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October 5, 1993 (66 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Libra
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Celebrities born on October 17
Born in 1926
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio
Libra named Karl
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First name Karl
Karl Gordon Henize
Karl Gordon Henize is an American astronomer, space scientist, NASA astronaut and professor at Northwestern University. He has been stationed at a number of observatories around the world, including the McCormick Observatory, the Lamont-Hussey Observatory, the Mount Wilson Observatory, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Mount Observatory. Stromlo. He is a member of the astronaut support crew for Apollo 15 and Skylab 2, 3 and 4. As a mission specialist on the Spacelab-2 mission, he flew aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in July / August 1985. He was awarded the NASA Medal for Scientific Excellence in 1974. He is deceased. 1993, on an expedition to Mount Everest while testing equipment for NASA.
NationalityAmerican
BornOctober 17, 1926, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
DiedOctober 05, 1993, Mount Everest, Nepal
Other namesKarl Gordon Henize
Other occupationAstronomer, space scientist
Alma materUVA, B.A. 1947, M.A. 1948, UMich, Ph.D. 1954
RankLieutenant commander, USNR
Time in space7d 22h 45min
Selection1967 NASA Group 6
MissionsSTS-51-F
RetirementApril 1986

About Karl Gordon Henize

Astronaut Karl Gordon Henize was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States on October 17, 1926. He dies at the age of 66, on October 5, 1993.

Astronaut and space scientist who served on the Apollo 15 mission for NASA. In a Mount Everest trek, he died.

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Karl Gordon Henize before becoming famous

Karl Gordon Henize was born in the Zodiac sign Libra (The Scales), and 1926 is also the year of Tiger (兎) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He earned his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Virginia before graduating from the University of Michigan with a PhD in astronomy in 1954.

Achievement of Karl Gordon Henize

In 1974, he received the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal.

Karl Gordon Henize's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

In Cincinnati, he grew up on a farm.

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In Director Ron Howard's miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, a figure loosely based on Karl emerged.

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