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	NASA-3 John Blaha
		Blaha also "fixed" several wheat plants from the Svet greenhouse experiment designed to study the effects of microgravity on plant growth, and he noted that the heads of the plants were maturing.
		Blaha knew that this vital ground support team member could quickly understand the problem, contact the necessary people, obtain the spare fans, and have them delivered to Florida in time to be loaded on the mid-deck of Atlantis as it was being prepared for its launch to Mir.
		John Blaha retired from NASA in September 1997 to return to his hometown of San Antonio, Texas, where he now works as a management executive and volunteers with the Challenger Center for Space Education.
	history.nasa.gov /SP-4225/nasa3/nasa3.htm (8101 words)

	Travel: A meal with a mission
		Blaha flew in five shuttle missions from 1989 to 1996, spending as much as four months at a stretch in space, many of those days conducting science experiments with Russian astronauts on the Mir Space Station.
		Blaha answers that he is working in the private sector and comprehends the importance of the bottom line.
		Blaha is also asked a couple of technical questions, about gravitational force and things like that, which went over the heads of most of our family and I'm sure many of the other guests.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/11/02/Travel/A_meal_with_a_mission.shtml (1124 words)

	John Blaha Biography
		Blaha graduated from Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1960; received a bachelor of science in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and a master of science in astronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1966.
		John Blaha retired from NASA in September 1997 to return to his hometown of San Antonio, Texas, where he joined the Executive Management Group of the United Services Automobile Organization.
		Blaha began Russian language training in August 1994 at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, and commenced an intensive training program at the Cosmonaut Training Center, Star City, Russia in January 1995.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Blaha_John.html (828 words)

	Space Center offers 'Lunch With An Astronaut' - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Blaha is one of only 294 Americans -- out of 260 million people -- who has risked his life and left the earth's atmosphere in a spacecraft.
		Blaha answers that he is now working in the private sector and like any person in business comprehends the importance of the bottom line.
		Blaha is also asked a couple of questions that only an MIT grad could understand, about gravitational force and things like that, which went over the heads of most of our family and I'm sure many of the other assembled guests as well.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_168338.html (1203 words)

	Shuttle-Mir History/People/U.S. Residents/Blaha
		John Blaha, the third NASA astronaut in residence on the Russian space station, began his journey to Mir with the launch of STS-79 on the Space Shuttle Atlantis on September 16, 1996.
		During his four-month stay, Blaha and his cosmonaut crewmates conducted experiments in the areas of materials science, fluid science, and life science.
		Blaha holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering science from the U.S. Air Force Academy and a Master of Science in astronautical engineering from Purdue University.
	spaceflight1.nasa.gov /history/shuttle-mir/people/p-r-blaha.htm (181 words)

	STS-81 Facts
		John E. Blaha (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) is the third NASA astronaut to serve as a researcher aboard the Mir Space Station.
		Blaha was born August 26, 1942, in San Antonio, TX.
		Blaha received a bachelor of science in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and a master of science in astronomical engineering from Purdue University in 1966.
	www.space-shuttle.com /sts81-facts.html (951 words)

	Blaha certified to replace Lucid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Speaking from Russia's cosmonaut training facilities near Moscow, U.S. astronaut John Blaha said Wednesday he is prepared to replace his NASA colleague Shannon Lucid as a guest researcher aboard the Mir space station next month.
		Blaha, who appeared at the news conference after being certified for the flight by the Russian state commission on space, spoke in unhalting Russian with a Southern U.S. accent.
		Blaha is to return to the United States soon to complete his shuttle training with a crew led by NASA astronaut Bill Readdy.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/96/06/27/mir.html (422 words)

	Rawlings Jerry John - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Rawlings, Jerry John, born in 1947, president of Ghana (1982-2000).
		The leader of the 1972 coup, Colonel Ignatius K. Acheampong, banned political activity and established a ruling military council.
		While on Mir, Blaha performed experiments to study the effect of the microgravity environment of space on biological processes and assisted his...
	encarta.msn.com /Rawlings_Jerry_John.html (131 words)

	Hospitality News — Food Service News — Retail Industry News : Delaware North Companies
		The speaker is, officially, Retired Air Force Colonel John E. Blaha, but to those of us rounding up the last crumbs of our desserts, he is John Blaha, astronaut.
		Blaha is one of only 294 Americans — out of 260 million people — who have risked their lives and left the Earth's atmosphere in a spacecraft.
		Blaha flew in five shuttle missions from 1989 to 1996, spending as much as four months at a stretch in outer space, many of those days conducting science experiments with Russian cosmonauts on the Mir Space Station.
	www.delawarenorth.com /NewsRoom/newsroom.asp?action=get&dsp=Document_d2&id=5229 (783 words)

	From Mir to Mars: Mir: Living Aboard Mir
		In one interview from the space station, NASA astronaut John Blaha said he was surprised by the environment when he arrived.
		Blaha said the crew would also ride a stationary bicycle for about 45 minutes at a time, for cardiovascular exercise.
		John Blaha said he received World Series updates from ham radio operators all over the world while he was on Mir.
	www.pbs.org /safarchive/5_cool/5_mir/mir1.html (1649 words)

