Ronald Anthony Parise
Parise is in the center
NASA Payload Specialist
Nationality	American
Born	May 24, 1951 Warren, Ohio
Died	May 9, 2008 Silver Spring, Maryland
Other occupation	Scientist
Space time	25d 14h 13m
Selection	1984 NASA Group
Missions	STS-35, STS-67
Mission insignia

Ronald Anthony Parise, Ph.D. (May 24, 1951 – May 9, 2008) was an American scientist and NASA astronaut and who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Warren is a city in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Trumbull County. Events 1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Silver Spring is an urbanized Unincorporated area in Montgomery County Maryland, USA A scientist, in the broadest sense refers to any person that engages in a systematic activity to acquire Knowledge or an individual that engages in such practices 1957 - Man In Space Soonest Group 1 - USA Neil A Armstrong, Albert S STS-35 was the tenth flight of Space Shuttle ''Columbia'', the thirty-eighth shuttle flight and a mission devoted to deploying ASTRO-1 an observatory consisting STS-67 was a Human spaceflight mission using that launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 1995-03-02. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Events 1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Events 1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program An astronaut or cosmonaut (космона́вт) is a person trained NASA 's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System ( STS) is the Spacecraft currently used by the United States In NASA vernacular a Payload Specialist (PS was an individual selected and trained by commercial or research organizations for flights of a specific payload on a

Parise was born in Warren, Ohio to Henry and Catherine Parise. Warren is a city in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Trumbull County. By age 11, he became a licensed amateur radio operator. Amateur radio, often called ham radio, is both a Hobby and a service in which participants called "hams" use various types of Radio communications In his teens, he developed an interest in astronomy and aviation and became a pilot. ^[1] He attended Western Reserve High School, graduating in 1969 before attending Youngstown State University. The name Western Reserve High School may refer to Western Reserve Academy, in Hudson Ohio Western Reserve High School (Collins Ohio Youngstown State University, founded in 1908 is an accredited University located in Youngstown, Ohio, United States. In 1973, he obtained a bachelor of science degree in physics, with minors in mathematics, astronomy, and geology. Physics (Greek Physis - φύσις in everyday terms is the Science of Matter and its motion. Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and Astronomy (from the Greek words astron (ἄστρον "star" and nomos (νόμος "law" is the scientific study Geology (from Greek γη gê, "earth" and λόγος Logos, "speech" lit He went on to receive a master's degree in 1977 and a doctorate in 1979 from the University of Florida, both in astronomy. The University of Florida ( Florida or UF) is a public land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant major Research He and his wife Cecelia Sokol Parise had two children.

Parise died from a brain tumor on Friday, May 9, 2008 at the age of 56. A brain tumor is any intracranial Tumor created by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division, normally either in the Brain itself ( Neurons Events 1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common ^[2][3]

Contents 1 Career 2 Spaceflight experience 3 Organizations 4 Awards and honors 5 References

Career

Upon graduation in 1979, Parise accepted a position at Operations Research Inc. (ORI) where he was involved in developing avionics requirements definitions and performing failure mode analyses for several NASA missions. Avionics means "aviation electronics" It comprises electronic systems for use on aircraft artificial satellites and spacecraft comprising Communications In 1980 he began work at Computer Sciences Corp. in the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) operations center as a data management scientist and in 1981 became the section manager of the IUE hardcopy facility. International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE

In 1981 he began work on the development of a new Spacelab experiment called the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT). Spacelab was a reusable laboratory flown into space on the Space Shuttle. His responsibilities involved flight hardware and software development, electronic system design, and mission planning activities for the UIT project. In 1984 he was selected by NASA as a payload specialist in support of the newly formed Astro mission series. During his twelve years as a payload specialist he was involved in mission planning, simulator development, integration and test activities, flight procedure development, and scientific data analysis, in addition to his flight crew responsibilities for the Astro program. At the completion of the Astro program, Parise assumed an advanced planning and communications engineering support role for a variety of human space flight projects including Mir, International Space Station (ISS), and the X-38. Mir (Мир which can mean both Peace and World, and was the name given to peasant communes in pre-revolutionary Russia was a Soviet (and The X-38 Crew Return Vehicle (CRV was a prototype for a wingless Lifting body reentry vehicle that was to be used as a Crew Return Vehicle for the International

