Seasoned Astronaut Departs NASA For Private Sector

NASA astronaut Robert Curbeam, Jr., served as deputy director of NASA’s Flight Crew Opeartions Directorate and he has flown on three space shuttle missions. He becme the first shuttle astronaut to conduct four spacewalks in a single mission. During the spacewalks, he assisted in clearing problems that had prevented the folding of a solar array win on the International Space Station (ISS) and he completed other assembly tasks. He flew on STS-85 and STS-98. He became an astronaut in December of 1994. He was a Captain in the U.S. Navy and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1984. Now this seasoned astronaut has left NASA after accepting a position in the private sector, and we wish him well in his new endeavors.