Bachelor of science in aeronautics from the
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, 1973; master of science in aeronautical
engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, 1974; Commander,
USN, Ret.;
selected in 1979 for
MSE group 1, trained as
USAF
observer for mission
STS-41C, before the
USAF
decided not to place an observer on this mission (late fall of 1983); his
participation in the
STS-41C preparations was curtailed at about
the same time; he was never officially assigned as a payload specialist, or
observer, for mission
STS-41C; later Hughes Aircraft, Tucson,
Arizona.
