SpaceNews: NASA Flight Surgeon Who Spent 199 Days in Space Wins Inaugural Joseph P. Kerwin, M.D. Award
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Joseph P. Kerwin
Joseph Peter Kerwin is an American physician and former NASA astronaut. He served as the science pilot for the Skylab 2 mission from May 25, 1973, to June 22, 1973. He was the first physician to be selected for astronaut training and the first doctor from the United States to enter space.
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Born 19 February 1932 · Q446917
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KRUG Life Sciences became the Life Sciences Special Business Unit of Wyle Laboratories of El Segundo, California
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1986· 1 entry
Issued a report on the deaths of the crew killed in the Challenger disaster to Associate Administrator for Space Flight, Richard H
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1973· 1 entry
Won NASA Distinguished Service Medal (1973).
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1953· 1 entry
With a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in philosophy with a minor in pre-med, ranked eighth in a class of 380 students
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1932· 2 entries
Born 1932-02-19.
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As the seventh child in an Irish Catholic family
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