Parise has engaged in a number of astronomical research projects utilizing data from ground-based observatories, the Copernicus satellite (OAO-3), IUE, and the Astro observatory. His research topics, including circumstellar matter in binary star systems and the evolutionary status of stars in globular clusters, have resulted in several professional publications. A binary star is a Star system consisting of two Stars orbiting around their Center of mass. A globular cluster is a spherical collection of Stars that orbits a galactic core as a Satellite. A veteran of two space flights, Parise logged more than 614 hours and 10. 6 million miles in space. He served as a payload specialist aboard STS-35 in 1990 and STS-67 in 1995. At the end of his career, Parise supported the Goddard Space Flight Center, Networks and Mission Services Project, in the area of advanced communications planning for human spaceflight missions. The Goddard Space Flight Center ( GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight He was also involved with projects in the Advanced Architectures and Automation Branch that are developing the use of standard Internet Protocols (IP) in space data transmission applications.

Spaceflight experience

STS-35/Astro-1 Columbia (December 2–December 10, 1990). STS-35 was the tenth flight of Space Shuttle ''Columbia'', the thirty-eighth shuttle flight and a mission devoted to deploying ASTRO-1 an observatory consisting Space Shuttle Columbia ( NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-102) was the first spaceworthy Space shuttle in NASA 's Events 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire Events 1041 - Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V The Astro observatory is a unique complement of three telescopes designed to simultaneously record spectral data, polarimetric data and imagery of faint astronomical objects in the far ultraviolet. Ultraviolet ( UV) light is Electromagnetic radiation with a Wavelength shorter than that of Visible light, but longer than X-rays The mission duration was 215 hours and 5 minutes. The shuttle landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Edwards Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located on the border of Kern County and Los Angeles County California in the Antelope California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean.

STS-67/Astro-2 Endeavour (March 2–18, 1995). STS-67 was a Human spaceflight mission using that launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 1995-03-02. Space Shuttle Endeavour ( Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105 is one of the three currently operational orbiters in the Space Shuttle fleet of Events 986 - Louis V becomes King of the Franks. 1127 - Assassination of Charles the Good Events 37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius ' will and proclaims Caligula emperor Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 This was the second flight of the Astro observatory. During this record-setting 16-day mission, the crew conducted observations around the clock to study the far ultraviolet spectra of faint astronomical objects and the polarization of ultraviolet light coming from hot stars and distant galaxies. A galaxy is a massive gravitationally bound system consisting of Stars an Interstellar medium of gas and dust, and Dark matter The mission duration was 399 hours and 9 minutes. The landing was at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Edwards Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located on the border of Kern County and Los Angeles County California in the Antelope California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. ^[4]

Ron was instrumental in bringing amateur radio equipment to the shuttle and operated on the air during his own missions.

Organizations

• American Astronomical Society
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Association of Space Explorers
• International Astronomical Union
• Sigma Xi
• Phi Kappa Phi
• Warren Amateur Radio Assoication, Inc. Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Society is a Non-profit Honor society which was founded in 1886 at Cornell University by a junior faculty The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (or simply Phi Kappa Phi) is the oldest largest and most selective all-discipline Honor society for land-grant
• AMSAT
• ARISS
• Space Hams International

Awards and honors

• NASA Space Flight Medal (1991, 1995)
• Distinguished member of Phi Kappa Phi (1996)
• Honorary Doctor of Science degree, Youngstown State University (1996)
• NASA/GSFC Special Act Award (1995)
• Computer Sciences Corp. AMSAT is a name for Amateur radio Satellite organizations world-wide but in particular the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT-NA with headquarters The NASA Space Flight Medal is a decoration of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) , Space and Earth Technology Systems, Award for Technical Innovation (1999)
• NASA Group Achievement Award (1988, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2000)
• NASA/GSFC Community Service Award (1990)
• Allied Signal, Quest for Excellence Award (1997)

References

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 330 - Byzantium is renamed ''Nova Roma'' during a dedication ceremony but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople

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