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Nationality
  
American

Space missions
  
Role
  
Astronaut


Name
  
Michael Lampton

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First space flight
  
Michael Lampton

Born
  
March 1, 1941 (age 83) Williamsport, Pennsylvania (
1941-03-01
)

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Michael Logan Lampton (born March 1, 1941) is an American astronaut, founder of the optical ray tracing company Stellar Software, and known for his paper on electroacoustics with Susan M Lea, The theory of maximally flat loudspeaker systems.

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Personal

Born March 1, 1941 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Married to Susan M. Lea with one daughter. He is a U.S. citizen.

Education

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Caltech, 1962
  • Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California-Berkeley, 1967
  • SNAP Project

    Lampton has been heavily involved with the SNAP project. SNAP, the Supernova/Acceleration Probe, will study exploding stars called supernovae, as well as the gentle smearing of the light from distant galaxies due to gravity — called weak gravitational lensing — and put limits on what may or may not be the force driving the outward pull on the Universe. SNAP will investigate over one thousand square degrees of sky with a 500 megapixel camera.

    SNAP is part of the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM), which is a cooperative venture between NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy. SNAP collaborators John Mather and George Smoot were awarded the 2006 Nobel prize in physics.

    Career with NASA

    Lampton was a NASA astronaut from 1978 to 1992. Below is a list of the missions he was a part of.

    Pranks

    In 1961, while Lampton was attending Caltech he was one of the "Fiendish Fourteen", 14 students responsible for the Great Rose Bowl Hoax.

    References

    Michael Lampton Wikipedia


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