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Overmyer was awarded the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal in 1969 for duties with the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory Program ; awarded the Marine Corps Meritorious Service Medal in 1978 for duties as the Chief Chase Pilot and support crewman for the Shuttle Approach and Landing Test Program ; received an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from Baldwin Wallace College, December 1982 ; awarded the U. S. Naval Postgraduate School Distinguished Engineers Award, January 1983 ; the Distinguished Flying Cross ( 1983 ); and the NASA Space Flight Medal ( 1983 ).
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Some experts, including one of NASA's lead investigators, Robert Overmyer, who was closest to Scobee, believed most if not all of the crew were alive and possibly conscious during the entire descent until impact with the ocean.
He was accompanied by Vance D. Brand ( spacecraft commander ), Col. Robert F. Overmyer ( pilot ), and Dr. William B. Lenoir ( mission specialist ).
Robert Franklyn Overmyer ( July 14, 1936-March 22, 1996 ) was an American test pilot, Colonel in the United States Marine Corps and NASA astronaut.
Overmyer was assigned to the Naval Postgraduate School in 1962 to study aeronautical engineering.
Colonel Overmyer was chosen as an astronaut for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory ( MOL ) Program in 1966.
The MOL program was canceled in 1969, and soon afterward Overmyer was selected as a NASA astronaut.
In 1979 Colonel Overmyer was assigned as the Deputy Vehicle Manager of OV-102 ( Columbia ) in charge of finishing the manufacturing and tiling of Columbia at the Kennedy Space Center preparing it for its first flight.
Colonel Overmyer was the pilot for STS-5, the first fully operational flight of the Shuttle Transportation System, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on November 11, 1982.
Colonel Overmyer was the commander of STS-51-B, the Spacelab-3 ( SL-3 ) mission.
Also in 1986, Overmyer was one of NASA's lead investigators into the Challenger Disaster.
Overmyer 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 a Cirrus VK-30, a light aircraft he was testing.
For one month ( May 1967 ), the station was also an affiliate of the United Network ( also known as the Overmyer Network ), a short-lived attempt to create a fourth commercial TV network nationally.
The Overmyer Network was a short-lived television network.
The network was founded by self-made millionaire Daniel H. Overmyer, who built five UHF stations from 1965-67 ( including Toledo's WDHO-TV ( now WNWO-TV ), which signed on the air on May 3, 1966 ).
Before the network even went on the air, Overmyer was forced to sell a majority share to investors, although he remained the largest shareholder.
The network called WPIX in New York City and KHJ-TV in Los Angeles their flagship stations, even though neither was owned by Overmyer / United.
Overmyer was brought into the full-time production staff to replace Pelecanos who scaled back his involvement to concentrate on his next book and worked on the fourth season solely as a writer.
The series was produced by many people who worked on Homicide: Life on the Street including Barry Levinson, Tom Fontana, Anya Epstein, Eric Overmyer, Irene Burns and Jim Finnerty.
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A social conservative (" I'm against smut ," he declared ), Overmyer began to produce his own programs, and decided to create a nationwide hookup, enticing existing stations with a 50-50 profit split with potential affiliates ( something that the established network's affiliates had been trying to get from ABC, CBS and NBC for years ).
Overmyer Broadcasting founded the station on May 3, 1966 as WDHO-TV ( for Daniel H. Overmyer ).
There were attempts by other companies, such as the Overmyer Network, to enter the television medium, but other than the DuMont Television Network all lasted for brief periods.
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* May 1-The United Network ( initially known as the Overmyer Network ) launches broadcasting with the talk / variety show The Las Vegas Show — which would be the only show it airs, as both network and show disappear in June due in part to transmission expenses.
After the investigation, Overmyer stated, " I not only flew with Dick Scobee, we owned a plane together, and I know Scob did everything he could to save his crew.
However, the mission had a close call, STS-51B mission commander Overmyer discovered while serving on the Challenger accident investigation team that 51-B had had a similar problem with its O-rings during the launch.
Laura Overmyer of clean sheet racing finished third with a time of 27. 003.
One heat later, driver Jim Overmyer and crew chief Mark Estes of team CSSN racing lowered the record a further 0. 133 with a 26. 632 run.
In the next heat, driver Sheri Lazowski and crew chief Mark Overmyer ( of CSSN racing ) took the victory with a blistering run of 26. 585 seconds.
The 2012 winner, Laura Overmyer of CSSN racing, with crew chief Mark Estes, posted a winning time of 26. 655 seconds, 0. 070 seconds slower than the track record set by her team the prior year.
While participating in the investigation into the destruction of Challenger during STS-51-L in 1986, Overmyer discovered that a problem with the shuttle's O-rings, similar to that which led to the disaster, had emerged during the launch of STS-51-B.
Overmyer entered active duty with the Marine Corps in January 1958.
Colonel Overmyer logged over 7, 500 flight hours, with over 6, 000 in jet aircraft.
Overmyer, second from left, with fellow crew members of STS-51-B.
By the early 1970s U. S. Communications encountered financial difficulties, largely due to poor advertising revenues and partially from the failure of a planned merger with the short-lived Overmyer Network.
Roz Weinman is show runner / executive produce with Eric Overmyer over Matthew Penn and Peter Jankowski, Weinman and Overmyer depart the series at the end of the season, replaced by Walon Green and Nicholas Wootton in season 16.
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The crew members included Robert F. Overmyer, commander ; Frederick D. Gregory, pilot ; Don L. Lind, Norman E. Thagard and William E. Thornton, mission specialists ; and Lodewijk van den Berg, of EG & G Energy Management, Inc., and Taylor G. Wang, of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, both payload specialists.
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Tinker, Masius, Fontana, and Paltrow wrote a number of episodes as well ; other writers included John Tinker, John Ford Noonan, Charles H. Eglee, Eric Overmyer, Channing Gibson, and Aram Saroyan.
The crew aboard the Orbiter Challenger included spacecraft commander, Robert Overmyer ; mission specialists, Norman Thagard, William E. Thornton, and Don Lind ; and payload specialists, Taylor Wang and Lodewijk van den Berg.
** Robert F. Overmyer ( Marine Corps ) ( pilot: STS-5 ; commander: STS-51-B )
On the Verge ; or, The Geography of Yearning is a play written by Eric Overmyer.
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Colonel Overmyer retired from NASA and the Marine Corps in May 1986.
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