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Karol Joseph " Bo " Bobko (December 23, 1937 – August 17, 2023) was an American aerospace engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and a USAF and NASA astronaut. Bobko was the first graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy to travel in space and the first person to fly on a space shuttle on three different missions: STS-6, STS-51-D, STS-51-J .
24 de ago. de 2023 · Karol Bobko, an Air Force pilot who joined NASA as an astronaut in 1969 and then waited 14 years before going into space, piloting the first voyage of the shuttle Challenger nearly three years...
18 de ago. de 2023 · — Karol "Bo" Bobko, who was the only NASA astronaut to fly on the first launch of two space shuttle orbiters, has died at the age of 85. Bobko's death on Thursday (Aug. 17) was confirmed by the Association of Space Explorers, a professional organization for the world's astronauts and cosmonauts.
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22 de may. de 2023 · Commander of STS-6 was Paul J. Weitz, selected in 1966 and a veteran of the 28-day Skylab 2 mission in 1973. Pilot Karol J. Bobko, making his first space flight, was selected in the second group of astronauts for the US Air Force Manned Orbiting Lab (MOL) in 1966 and transferred to NASA in 1969.
Bobko, Karol Joseph 'Bo' Credit: www.spacefacts.de. American pilot astronaut 1966-1989. Status: Inactive; Active 1966-1989. Born: 1937-12-23. Spaceflights: 3 . Total time in space: 16.09 days. Birth Place: New York, New York. Educated USAFA; Caltech. Official NASA Biography as of June 2016:Karol J. Bobko (Colonel, USAF, Ret.)
25 de ago. de 2023 · Karol Bobko, aerospace engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, was the first person to fly three different space shuttle missions, as well as the first pilot of both the Atlantis and the...
