Paul Scully-Power
| Paul Desmond Scully-Power | |
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| U.S. Navy Payload Specialist | |
| Nationality | American |
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May 28, 1944 Sydney, Australia |
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Other occupation
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Oceanographer |
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Time in space
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8d 05h 23m |
| Missions | STS-41-G |
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Mission insignia
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Paul Desmond Scully-Power, AM, FRAeS (born May 28, 1944) is an Australian born, American oceanographer. In 1984, while a civilian employee of the United States Naval Undersea Warfare Center, he flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-41-G as a Payload Specialist. He was the first Australian-born person to journey into space, and the first astronaut to launch with a beard.
Scully-Power went on to work in private industry. He is considered a world expert in remote sensing: visible, infra-red, radar and acoustic.
Scully-Power was born in Sydney, Australia, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1982. He is married with six children (Adam, Lincoln, Holly (deceased), Victoria, William and Tara). His recreational interests include squash and racket ball, sailing, and reading.
He attended schools in London and Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview in Sydney. He studied applied mathematics at the University of Sydney, where he resided at St John's College, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science with Honours in 1966 and a Diploma of Education in 1967.
Scully-Power has spent extensive time at sea. He took part in 24 scientific cruises, for 13 of which he was chief scientist. He is regularly invited to give papers at national and international scientific meetings and reviews articles for four technical journals. Scully-Power is also a qualified Navy diver.
In January 1967, after graduating from the University of Sydney, he was approached by the Royal Australian Navy to set up the first oceanographic group within the Navy.
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