Space Shuttle: 20 Years "SAFER" page
I had an opportunity for ret. Air Force Col. Mark C. Lee to sign my book, and I chose this image (p. 82) of he and Carl J. Meade, also an Air Force colonel, testing the Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER) backpack. This was the first untethered US EVA since Mission 51A in 1984, 10 years earlier.
Lee flew four flights: STS-30R/Atlantis, which deployed Magellan to Venus; STS-47/Endeavour, which flew the Spacelab Japan (and he also flew with his then wife Jan Davis, the only time NASA has flown a married couple); STS-64/Discovery; and STS-82/Discovery, a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
Published reports indicate Lee was pulled from a fifth flight, STS-98, and replaced by Robert Curbeam for unspecified reasons. Also according to published reports Lee appealed the decision but was denied. He remained eligible for future flights, but Lee retired from NASA in 2001.
Unasked, he inscribed the page to me and added the Air Force motto - "Aim high!" Rockford, Ill., 5 April 2012.
Space Shuttle: 20 Years "SAFER" page
I had an opportunity for ret. Air Force Col. Mark C. Lee to sign my book, and I chose this image (p. 82) of he and Carl J. Meade, also an Air Force colonel, testing the Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER) backpack. This was the first untethered US EVA since Mission 51A in 1984, 10 years earlier.
Lee flew four flights: STS-30R/Atlantis, which deployed Magellan to Venus; STS-47/Endeavour, which flew the Spacelab Japan (and he also flew with his then wife Jan Davis, the only time NASA has flown a married couple); STS-64/Discovery; and STS-82/Discovery, a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
Published reports indicate Lee was pulled from a fifth flight, STS-98, and replaced by Robert Curbeam for unspecified reasons. Also according to published reports Lee appealed the decision but was denied. He remained eligible for future flights, but Lee retired from NASA in 2001.
Unasked, he inscribed the page to me and added the Air Force motto - "Aim high!" Rockford, Ill., 5 April 2012.