Carter

Personal data:

Birthdate:  15.08.1947 Birthplace:  Macon / Georgia Marital status:  married Children:  two Selection date:  23.05.1984 Selection group:  NASA-10 Job:  MSP Date of death:  05.04.1991 Place of death:  near New Brunswick, Georgia

Spaceflights:

Additional information:

• Bachelor of arts in chemistry from Emory University in 1969; doctrate of medicine from Emory University, 1973;
  Captain US. Navy
  hobbies: Golf, tennis, wrestling, old movies, soccer (he was a professional socder player from 1970 - 1973, for the Atlanta Chiefs of the NASL).
• He was scheduled to fly on STS-42 at the time of his death in the crash of Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311 in Brunswick, Georgia while on a commercial airplane traveling for NASA.
• Carter was killed in the same plane crash that took the life of former Senator John Tower of Texas.