(From the N-Y Times
Charles E. Brady Jr., a former space shuttle astronaut and amateur radio enthusiast, died July 23 at his home in Oak Harbor, Wash., the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has reported. He was 54.
Selected by NASA as an astronaut in 1992, he flew aboard the shuttle Columbia in 1996 on a 16-day science mission. During that flight, he was one of the first operators of the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment, or Sarex, which allowed astronauts to talk with ham radio operators around the world.
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Charles E. Brady Jr., a former space shuttle astronaut and amateur radio enthusiast, died July 23 at his home in Oak Harbor, Wash., the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has reported. He was 54.
Selected by NASA as an astronaut in 1992, he flew aboard the shuttle Columbia in 1996 on a 16-day science mission. During that flight, he was one of the first operators of the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment, or Sarex, which allowed astronauts to talk with ham radio operators around the world.
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