EOM Payload Specialists

Date of selection:     04. May 1984 / 27. December 1985

ATLAS astronaut group

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No. Name Profession Age Retirement Age
01 Charles R. Chappell Physicist 42 29.09.1989 46
02 Michael L. Lampton Physicist 43 29.09.1989 48
03 Byron K. Lichtenberg Aerospace Engineer 36 29.09.1989 41


Note:
EOM was cancelled after the Challenger disaster, scheduled for the mission was Lampton and Lichtenberg. The backup candidates Chappell and Frimout (nominated by the Investigator Working Group (I.W.G.)) was nominated only in December 1985. Later the same candidates starts training for the analogous mission ATLAS.
 
Astronaut-Training:
04.05.1984 Lampton, Lichtenberg
27.12.1985 Chappell
 
Examination:
??.??.1985 Lampton, Lichtenberg
??.??.1986 Chappell

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