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Farrimond, Richard Alfred

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Farrimond Credit: www.spacefacts.de

Status: Inactive; Active 1984-1986. Born: 1947-09-15. Birth Place: Birkenhead.

Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Bachelor of science in telecommunications engineering from the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, 1972. Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Signals Corps, British Army After retirement from active duty he worked with British Aerospace, then Matra Marconi Space UK Ltd., Bristol, and Paradigm Secure Communications in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

Family: Payload Specialist Astronaut. Country: UK. Flights: STS-61-H. Agency: British Army. More at: 5369. Bibliography: 4452.

• Birth of Richard Alfred Farrimond - . Nation: UK. Related Persons: Farrimond. British engineer payload specialist astronaut, 1984-1986..

• STS-61-H (cancelled) - . Crew: Blaha, Buchli, Coats, Fisher, Springer, Sudarmono, Wood, Nigel. Backup Crew: Akbar, Farrimond. Payload: Communications satellites. Nation: USA. Related Persons: Akbar, Blaha, Buchli, Coats, Farrimond, Fisher, Springer, Sudarmono, Wood, Nigel. Program: STS. Flight: STS-61-H. Spacecraft Bus: Shuttle. Spacecraft: Columbia. Planned shuttle mission for deployment of commercial communications satellites. Cancelled after Challenger disaster. .