Loren Acton

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[?]. 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.

He is married and has two children.

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