John McCreary Fabian (1939-2026)

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John McCreary Fabian (28.01.1939-21.05.2026)

John McCreary Fabian został wyselekcjonowany w ramach NASA grupa 8

120. człowiek w kosmosie.

Odbył 2 loty kosmiczne, które trwały łącznie 13d 04h 02m 59s:

18.06.1983-24.06.1983 STS-7 Challenger/F-2 006:02:24:07
17.06.1985-24.06.1985 STS-51G Discovery/F-5 007:01:38:52

Wchodził w skład 1-ej załogi, której członkowie pochodzili z naboru przeprowadzonego w 1978 roku.

Jeden z byłych astronautów o polskich korzeniach
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=140.msg185303#msg185303

Został pierwszą osobą, która rozmieściła z pokładu statku kosmicznego satelitę oraz dokonała jego odzyskania.





28.01.1939 urodził się w Goosecreek w Teksasie.

1957 ukończył szkołę średnią Pullman High School.

1962 ukończył Washington State University, uzyskując tytuł licencjata z inżynierii mechanicznej.

1964 uzyskał tytuł magistra inżynierii lotniczej w Air Force Institute of Technology.


https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/fabian_john.pdf

http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/fabian_john.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/f/fabian.html
https://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/f/fabian-j.php

https://mek.kosmo.cz/bio/usa/00120.htm
https://www.kozmo-data.sk/kozmonauti/fabian-john-mccreary.html
https://www.astronaut.ru/crossroad/120.htm
https://www.april12.eu/usaastron/fabian120ru.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Fabian
https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCreary_Fabian
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fabian

https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/FabianJM/FabianJM_2-10-06.htm
https://magazine.wsu.edu/web-extra/space-cougs/

28 janvier
Bon anniversaire (85) à John M. Fabian🎂🎂🎂
(2 vols : STS-7 et STS-51G soit 13 jours 04 heures 03 minutes dans l'espace)

https://twitter.com/spacemen1969/status/1751501612122776000

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Interesujący artykuł o rezygnacjach astronautów.

Astronauts' Resignations On the Rise
By Thomas O'TooleOctober 28, 1985

When veteran astronaut John M. Fabian won his third shuttle assignment five months ago, he was ecstatic. His new assignment put him on the crew of the first space shuttle carrying a cargo destined for another planet, Jupiter, in May 1986.

But two months later, Fabian gave up his mission and resigned from the astronaut corps. The job, he said, was putting too much pressure on his family life.

Fabian's was the eighth astronaut resignation in the last 16 months, a sign that perhaps all is not well in the corps. At the least, the resignations suggest that the workaholic way of life that is the hallmark of astronaut service may have begun to rub away some of the glamor.

Fabian's abrupt and unexpected resignation shocked the corps, whose spirit and solidarity are said to be second to none.

"A person can only continue to be an astronaut a certain length of time and that's it," said Fabian, an Air Force colonel and seven-year veteran astronaut. "So I came home one night and told my wife, 'I put the job first for 24 years, and I'm not doing it any more. I quit.'

"There's a payoff to astronauts working 16-hour days, six or seven days a week, and that is they get to fly in space," Fabian said. "Their families don't get that payoff. All they see are the missed dinners and the trips out of town to Cape Canaveral or some contractor's factory in California."

The spurt of resignations is considered a "wave" in the astronaut corps, where one resignation a year has been an average for the last 20 years.

Besides Fabian, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the last 16 months has lost Joseph P. Allen; Terry Hart; William Lenoir; Jack Lousma; Thomas K. Mattingly; Donald Peterson and Richard Truly. All eight were veterans in the prime of their careers and whose combined experience covered 12 of the 21 shuttle missions flown so far.

"Are these resignations something we worry about? Yes, especially the younger ones like Allen 45 and Fabian 44 , who still have a lot of tread left on them," NASA Administrator James M. Beggs said in an interview. "We've now begun to lose the guys we've educated and trained to do the most difficult things we do, like spacewalks, and if this trend starts to increase, it's going to disturb me."

Fabian, explaining his family pressures, said his son just graduated from the Air Force Academy and his daughter started college this fall in upstate New York, leaving his wife home alone for the first time in years.

"I came home one night and my wife told me, 'I'm ready to move out of Houston this year, and I hope you are ready to move with me.' I got the message," Fabian said, "and when I came home in July after an eight-day trip to France with the rest of the crew from my last mission, I decided it was time to leave Houston."

Joe Allen's story is similar, though he stayed in Houston to work with a firm called Space Industries Inc. when he quit the astronaut service six months ago. "My wife kept saying one thing to me, over and over again: 'Joe, when are you going to get a real job?' "

Stripped of its glamor, astronaut service is demanding work that keeps its members away from home. One female astronaut, who just began training for a flight late next year, said she has seen her husband twice in the last two months. "The last time it was for 12 hours," she said, "and for six of those we were both asleep."

Astronaut training ranges from studying the physics and biology of space flight to making parachute jumps and three-day survival visits to the jungle of Panama. Classroom hours match the time PhD candidates spend at study. Physical fitness is a must, but astronauts don't get time off for exercise. They must do it on their own time.

Once an astronaut is assigned a mission, the training pace steps up. At Houston's Johnson Space Center and Florida's Kennedy Space Center, there are around-the-clock computer simulations of astronaut tasks and potential problems in space. Astronauts also visit other NASA centers and contractors' factories to become familiar with the equipment they will use on their missions.

"I remember finishing my last flight in June and starting training for my next flight the next day," Fabian said. "Our first assignment was a trip to California to be briefed on the Galileo spacecraft we were going to carry on the shuttle."

