John "Mike" Lounge, born June 28, 1946 in Denver, Colorado, was a veteran of three space shuttle mission as well as a Vietnam War veteran. He spent nine months in Southeast Asia aboard the USS Enterprise participating in 99 combat missions after graduating from the U.S. Naval academy in 1969.
His first mission was aboard Discovery (STS-51-I) as mission specialist August-September 1985. Their objective was to deploy 3 communications satellites.
His second flight was as mission specialist aboard Discovery (STS-26), the first mission after the Challenger disaster in January 1986. It was the first all-veteran crew mission since Apollo 11.
His third and final mission was on Columbia (STS-35) in December 1990.
Lounge passed away March 1, 2011 from liver cancer.
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