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Encyclopedia > Loren Acton
Loren Wilber Acton
Loren Acton
NASA Astronaut
 Nationality American
 Born March 7, 1936
Lewistown, Montana
 Occupation1 Solar X-ray Physicist
 Space time 7d 22h 45m
 Selection 1978 NASA Group
 Mission(s) STS-51-F
Mission insignia
 1 previous or current

Loren Wilber Acton (born March 7, 1936) is a physicist and was a Payload Specialist astronaut. Image File history File links LorenActon. ... NASA Insignia Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2005-09-01, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in leap years). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Lewistown is a city in Fergus County, Montana, United States. ... ... 1958 1959 1960 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1984 1985 1987 1990 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 2000 2003 2004 1958 June 25 - Man In Space Soonest - USA The first group of American astronaut candidates were selected... STS-51-F (Spacelab 2) was the nineteenth flight of a Space Shuttle and the eighth flight of Challenger. ... STS-51-F flight insignia The crewmembers of Space Shuttle mission 51-F have chosen as their insignia this design by Houston artist Skip Bradley. ... March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in leap years). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit (MMU) outside the Challenger in 1984. ...


Born in Lewistown, Montana he went on to receive a bachelor of science degree from Montana State University in 1959, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Solar Physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1965. Lewistown is a city in Fergus County, Montana, United States. ... The Montana State University System was created on July 1, 1994, when the Montana Board of Regents of Higher Education restructured the states colleges and universities into two umbrella universities, Montana State University System and the University of Montana. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Sun is the star at the centre of our Solar system. ... The University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder, UCB officially[2]; Colorado, CU colloquially) is the flagship university of the University of Colorado system. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...


Doctor Acton was the senior staff scientist with the Space Sciences Laboratory, Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, California. As a research scientist, his principle duties included conducting scientific studies of the Sun and other celestial objects using advanced space instruments and serving as a co-investigator on one of the Spacelab 2 solar experiments, the Solar Optical Universal Polarimeter. He was selected as one of four payload specialists for Spacelab 2 on August 9, 1978, and after seven years of training he did fly on STS-51-F/ Spacelab-2. At mission conclusion, Dr. Acton had traveled over 2.8 million miles in 126 Earth orbits, logging over 190 hours in space. Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Spacelab in payload bay during STS-90 Spacelab is a microgravity laboratory flown into space on the Space Shuttle. ... August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... STS-51-F (Spacelab 2) was the nineteenth flight of a Space Shuttle and the eighth flight of Challenger. ...


He is married and has two children.


Doctor Loren Acton is currently a Research Professor of Physics in the Solar Physics Group at Montana State University where he currently oversees the solar physics group, which carries on an active research program under NASA support. They are actively involved in day-to-day operation and scientific utilization of the Japan/US/UK Yohkoh mission for studies of high-energy solar physics. This satellite carries a solar x-ray telescope, prepared under the leadership of Dr. Acton, for the study of high-energy processes, such as solar flares, on the sun. The primary emission of the extremely hot outer atmosphere of the sun, the solar corona, is at x-ray wavelengths and the extended duration, high resolution x-ray imagery from Yohkoh are being analyzed in an effort to learn why the sun has a corona at all and why it varies in intensity so strongly in response to the 11 year sunspot cycle.


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Loren Acton (157 words)
Born on March 7, 1936, in Lewiston, Montana he went on to receive a bachelor of science degree from Montana State University[?] in 1959, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Solar Physics [?] from the University of Colorado in 1965.
Doctor Acton is the senior staff scientist with the Space Sciences Laboratory, Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, California.
As a research scientist, his principle duties included conducting scientific studies of the Sun and other celestial objects using advanced space instruments and serving as a co-investigator on one of the Spacelab 2 solar experiments, the Solar Optical Universal Polarimeter[?].
Astronaut and physicist Loren Acton to deliver Bunyan Lecture: 4/01 (697 words)
The talk, which is free and open to the public, is titled "The Magnetic Personality of the Universe." Stanford's Astronomy Program in the Physics Department sponsors the Bunyan Lectures, which are intended to bring the latest findings in cosmology research to the public and explore their impact on society.
Acton said study of the solar corona over a long period of time lets researchers link coronal changes to the solar cycle, in which the sun's magnetic field swaps north with south every 22 years.
Among his many awards, Acton has received the 2000 Hale Prize for long-term contribution to solar physics from the American Astronautical Society, the 1993 NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, the 1988 Robert E. Gross Award for technical excellence at Lockheed Corp. and the 1986 Spaceflight Achievement Award of the American Astronautical Society.
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