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March 22, 1996 (59 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
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Celebrities born on July 14
Born in 1936
Born in Lorain, Ohio
Cancer named Robert
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Robert Overmyer
Colonel Robert Franklyn "Bob" Overmyer is an American test pilot, naval pilot, aviation engineer, physicist, Marine officer and astronaut of USAF / NASA. Overmyer was selected by the Air Force as an astronaut for his manned orbital laboratory in 1966. After the program was canceled in 1969, he became a NASA astronaut and served on support missions. crew assistance for the Apollo program, the Skylab program and the Apollo ship - Soyuz test project. In 1976, he was appointed to the Space Shuttle Program and flew as a pilot on the STS-5 in 1982 and took command of the STS-51-B in 1985. He was chosen as the chief space shuttle Challenger disaster investigator and retired from NASA in 1986. Ten years later, Overmyer died in Duluth, Minnesota while testing a Cirrus VK-30.
NationalityAmerican
BornJuly 14, 1936, Lorain, Ohio, U.S.
DiedMarch 22, 1996, Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.
Resting placeArlington National Cemetery
Other namesRobert Franklyn Overmyer
Other occupationNaval aviator, test pilot
Alma materBW, B.S. 1958, NPS, M.S. 1964
RankColonel, USMC
Time in space12d 02h 22m
Selection1966 USAF MOL Group 2, 1969 NASA Group 7
MissionsSTS-5, STS-51-B
RetirementJune 1986

About Robert Overmyer

Astronaut Robert Overmyer was born on July 14, 1936 in Lorain, Ohio, United States (He dies at the age of 59, on March 22, 1996).

Test pilot, astronaut, and principal investigator into the tragedy of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

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Robert Overmyer before becoming famous

Robert Overmyer was born in the Zodiac sign Cancer (The Crab), and 1936 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Rat (鼠).

He was a member of the United States Marine Corps.

Achievement of Robert Overmyer

He flew STS-5, the first Space Shuttle flight with a four-person crew, and was Commander on STS-51-B.

Robert Overmyer's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

With his wife Katherine, he has three children.

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He looked into the Challenger disaster, which claimed the life of Astronaut Francis Scobee.

Francis Scobee (1939 - 1986) (Astronaut)
Francis Scobee (1939 - 1986)

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Robert Overmyer Income & Net worth

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