James Philip Bagian, MD, PE ( born 22 February 1952 in Philadelphia ), is an engineer and former NASA astronaut.

After leaving NASA in 1995, Bagian was elected as a member of both the National Academy of Engineering and of the Institute of Medicine.

Bagian was a member of the NASA Headquarters Research Animal Holding Facility Review Board.

Bagian left NASA in 1995.

He is married to Tandy Bagian ( engineering degree from University of Washington, Seattle ) whom he met at NASA where she worked in human factors, working directly with astronauts.

The NASA crew however stayed together and finally flew on STS-29, only Anna Fisher was replaced by James Bagian on that flight.

* James P. Bagian — NASA astronaut and physician

* Dr. James P. Bagian

The population of the island in the 2010 Census was 434, 113 people, administered among 3 regencies, Maluku Tengah Regency had 170, 392 people on Seram island itself and 191, 306 on the lesser islands ( majority on Ambon Island ), the entirety of Seram Bagian Barat Regency and Seram Bagian Timur Regency.

West Seram ( Kabupaten Seram Bagian Barat ), capital at Dataran Hunipopu, had a population ( 2003 ) of 140, 657 ; and Eastern Seram ( Kabupaten Seram Bagian Timur ), capital at Dataran Hunimoa, had a population ( 2003 ) of 78, 336.

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Bagian is currently the Director of the Center for Health Engineering in the Department of Anesthesia at the University of Michigan.

Bagian is of Armenian descent.

Bagian worked as a process engineer for the 3M Company in Bristol, Pennsylvania, in 1973, and later as a mechanical engineer at the U. S. Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent River, Maryland, from 1976 to 1978, and at the same time, pursued studies for his medical degree.

Upon graduating from Thomas Jefferson University in 1977, Bagian completed one year of general surgery residency with the Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania.

Bagian received his Professional Engineers Certification in 1986, and was board-certified in aerospace medicine by the American College of Preventive Medicine in 1987.

Since 1981, Bagian has been active in the mountain rescue community and has served as a member of the Denali Medical Research Project on Mt.

Bagian is a colonel in the U. S. Air Force Reserve and is the pararescue flight surgeon for the 939th Air Rescue Wing.

In 1986, Bagian served as an investigator for the 51-L accident board.

A veteran of two space flights ( STS-29 in 1989 and STS-40 in 1991 ), Bagian has logged over 337 hours in space.

In 2003 Bagian served as the Chief Flight Surgeon and Medical Consultant for the Columbia Accident Investigation Board.

Dan Goldin became NASA Administrator on April 1, 1992, officially abandoning plans for near-term human exploration beyond Earth orbit with the shift towards a " faster, better, cheaper " strategy for robotic exploration.

With the death of company founder and first CEO Willard Rockwell in 1978, and the stepping down of his son Willard Rockwell, Jr. in 1979 as the second CEO, Bob Anderson became CEO and led the company through the 1980s when it became the largest U. S. defense contractor and largest NASA contractor.

Named after Joseph Sweetman Ames and founded on December 20, 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) laboratory, ARC became part of NASA in 1958 as part of the turnover from the dissolution of NACA, having now ( at the last estimate ) over $ 3. 0 billion in capital equipment, 2, 300 research personnel and a $ 600 million annual budget.

BMDO became better known in the public eye in 1994 when it launched a space probe, Clementine, to the Moon, in collaboration with NASA.

Selected by NASA in May 1984, Dr. Carter became an astronaut in June 1985, qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on future Space Shuttle flight crews.

Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. ( November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998 ) was an American naval aviator, test pilot, flag officer, NASA astronaut, and businessman, who in 1961 became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space.

After leaving NASA he became a successful businessman.

On October 11, 1958, Pioneer 1 became the first spacecraft launched by NASA, the newly formed space agency of the United States.

He became involved in the NASA work in the areas of dosimetry, radiation effects, and environmental controls.

In the 20th century, the area became the location of Langley Air Force Base, NASA Langley Research Center, and the Virginia Air and Space Center.

In 1958 AMBA's scientific and engineering staff, including Von Braun and Arthur Rudolph, were transferred to the newly created NASA, and the facilities on the southern half of Redstone Arsenal became Marshall Space Flight Center.

Douglas G. Hurley, NASA astronaut and pilot of mission STS-127, became the first alumnus to travel in outer space in July 2009.

NASA presented Cronkite with a moon rock sample from the early Apollo expeditions spanning 1969 to 1972. ref > Cronkite passed on the Moon rock to Bill Powers, president of the University of Texas at Austin, and it became part of the collection at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.

Later his student Robert R. Gilruth, who became the director of the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, approved and used them in spacecraft.

The first reported involvement of NASA and space rock came in 2009 when an off duty worker from the shuttle program synchronised footage of a Discovery launch with the Flowers Of Hell's ' Sympathy For Vengeance ' in an online video which became popular amongst staff at the Kennedy Space Center.

On August 6, 1996 ALH 84001 became newsworthy when it was claimed that the meteorite may contain evidence of traces of life from Mars, as published in an article in Science by David McKay of NASA.

Charles " Pete " Conrad, Jr. ( June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999 ) was a U. S. Navy officer and NASA astronaut, and during the Apollo 12 mission became the third man to walk on the Moon.

Pupin was a one founding member of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) on March 3, 1915, which later became NASA.

Pirtle became technical director for the ILLIAC IV project at NASA Ames Research Center.

Hunt was a NASA scientist who became trapped in suspended animation in 1979, only to awaken 154 years later.

Professor Richard Eppler of the University of Stuttgart developed the PROFIL code, partly with NASA funding, which became available in the early 1980s.

From 1974 – 1977 the powerful Titan-Centaur became the new heavy lift vehicle for NASA, launching the Viking and Voyager series of spacecraft from Launch Complex 41.

This brought Wernher von Braun and the German Operation Paperclip scientists and engineers to Huntsville, forming the foundation to what eventual became the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.

Hence, beginning in 1958, NASA JPL and the Caltech crew became focused primarily on unmanned flight and shifted away from military applications with a few exceptions.