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Michael Logan Lampton (born March 1, 1941) is an American astronaut, founder of the optical ray tracing company Stellar Software, and known for his paper on electroacoustics with Susan M Lea, The theory of maximally flat loudspeaker systems.[1]

Michael L. Lampton
Born (1941-03-01) March 1, 1941 (age 81)
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
OccupationPhysicist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Space career
UC Berkeley Payload Specialist
MissionsSTS-9, STS-45
Mission insignia

Personal


Lampton was born March 1, 1941 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.[2] He is married to San Francisco State University physicist, Susan M. Lea, with whom he has one daughter, Jennifer Lea Lampton.[3]


Education



SNAP Project


Lampton has been heavily involved with the SNAP project.[4] SNAP, the Supernova/Acceleration Probe, will study exploding stars called supernovae, as well as the gentle smearing of the light from distant galaxies due to gravity — called weak gravitational lensing — and put limits on what may or may not be the force driving the outward pull on the Universe. SNAP will investigate over one thousand square degrees of sky with a 500 megapixel camera.[5]

SNAP is part of the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM), which is a cooperative venture between NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy. SNAP collaborators John Mather and George Smoot were awarded the 2006 Nobel prize in physics.[6]


Career with NASA


Lampton was a NASA payload specialist from 1978 to 1992.[2] Below is a list of the missions he was a part of.

YearMissionPosition
1983STS-9/Columbiaselected and served as backup payload specialist[7]
1985STS-51-H/Spacelab EOM 1 missionselected as payload specialist (mission cancelled after the technical problems)
1986STS-61-K/Spacelab EOM 1-2 missionselected as payload specialist (mission cancelled after the Challenger accident)[8]
1989STS-45/ATLAS-1selected as payload specialist (the same mission as STS-61K—but renamed), replaced by backup payload specialist Dirk Frimout due to medical problems [9]

Pranks


In 1961, while Lampton was attending Caltech he was one of the "Fiendish Fourteen", 14 students responsible for the Great Rose Bowl Hoax.


References


  1. Lea, S.; Lampton, M. (1972). "The theory of maximally flat loudspeaker systems". IEEE Transactions on Audio and Electroacoustics. ieeexplore.ieee.org. 20 (3): 200–203. doi:10.1109/TAU.1972.1162374.
  2. Joachim Becker. "Astronaut Biography: Michael Lampton". spacefacts.de. Retrieved 2016-07-22.
  3. "Dr. Susan Lea".
  4. Lampton, M; Collaboration, SNAP (2002). "[astro-ph/0209549] The SNAP Telescope". arXiv:astro-ph/0209549.
  5. "SNAP". Archived from the original on 2013-07-03. Retrieved 2013-07-03.
  6. "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006". nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2016-07-22.
  7. "home/hqnews/1990/90-072". nasa.gov. Retrieved 2016-07-22.
  8. "flights/sts61k". astronautix.com. Archived from the original on April 15, 2002. Retrieved 2016-07-22.
  9. "NASA - ATLAS-1: The First Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science". nasa.gov. Retrieved 2016-07-22.


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