Loren Shriver

Infobox Astronaut
name =Loren James Shriver


type =NASA Astronaut
status =Retired
nationality =American
date_birth =23 September 1944
place_birth =Jefferson, Iowa
occupation =Test Pilot
rank =Colonel, USAF
selection =1978 NASA Group
time =16d 02h 04m
mission =STS-51-C, STS-31, STS-46
insignia =|

Loren James Shriver (born 23 September 1944), is a retired NASA astronaut, aviator, and a retired US Air Force Colonel.

Career

Shriver currently holds the position of Deputy Director for Launch and Payload Processing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Before taking this position in 1997, Shriver served as the Space Shuttle program Manager for Launch Integration.

Shriver was commissioned in 1967, and served from 1969 to 1973 as a T-38 academic instructor pilot at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma. In 1973 he was then assigned to an overseas tour in Thailand. Beginning in 1975, he attended the United States Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California. He was later assigned to the 6512th Test Squadron, and in 1976, Shriver began serving as a test pilot for the F-15 Joint Test Force.

Shriver was selected as an astronaut by NASA in January 1978, participated in three space flights, and logged over 386 hours in space. Shriver was pilot of STS-51-C, launched from Kennedy Space Center on 24 January 1985. Shriver commanded a crew of five on his second mission, STS-31 which launched on 24 April 1990. This five-day flight deployed the Hubble Space Telescope. Shriver also commanded mission STS-46 in 1992.

Personal

Shriver was born in Jefferson, Iowa. He and his wife, Susan Diane, have three daughters: Camilla, Melinda, and Rebecca, and one son: Jered. The Shrivers reside in Titusville, Florida.

Education

He received a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1967, and a Master of Science in Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University in 1968.

Awards and honors

* United States Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross
* Defense Superior Service Medal
* Defense Meritorious Service Medal
* Air Force Meritorious Service Medal
* Air Force Commendation Medal
* NASA Distinguished Service Medal
* NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal
* NASA Space Flight Medals
* American Astronautical Society Flight Achievement Award, 1990
* American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Haley Space Flight Award, 1990
* Astronaut Hall of Fame, May 2008. [ [http://www.astronautscholarship.org/ahof_bios.html U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Inductee Biographies] , retrieved 2008-03-25] [ [http://kennedyspacecenter.stores.yahoo.net/2008ahof.html 2007 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction] , retrieved 2008-03-25]

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