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Farrimond, Richard Alfred

Farrimond
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British engineer payload specialist astronaut, 1984-1986.

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.

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Family: Astronaut. Country: UK. Flights: STS-61-H. Agency: British Army. Bibliography: 4452, 5369.

1947 September 15 - .

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

1986 June - .

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

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