Karl Henize, born October 17, 1926 in Cincinnati, Ohio, traveled into space aboard Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-51-F) July-August 1985 as mission specialist. Chosen as an astronaut by NASA in 1967, he completed jet pilot training at Vance AFB in Enid, Oklahoma(!) and served as support crew for Apollo 15 and Skylab 2-4 missions.
On Challenger, he logged 188 hours in space.
He passed away in October 1993 from high altitude pulmonary edema during a climb of Mount Everest. He was part of test to study how people's bodies would be affected by radiation for long duration space missions.
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