that the deregulation of natural gas, which Mr. Lousma favors, would mean higher prices for consumers. Taxes as the Central Issue
''I don't think I'm a knee-jerk anything,'' Mr. Levin said. Referring to his opponent, he added: ''I believe in the idea that government can make a difference for people, but I see waste. I don't think he understands the people of Michigan or their needs.''
Mr. Lousma has made taxes the central issue of the campaign, promising not to vote for any tax increases ''except in case of national emergency'' and casting Mr. Levin as someone ''who's always for higher taxes.''
Mr. Levin contends that Mr. Lousma's pledge is ''unrealistic'' and that Walter F. Mondale, the Democratic Presidential nominee, did not propose enough spending cuts in his tax plan.
Mr. Levin was an early supporter of an amendment sponsored by Senator Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina to freeze Federal discretionary spending and limit the growth of the military budget. The measure would have delayed the final year of Mr. Reagan's three-year tax cut and postponed a formula for tax rates that the Republicans say will protect taxpayers from being pushed into higher brackets by inflation. ''I did that because I thought the Administration tax cut bill would open a huge deficit, which it has,'' Mr. Levin said. An Appeal to Business Groups
At the same time, the Senator has been wooing business groups, which might otherwise favor Mr. Lousma. On what Mr. Levin's aides described as a typical day of campaigning last week, one stop was at a Chamber of Commerce and two others were at state trade associations. In each speech, Mr. Levin was careful to remind his audience that he had helped shape the billion-dollar loan guarantees for the Chrysler Corporation in 1979.
The two candidates are handling the Presidential race differently. Mr. Lousma talks about Mr. Reagan frequently. But in a swing through the Detroit suburbs and Lansing, the state capital, Mr. Levin did not mention Mr. Mondale. The Senator has said the former Vice President's chances against Mr. Reagan in Michigan are slim.
Mr. Lousma, a former Marine Corps colonel who commanded the space shuttle Columbia's third flight in 1982 and piloted Skylab 3 in 1976, acknowledged last week that he was running ''an underdog campaign.'' He recently pared his campaign staff from 20 people to 12, leaving some campaign chores to volunteers from the state Reagan-Bush organization.
Mr. Lousma began campaigning in January, moving from Texas to Ann Arbor. He had the support of the small but increasingly important conservative faction of the Michigan Republican Party. Dismay Over Remark on Issues
Mr. Lousma was new to campaigning, and some Michigan voters were dismayed when an Ann Arbor newspaper quoted him last March as saying, ''An average high school boy could sit down and with three hours of briefings could know all you'd want him to know about issues in Michigan.''
Now he is relying on television commercials whose basic message is that he and Mr. Levin disagree on most of the major issues in the campaign, such as Michigan's economic development. Both candidates say the state's future depends on reorienting its depressed industrial economy, but they disagree on the role the Federal Government should play.
Mr. Lousma says his commercials are bringing new credibility to his candidacy and contributions to his campaign chest, which ran low on cash in August and September. This month he has sharpened his attacks, accusing Mr. Levin of ''smoke-screening his record'' in Washington and of being ''ineffective for Michigan.''
Mr. Levin describes himself as ''a Midwestern progressive'' and disputes his opponent's contention that he has done too little for Michigan. Both men say the state could benefit from more military contracts, with Mr. Lousma contending that his background makes him the logical choice to deal with the Defense Department.https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/18/us/astronaut-trails-michigan-senator.html---
CCK
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Wątek: JR Lousma - 29.02.1936 (Przeczytany 1889 razy)