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Topic: Curt Michel, scientist-astronaut (1934-2015)
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-28-2015 06:23 PM
collectSPACE F. Curt Michel, scientist-astronaut who left NASA after losing the moon, dies at 80Curt Michel, an astrophysicist who was among NASA's first scientist-astronauts but who resigned when it became clear he would not fly to the moon, died on Feb. 23. He was 80. Michel's passing was reported on Friday (Feb. 27) by Rice University in Houston, where served as a faculty member before and after his time with NASA. "Although he retired in 2000 after 37 years at Rice, Michel continued to keep an office on campus, where he pursued his studies of solar winds [and] radio pulsars," stated the university in a release. ![](http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-030215a-lg.jpg) |
randy Member Posts: 2176 From: West Jordan, Utah USA Registered: Dec 1999
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ColinBurgess Member Posts: 2031 From: Sydney, Australia Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 02-28-2015 08:43 PM
Many of us will remember meeting Curt at the Sims-Hankow show in San Antonio in 2006. A nice guy, and sadly the first of the Group 4 astronauts to leave us. |
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East-Frisian Member Posts: 586 From: Germany Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 03-01-2015 02:24 AM
Sad. R.I.P. |
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posted 03-01-2015 05:06 AM
Frank Curtis RIP,------------------ Astronauts, Cosmonauts & their flights |
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Delta7 Member Posts: 1505 From: Bluffton IN USA Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 03-01-2015 09:56 AM
Is his last name pronounced Michael or Mishelle? I've never been sure... |
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Neil DC Member Posts: 140 From: Middletown, NJ, USA Registered: May 2010
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posted 03-01-2015 05:25 PM
quote: Originally posted by Delta7: Is his last name pronounced Michael or Mishelle? I've never been sure...
They pronounced it Michael. I thought it was Michelle until corrected. |
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