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National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, Texas 77058 |
Biographical Data |
JOHN M. "MIKE" LOUNGE
NASA ASTRONAUT (DECEASED)
PERSONAL DATA:€а Born June 28, 1946, in Denver, Colorado, but considered Burlington, Colorado, to be his hometown.€а Died March 1, 2011 at the age of 64.€а Married. Three children.€а His recreational interests included jogging, chess, squash, tennis, flying, golfing, and blue grass guitar.
EDUCATION:€а Graduated from Burlington High School, Burlington, Colorado, in 1964; received a bachelor of science degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1969 and a master of science degree in Astrogeophysics from the University of Colorado in 1970.
ORGANIZATIONS: Associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
SPECIAL HONORS:€а Six Navy Air Medals,€а three Navy Commendation Medals (with Combat "V"), the JSC Superior Achievement Award (for service as a member of the Skylab Reentry Team), three NASA Exceptional Service Medals and three NASA Space Flight Medals.
EXPERIENCE:€а Lounge entered on active duty with the United States Navy following graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy and spent the next nine years in a variety of assignments.€а He completed Naval flight officer training at Pensacola, Florida, went on to advanced training as a radar intercept officer in the F-4J Phantom, and subsequently reported to Fighter Squadron 142 based at Naval Air Station Miramar, California.€а While with VF-142, he completed a 9-month Southeast Asia cruise aboard the USS ENTERPRISE (participating in 99 combat missions) and a 7-month Mediterranean cruise aboard the USS AMERICA.€а In 1974, he returned to the U.S. Naval Academy as an instructor in the Physics Department.€а Lounge transferred to the Navy Space Project Office in Washington, D.C., in 1976, for a 2-year tour as a staff project office.€а He resigned his regular United States Navy commission in 1978.
NASA EXPERIENCE:€а Mr. Lounge has been employed at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center since July 1978.€а During this time, he worked as lead engineer for Space Shuttle launched satellites, and also served as a member of the Skylab Re-entry Flight Control Team.€а He completed these assignments while with the Payload Operations Division.
Selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in 1980, he completed a 1 year training and evaluation period, and became an astronaut in August 1981.€а He served as a member of the launch support team at Kennedy Space Center for the STS-1, STS-2, and STS-3 missions.€а Following his first flight, he was assigned to the first mission to carry the Centaur (cryogenically fueled) upper stage (STS-61F).€а After the mission was canceled, he participated in Space Station design development.€а From 1989 through 1991, Mr. Lounge served as Chief of the Space Station Support Office, representing astronaut interests in Space Station design and operation planning.
A veteran of three space flights, Mike Lounge logged more than 482 hours in space.€а He was a mission specialist on STS-51I (August 27 to September 3, 1985) and STS-26 (September 29 to October 3, 1988) and was the flight engineer on STS-35 (December 2 to December 10, 1990).
Mr. Lounge resigned from NASA in June 1991.€а He went on to become Director of Space Shuttle and Space Station Program Development for Boeing тАУ NASA Systems.
SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE:€а STS-51I Discovery, launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 27, 1985.€а During that mission, LoungeтАЩs duties included deployment of the Australian AUSSAT communications satellite and operation of the Remote Manipulator System (RMS).€а The crew deployed two other communications satellites, the Navy's SYNCOM IV-4, and American Satellite Company's ASC-1, and also performed a successful on-orbit rendezvous and repair of the ailing 15,400 lb SYNCOM IV-3 satellite.€а STS-51I completed 112 orbits of the Earth before landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on September 3, 1985.€а Mission duration was 171 hours, 17 minutes, 42 seconds.
STS-35 Columbia, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on December 2, 1990.€а Lounge served as flight engineer on this 9-day flight that was dedicated to astronomy.€а Very exciting observations of the Universe were collected by the ASTRO-1 ultraviolet telescope and by the Broad Band X-Ray Telescope.€а Columbia completed 142 orbits of the Earth before landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on December 10, 1990.€а Mission duration was 215 hours, 5 minutes, 8 seconds.
MARCH 2011