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Bryan Daniel O'Connor (born September 6, 1946) is a retired United States Marine Corps Colonel and former NASA astronaut. He was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2008. [2]
BRYAN D. O’CONNOR (COLONEL, USMC, RET.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) PERSONAL DATA: Born September 6, 1946, in Orange, California, but considers Twentynine Palms, California, to be his hometown. Bryan and his wife, Susan, have two married sons, Thomas and Kevin, and three granddaughters, Ella, Riley and Colby. The
Johnson Space Center Oral History Project Bryan D. O’Connor SELECT PUBLICATIONS & PATENTS: Bryan O’Connor, Space Flight Operations Contingency Action Plan, (Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1995). Bryan O’Connor and Jeremiah Pearson, Space Shuttle Program Contingency Action Plan,
Mar 19, 2007 · We are at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., to speak with Bryan O’Connor, [Chief] of the Office of Safety and Mission Assurance [OSMA], for the NASA at 50 Oral History Project. The interviewer is Sandra Johnson.
Bryan D. O’Connor was pilot on STS-61B Atlantis in 1985 and was crew commander on STS-40 Columbia in 1991. He was born September 6, 1946, in Orange, California. He received a bachelor’s degree in Engineering and a minor in Aeronautical Engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 1968.
Dec 28, 2012 · Mr. O’Connor is the former Chief of NASA’s Office of Safety and Mission Assurance and has served in a number of safety related roles for the space agency throughout the past 25 years. Although he retired from NASA in 2011, he currently serves as a member of the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel.
Jan 18, 2012 · O’Connor is a former U.S. Marine Corps test pilot and aeronautical engineer, with more than five thousand hours of flying time in over forty types of aircraft. He joined the NASA astronaut program in 1980 and flew two Space Shuttle missions, serving as pilot on STS-61B in 1985 and commander of STS-40 in 1991.
