James Bagian, born February 22, 1952 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a veteran of two space shuttle flights. He received his Doctorate of Medicine from Thomas Jefferson University in 1977. He is the first astronaut of Armenian descent to travel into space.
His first flight was aboard Discovery (STS-29) as mission specialist in March 1989. The mission's main goal was the deployment of part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite.
His second and final flight was aboard Columbia (STS-40) as mission specialist in June 1991. It was the fifth dedicated SpaceLab mission, dedicated solely to life sciences experiments.
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