van den Berg

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van den Berg

Dr Lodewijk van den Berg Status: Inactive. Trained as: Astronaut. Profession: Payload Specialist. Sex: Male. Marital Status: Married. Children: Two. Birth Date: 24 March 1932. Birth City: Sluiskil. Birth Country: Netherlands. Nationality: American. Group: Payload Specialist. Date Selected: 01 June 1983. Date Departed: 06 May 1985. Number of Flights: 1. Total Time: 7.01 days. Comments: Master of Science, 1972, followed by Ph.D.in 1975 in physics from the University of Delaware. Following shuttle flights joined Constellation Technology Corporation.

Flight Log

STS-51-B - - 1985 Apr 29 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 7.01 days. Flight details: STS-51-B.
Manned seven crew. Deployed Nusat; carried Spacelab 3. Payloads: Spacelab-3 experiments, habitable Spacelab and mission peculiar experiment support structure. The experiments represented a total of five different disciplines: materials processing in space, environmental observa-tions, life science, astrophysics, and technology experiments. Two getaway specials (GAS). The flight crew was split into gold and silver shifts working 12-hour days during the flight.

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