Byron Lichtenberg
Byron Kurt Lichtenberg born February 19, 1948 in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. is an American engineer and fighter pilot who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a Payload Specialist. In 1983, he and Ulf Merbold became the first Payload Specialists to fly on the shuttle. From 1978 to 1984 he was a researcher for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)/Canadian Vestibular experiments on Spacelab 1, Spacelab D-1, Spacelab SLS-1 and SLS-2, and a co-principal investigator for the Mental Workload and Performance experiment flown on IML-1 to assess human-computer workstation characteristics for the Space Station.
Spaceflights:
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 STS-9 PSP 28.11. - 08.12.1983 10d 07h 47m
2 STS-45 PSP 24.03. - 02.04.1992 8d 22h 09m
Total 19d 05h 56m
