Steve Austin (character)

Steve Austin
First appearance	Cyborg (novel)
Last appearance	Bionic Ever After? (TV movie)
Created by	Martin Caidin
Portrayed by	Lee Majors
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Aliases	The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic man
Species	Human, Cyborg
Gender	Male
Occupation	Secret agent, former astronaut and test pilot, former soldier (novels)
Spouse(s)	Jaime Sommers (The Bionic Woman)
Children	Michael Austin

Steve Austin is an science fiction character created by Martin Caidin for his 1972 novel, Cyborg. The lead character, Colonel Steve Austin, became an iconic 1970s television science fiction action hero, portrayed by American actor Lee Majors, in American television series ''The Six Million Dollar Man', which aired on the ABC network as a regular series for five seasons from 1974 to 1978. In the television series, Steve Austin takes on special high-risk government missions using his superhuman bionic powers. The television character Steve Austin became a pop culture icon of the 1970s.

The Six Million Dollar Man television series had as its original working title during pre-production the Martin Caidin novel Cyborg title.

Caidin's version of Steve Austin appeared in only four original novels unrelated to the television series continuity: Cyborg, Operation Nuke, High Crystal and Cyborg IV.

Following the The Six Million Dollar Man television series, Lee Majors reprised the role of Colonel Steve Austin in a several bionic reunion television movies in the late 1980s and 1990s.

As originally conceived by Caidin, Austin is a former US Army helicopter pilot who served in Vietnam before being transferred to the Air Force and then into NASA. As backup Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 17, he became one of twelve astronauts to walk on the moon when the prime Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) broke an arm before launch.

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