G. David Low

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Full Name	G. David Low
Occupation	Engineer
Date Of Birth	Feb 19, 1956(1956-02-19)
Age	68
Date Of Death	2008-03-15
Birthplace	Cleveland
Country	United States
Birth City	Ohio
Horoscope	Aquarius

G. David Low Biography

G. David Low is one of the most popular and richest Engineer who was born on February 19, 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Low was born on 19 February 1956, in Cleveland, Ohio and was involved within his local organization, the Boy Scouts of America where Low was awarded the most prestigious rank, which is Life Scout. The couple was the ex-wife of JoAnn Andochick, who was from Weirton, West Virginia. They had three kids: Maggie, Chris, and Abigail. He was a fan of lacrosse, tennis and scuba diving, as well as running along with spending quality time with his loved ones. His mother Mrs. Mary Ruth Low, passed away in the year 2011. His father Dr. George M. Low who was the Manager for the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office, in 1968 suggested that Apollo 8 fly around the moon. The parents of his widow, Mike and JoAnn Andochick live in Weirton, WV.

In his first mission, Low was a member of the crew on STS-32 which was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on the 9th of January 1990. Onboard the Orbiter Columbia, the crew successfully launched their Syncom IV-F5 communication satellite and then retrieved the 21400-pound Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) by using the RMS. They also carried out a range of middeck materials as well as life sciences experiments in addition to an IMAX camera. After 173 orbits around the Earth over 261 hours, Columbia returned to a night landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California on the 20th of January in 1990.

On STS-57, Low served as payload commander aboard the Orbiter Endeavour, which launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 21, 1993. The primary objective of this flight was the retrieval of the European Retrievable Carrier satellite (EURECA) using the RMS. Additionally, this mission featured the first flight of Spacehab, a commercially provided middeck augmentation module for the conduct of microgravity experiments. Spacehab carried 22 individual flight experiments in materials and life sciences research. During the mission Low, along with crew mate Peter J.K. Wisoff, conducted a 5-hour, 50-minute spacewalk during which the EURECA communications antennas were manually positioned for latching, and various extravehicular activity (EVA) tools and techniques were evaluated for use on future missions. Endeavour landed at the Kennedy Space Center on July 1, 1993, after 155 orbits of the Earth in 239 hours.

Selected by NASA in May 1984 as an astronaut candidate, Low became an astronaut in June 1985. He held a variety of technical assignments including work on the Remote Manipulator System (RMS), on Extra-vehicular activity (EVA), and Orbiter test and checkout tasks at the Kennedy Space Center. Low served as a spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) in the Mission Control Center during STS Missions 26, 27, 29 and 30. He also served as the lead astronaut in the Man-Systems Group and Station Operations Group of the Space Station Support Office. In 1993, Low was a member of the Russian Integration Team which worked for several months in Crystal City, Virginia to define the changes from the old Space Station Freedom to the new International Space Station. In 1994, he served as the Manager of the EVA Integration and Operations Office, and in 1995 he served as an assistant in the NASA Legislative Affairs Office where he worked with Members of the United States Congress and their staffs to keep them informed about NASA’s aeronautics and space programs. A veteran of three space flights, Low logged over 714 hours in space, including nearly six hours on a spacewalk. He was a mission specialist on STS-32 (January 9–20, 1990) and STS-43 (August 2–11, 1991), and was the payload commander on STS-57 (June 21 to July 1, 1993).

Low was employed as a member of his position in the Spacecraft Systems Engineering Section of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology from March 1980 to June 1984. The time was when it was his responsibility to participate in initial design of several planet missions, including an Autonomous Spacecraft Maintenance study, and the design of systems engineering for the Galileo spacecraft. Following a one-year leave to pursue graduate studies, Low returned to JPL where he was the principal spacecraft systems engineer for the Mars Geoscience/Climatology Orbiter mission.

G. David Low Net Worth

G. David Low is one of the richest Engineer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, G. David Low 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

George David Low (February 19 1956 – March 15th January 15, 2008) was an American aerospace executive, as well as an NASA astronaut. The father of his child was the late Dr. George Low, the Director for the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office. With a bachelor’s degree in mechanical and physics and a master’s in astronautics and aeronautics, He worked at JPL JPL in the California Institute of Technology in the 1980s prior to being selected as an astronaut from NASA during 1984. Alongside completing a few technical tasks, he spent hundreds of hours spent in space (including time on the Columbia as well as Atlantis, and Endeavour Atlantis along with the Endeavour) and then quit NASA at the end of 1996 in pursuit of a job within the business sector.

Low was a graduate of Langley High School, McLean, Virginia, in 1974 and received an Associate of Science degree in Physics-Engineering from Washington & Lee University in 1978. He also earned the Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1980, and a Master of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University in 1983. Then he attended Harvard in addition to Johns Hopkins.

Low next served as the flight engineer aboard the Orbiter Atlantis on STS-43. The nine-day mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 2, 1991. During the flight, crew members deployed the fifth Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-E), in addition to conducting 32 physical, material, and life science experiments, mostly relating to the Extended Duration Orbiter and Space Station Freedom. After 142 orbits of the Earth in 213 hours, the mission concluded with a landing on Runway 15 at the Kennedy Space Center on August 11, 1991.

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