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 Robert Franklin
Overmyer,
a Colonel in the United
States Marine Corps (retired), was born on July 14, 1936 in
Loraine, Ohio, and considered Westlake, Ohio his hometown.
His hobbies
included skiing, water skiing, boating, acrobatic flying in open cockpit
biplanes, coaching baseball, and running. He was a member of the Society of
Experimental Test Pilots, Experimental Aircraft Association, and Aircraft Owners and
Pilots Association.
Overmyer died on March 22, 1996 in Duluth,
Minnesota in the crash of an experimental civilian light aircraft he was
test piloting for Cirrus Design Corporation. (Cirrus VK30 experimental
N44VK)
NASA Biography
Space Flights:
- Pilot, STS-5,
Columbia, November 11-16, 1982, first operational shuttle flight, two satellites deployed
- Commander, STS-51B, Challenger, Spacelab 3, April 29-May
6, 1985
Total Hours in Space: 290+
Astronaut Group:
7-February, 1970
(previously assigned to the US Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory program)
Degrees: BS, Physics, Baldwin
Wallace College in 1958. MS, Aeronautics with a major in Aeronautical Engineering, U. S.
Naval Postgraduate School in 1964; received an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from
Baldwin Wallace College, December 1982.
Military Service &
Awards: He served in Vietnam. Awarded the USAF
Meritorious Service Medal in 1969 for duties with the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory
Program; awarded the USMC Meritorious Service Medal in 1978 for duties as the Chief Chase
Pilot and support crewman for the Shuttle Approach and Landing Test Program, awarded the
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School Distinguished Engineers Award, January 1983; the USMC
Distinguished Flying Cross (1983); and the NASA Space Flight Medal (1983).
Interred at Arlington National Cemetery: May 20, 1996
Section:
23
Grave: 22469
front
Grid: M-23
How to locate:
Located just West of the mast of the U.S.S. Maine near the Memorial
Amphitheater.
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