John Lounge, 3-time shuttle crew member, dies
HOUSTON
A NASA statement says Lounge died in Houston on Tuesday.
The Navy veteran joined the U.S. astronaut corps in 1980 and
flew his first mission aboard the shuttle Discovery in 1985. His
second mission came in 1988, when he was part of a shuttle
Discovery mission that was the first flight after Challenger blew
up during launch. His last flight came aboard Columbia in 1990.
In all, Lounge logged 20 days in space before resigning from the
astronaut corps to become director of space shuttle and space
station program development for Boeing-NASA Systems.
