Tony England | |
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Born | Anthony Wayne England May 15, 1942 Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. |
Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS, PhD) |
Space career | |
NASA astronaut | |
Time in space | 7d 22h 45min |
Selection | NASA Group 6 (1967) |
Missions | STS-51-F |
Mission insignia | ![]() |
Retirement | August 31, 1988 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Geophysics |
Thesis | Equations of State of Oxides and Silicates and New Data on the Elastic Properties of Spinel, Magnetite, and Cadmium Oxide (1970) |
Anthony Wayne "Tony" England (born May 15, 1942) is an American former NASA astronaut. Selected in 1967, England was among a group of astronauts who served as backups during the Apollo and Skylab programs. Like most others in his class, he flew during the Space Shuttle program, serving as a mission specialist on STS-51-F in 1985. He has logged more than 4,000 hours of flying time and 188 hours in space.
England helped develop and use radars to probe the Moon on Apollo 17 and glaciers in Washington and Alaska. He participated in and led field parties during two seasons in Antarctica.
England was formerly dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan's Dearborn campus.[1]