Dr. William E. Thornton

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Dr._William_E._Thornton
GPTKB entity
Statements (22)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:human
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill
gptkbp:astronautGroup gptkb:NASA_Group_6
gptkbp:awards gptkb:NASA_Exceptional_Service_Medal
gptkb:NASA_Space_Flight_Medal
gptkbp:birthDate 1929-04-14
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Faison,_North_Carolina,_United_States
gptkbp:deathDate 2021-01-11
gptkbp:employer gptkb:NASA
gptkbp:fieldOfWork biomedical engineering
space medicine
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:physician
gptkb:astronomer
gptkbp:selectedAsAstronaut 1967
gptkbp:spaceMission gptkb:STS-8
gptkb:STS-51B
2
gptkbp:totalTimeInSpace 313 hours
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:1967_NASA_Group
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Dr. William E. Thornton