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Gerald Paul Carr
Astronaut
| Date of Birth: |
August 22, 1932 |
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| Place of Birth: |
Denver, Colorado |
| Joined NASA: |
April 4, 1966 |
| Left NASA: |
June 25, 1977 |
| Space Flights: |
1 |
| Time in Space: |
84 days, 1 hour, 15 minutes |
| Number of EVA's: |
3 |
| Total EVA Time: |
15 hours, 49 minutes |
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MISSION ASSIGNMENTS
Apollo 8
Assignment: Support Crew & Capcom
Apollo 12
Assignment: Support Crew & Capcom
Skylab 4
November 16, 1973 - February 8, 1974
Assignment: Commander
HIGHLIGHTS
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B.Sc., Aeronautical Engineering, US Naval Postgraduate School, 1961
M.Sc., Aeronautical Engineering, Princeton, 1962
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Commissioned as a Marine Corps Officer in 1954 and attended the Marine Corps Officer Basic School at Quantico, Virginia. Served in USMC Fighter squadrons until selected by NASA.
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Worked on the devekopment and testing of the Lunar Roving Vehicle(LRV) used on Apollo 15,16 & 17.
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November 1973-February 1974, CDR of Skylab 4, the longest US spaceflight until the advent of the Shuttle-Mir and ISS programs in the mid to late 1990's. Conducted three spacewalks including one to photograph the comet Kohoutek during it's closest approach to Earth.
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In mid 1977 named head of the design support group at NASA working on STS systems.
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Retired from the USMC on August 22, 1975 and left NASA in June of 1977.
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From 1977-81, Senior Vice-President with Bovary Engineers Inc., Houston, Texas.
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From 1981-83, Senior Consultant to the President of Applied Research Inc. in California.
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From 1983-85, Manager of the University of Texas 300 inch Telescope Project.
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In 1984, founded Camus Inc., with his wife. The Corporation provides technical support services in Zero-G human factors engineering, analysis, training and systems integration as well as promoting his wife's art work.
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