NASA officials said there is nothing they can do to slow the training pace, mostly because they believe it is the reason the United States has never had a fatal accident in space. NASA Administrator Beggs indicated that the way to keep astronauts happy and in the corps is to keep them busy and assigned to a mission.

But that didn't stop John Fabian from leaving. "I'll miss flying and I'll miss the people, but I don't want to be known to posterity as the oldest astronaut to fly in space," he said. "It's time to move on to another life."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/10/28/astronauts-resignations-on-the-rise/057f2019-21d8-4fc9-84de-870949094e0c/

Challenger astronaut John Fabian, at home paying bills after...
By BRUCE NICHOLS JUNE 25, 1983

James Harrington, a NASA official at Edwards, said one of the shuttle's four landing gear brakes broke after landing and about 25 insulation tiles were damaged. He said the tile damage would be easy to repair, but he said it was not known if the brake problem would affect preparations for the next launch in August.

The photographs of Challenger in space were taken from the West German SPAS satellite that Fabian and Ms. Ride launched and later retrieved using the shuttle's 50-foot robot arm. Television relayed from Challenger Wednesday provided a preview, but Fabian said the 70mm still pictures and 16mm motion picture film to be released in a few days should be breathtaking.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/06/25/Challenger-astronaut-John-Fabian-at-home-paying-bills-after/2180425361600/

Simulated Flights Prepare Crew for the Real Thing
By Susan OkieMay 11, 1983

A faint, eerie light illuminated the flight deck of the space shuttle simulator in Building 5 at the Johnson Space Center, where the five future crew members of the shuttle's seventh flight were practicing launching satellites.

Astronaut John Fabian sat in the commander's seat, in the left-front corner of the cockpit, checking data displayed on a computer screen against a checklist of procedures in a flight manual. Beside him, pilot Rick Hauck stared out the front window into the void.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/05/11/simulated-flights-prepare-crew-for-the-real-thing/fe5c5533-07a1-4731-bb1c-09e72a773f87/


Sally Ride and three of her STS-7 crewmates take a break from simulations in the Johnson Space Center's Mission Simulation and Training Facility to pose for a NASA photographer.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/sts-7-crew-training/

The space shuttle; NEWLN: Astronaut John Fabian, the shuttle arm operator is a stamp collector
By BRUCE NICHOLS  JUNE 13, 1983
   
SPACE CENTER, Houston -- Air Force Col. John Fabian, a mission specialist on the seventh space shuttle flight, figured for years that he was too tall or had too little education or flight experience to become an astronaut.

'When they started picking crew members, they picked test pilots, short, bright test pilots. I wasn't any of those things,' joked Fabian. 'I was an observer, an interested observer.' (...)
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/06/13/The-space-shuttleNEWLNAstronaut-John-Fabian-the-shuttle-arm-operator-is-a-stamp-collector/1138424324800/
https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1619425185714606080

Association of Space Explorers @ASE_Astronauts 10:00 PM · Jan 28, 2024
#ASEspotlight: John Fabian 💫
In June 1983, ASE Life Member Fabian gazed out of an overhead window aboard Space Shuttle Challenger during STS-7.
Fun fact: He enjoys skiing!
Happy 85th birthday, John! 🎉

https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1751711948217950365

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Zmarł bezpośrednio, z uczestników lotów kosmicznych, po pilocie STS-7.
Prawie 3 lata temu zmarł inny astronauta o polskich korzeniach, który pilotował wahadłowiec w poprzedniej misji.

NASA Astronaut John Fabian at Kennedy Space Center previewing the last Shuttle mission. July 2011

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MJ-6aaMEals

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
 28.12.2024 ·
John Fabian is our Astronaut of the Day until January 1! 👨‍🚀
💫 Stop by to hear about his 2️⃣ space shuttle missions.
Explore more 💻: https://tinyurl.com/5febthfw

https://www.facebook.com/KennedySpaceCenterVisitorComplex/posts/john-fabian-is-our-astronaut-of-the-day-until-january-1

Association of Space Explorers @ASE_Astronauts 6:30 PM · May 22, 2026
In Memoriam: ASE Distinguished Member John Fabian
January 28, 1939 - May 21, 2026

https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/2057861685629575584

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John Fabian

“It’s all about the derivative”

During that time, astronauts are subjected to a maximum of three G-force.

“It’s all about the derivative,” says Astronaut John Fabian, (’62,BS ME) “When there is a high rate of change, there is an increased likelihood of hazard.”

Those who go to space have to be smart, not risk averse, and lucky.

“There are people who are risk crazy, and astronauts are never part of that,” says Fabian. “They want to minimize the risk and have no surprises. They will manage risk and determine what part they’re willing to accept.”

WSU was a keystone

Fabian, who grew up in Pullman, first became interested in flying as a high school student. He started learning about supersonic jets, which had just surpassed speeds of 1000 miles per hour for the first time. “It was the beginning of the supersonic age, and, it just grabbed me,” he says.

With an interest in the aerospace field, he entered WSU’s mechanical engineering program in 1957. He received a scholarship, but he still worked three jobs to put himself through school. The challenge of supporting himself made it difficult to maintain top grades during those years, he remembers, and, unlike today, the education that he received was not exactly intended to inspire.

Instead, he had solid courses in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and structures. (...)
https://vcea.wsu.edu/aerospace/fabian/

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Autograf astronauty.

John Fabian NASA Astronaut STS Space US Air Force Signed Autograph FDC
https://www.hollywoodmemorabilia.com/en/nasa/john-fabian-nasa-astronaut-sts-space-us-air-force-signed-autograph

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