Philip Kenyon Chapman (1935 - 2021)

Born 5 Mar 1935 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Died 5 Apr 2021 at age 86 in Arizona, United States

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Philip Kenyon Chapman (born 5 March 1935) was the first Australian-born American astronaut. He was the son of Colin Robison Chapman and Phyllis Hume Kenyon.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Science from University of Sydney in 1956, and in 1958 joined the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition and spent 15 months in Mawson Station, Antarctica. In the 1960s he worked as a staff physicist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 1967, Chapman was selected by NASA in Astronauts Group 6.^[1] He was not assigned to a mission and never flew into space. He resigned from NASA in 1972.

He passed away in Arizona, USA, on 5 Apr 2021, aged 86.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia List of Astronauts, by Year
2. ↑ Philip Chapman, first Australian-born NASA astronaut, dies at 86

See also:

• YOUNG DREAM COMES TRUE (1967, August 4). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 1. Retrieved April 11, 2021, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106970109
• Wikipedia: Philip K Chapman
• Wikidata: Item Q2705403, en:Wikipedia