Steven Hawley
Steven Alan Hawley (born December 12, 1951) is a former NASA astronaut who flew on five U.S. Space Shuttle flights. Hawley was born December 12, 1951, in Ottawa, Kansas. Hawley attended the University of Kansas, graduating with highest distinction in 1973 with bachelor of arts degrees in physics and in astronomy. He spent three summers employed as a research assistant: 1972 at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., and 1973 and 1974 at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. He attended graduate school at Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, graduating in 1977 with a doctorate in astronomy and astrophysics. Hawley\'s research involved spectrophotometry of gaseous nebulae and emission-line galaxies, with particular emphasis on chemical abundance determinations for these objects. The results of his research have been published in major astronomical journals. Prior to his selection by NASA in 1978, Hawley was a post-doctoral research associate at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in La Serena, Chile.
Spaceflights:
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 STS-41D MSP 30.08. - 05.09.1984 6d 00h 56m
2 STS-61C MSP 12.01. - 18.01.1986 6d 02h 03m
3 STS-31 MSP 24.04. - 29.04.1990 5d 01h 16m
4 STS-82 MSP 11.02. - 21.02.1997 9d 23h 37m
5 STS-93 MSP 23.07. - 28.07.1999 4d 22h 50m
Total 32d 02h 42m
