space@ucbvax.UUCP (01/31/86)
Washington Post 1/29/86
Profiles Of Crew Members
Of Space Shuttle Challenger
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HOUSTON - The crew of Challenger included three trained pilots, an expert
on lasers, the second American woman to fly in space, a Hughes Aircraft Corp.
engineer and a Concord, N.H., school teacher flying as the first
citizen-in-space.
Francis R. Scobee, 46, commanded the flight and was making his second
space shuttle mission.
Scobee was born and raised in Washington state, and enrolled in the Air
Force after high school graduation.
He atended night school and earned a degree from the University of
Arizona. The Air Force then gave him a commission and trained him as a jet
pilot. Scobee flew combat missions in Vietnam and then attended the Air Force
test pilot school. He was selected as an astronaut in 1979 and made his first
space flight in 1984.
Scobee married the former June Kent. They had two children.
Challenger's pilot was Mike Smith, 40, a commander in the U.S. Navy.
Smith was born and raised in Beauford, N.C., and graduated from the U.S.
huttle
flight last January.
The astronaut married the former Lorna Leiko Yoshida of Pahala, Hawaii,
and the couple had two children, Janelle, 16, and Darien, 10.
Astronaut Judy Resnik, 36, was a classical pianist who earned a doctorate
in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland.
After college, Resnik was a research scientist for RCA, then the National
Institutes of Health and later for Xerox. She was selected as an astronaut in
1978.
Resnik, who was single, trained on the shuttle's robot arm and during her
first flight, in 1984, used the arm to delicately break away a chunk of ice
that built up on the side of Discovery.
Gregory Jarvis, 41, is a Hughes Aircraft Co. engineer who was flying on
Challenger to conduct tests on the effects of weightlessness on fluid carried
in tanks.
Jarvis was born in Detroit. He served as a satellite engineer in the Air
Force and achieved the rank of captain before resigning to become a Hughes
engineer.
Jarvis married the former Marcia Jarboe of Spring Valley, N.Y., where the
couple made their home.