	CNN - 'Haven't had time to be homesick' - Oct. 3, 1996
		But Texas native John Blaha admits he counts on ham radio operators to keep up with scores from Dallas Cowboys and Texas Rangers games.
		Blaha, in a live interview Thursday with CNN's John Holliman, said he is getting along fine with his two Russian cosmonaut-roommates.
		Blaha said he misses his wife and family the most, but he is able to communicate with them via e-mail.
	www.cnn.com /TECH/9610/03/blaha.mir (351 words)

	Blaha
		Blaha also was the pilot on the crew of STS-33 which launched at night from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on November 22, 1989, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.
		On STS-58 Blaha commanded a seven-person life science research mission aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, launching from the Kennedy Space Center on October 18, 1993, and landing at Edwards Air Force Base on Runway 22 on November 1, 1993.
		Astronaut John Blaha relieved Shannon Lucid as NASA resident on the complex.
	www.astronautix.com /astros/blaha.htm (1117 words)

	EXN.ca \| Discovery
		Onboard was American Astronaut John Blaha who spent the last four months with two Russians aboard space station Mir.
		All told, Blaha, the third American astronaut to live onboard the Russian Space Lab, spent 128 days in space which makes his mission the second longest ever for an American.
		Blaha spent the trip back to Earth in a recumbent shuttle seat in order to ease the force of gravity on his body.
	www.exn.ca /Stories/1997/01/22/02.asp (275 words)

	Alumnus brings space exploration back to Purdue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Blaha, a 1966 graduate of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, will give a one-hour talk about his time in space at 8 p.m.
		After retiring from NASA in 1997, Blaha returned to his hometown of San Antonio, Texas, where he works in the executive management group of the United Services Automobile Organization.
		In December 1996, Blaha was on Mir when his daughter, Carolyn, earned her bachelor's degree from Purdue.
	www.purdue.edu /UNS/html3month/031007.Broughton.spaceday.html (449 words)

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		Blaha would return to Earth in the Soyuz in the event of a contingency aboard the Mir which would require the crew to abandon the complex.
		Blaha and Shannon Lucid are conducting handover discussions concerning the location and status of hardware and experiments he will use during his tenure on Mir.
		NASA Astronaut John Blaha, who has been aboard Mir since mid-September will transfer over to Atlantis and will be coming home after a 117 day stay aboard the station and 128 days in space.
	science.ksc.nasa.gov /shuttle/missions/sts-missions-flown-05.txt (21933 words)

	John Blaha and his wife in crew quarters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Blaha returned to Earth earlier today aboard the Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis when it touched down at 9:22:44 a.m.
		Blaha and the other five returning STS-81 crew members are spending the night here in the Operations and Checkout Building before returning to Johnson Space Center in Houston tomorrow morning.
		Blaha will undergo a two-week series of medical tests to help determine the physiological effects of his long-duration mission.
	science.ksc.nasa.gov /gallery/photos/1997/xml/KSC-97PC-0198.xml (124 words)

	STS-81 - General Informations about this Mission
		Astronaut John Blaha, who has been on Mir since September 19, 1996, will be replaced by astronaut Jerry Linenger.
		Shortly after docking, Linenger and Blaha will conduct their handover with Linenger becoming a member of the Mir crew and Blaha becoming Mission Specialist-4 through the end of the flight.
		John Blaha joined the Mir 22 crew with the September 19, 1996, docking of STS-79.
	www.space-shuttle.com /sts81gen.htm (877 words)

	Shuttle-Mir History/Shuttle Flights and Mir Increments/Blaha Increment/Blaha on Increments' Differences
		In his Oral History, U.S. Mir astronaut John Blaha stresses some differences between the seven NASA astronauts residencies on Mir.
		Blaha says, "I'm trying to tell people this at all levels, that they [may] hear a different message from different people who flew on long flights, [but] that the reason for that is each one of the seven long Mir flights really [was] different.
		Blaha says another factor that really affects a long-duration mission is the mission commander.
	spaceflight1.nasa.gov /history/shuttle-mir/history/h-f-blaha-differences.htm (418 words)

	CNN - Astronaut Blaha to head home a new man - Jan. 9, 1997
		For instance, he said his fingernails and hair have basically stopped growing, and that when blood is drawn from his arm it doesn't gush out like on earth.
		Blaha made his comments in a live interview with CNN's John Holliman.
		Once Atlantis reaches Mir, Blaha will be replaced by Jerry Linenger, a 42-year-old Navy captain and medical doctor who is to become the first American to conduct a spacewalk from Mir during his four-month mission.
	www.cnn.com /TECH/9701/09/blaha.interview (333 words)

	UP IN SPACE, THEY'LL TALK ABOUT NORFOLK ASTRONAUTS JOHN BLAHA AND ``JEFF'' WISOFF ARE MEETING ABOARD THE RUSSIAN CRAFT ...
		NASA astronaut John E. Blaha - a 1960 Granby High School graduate who has been living on the Russian station since September - and Norfolk native Peter ``Jeff'' Wisoff were expected to join other astronauts in a moving chore once the two spacecraft are linked and the hatches opened between them.
		Blaha and Wisoff will work with five Atlantis astronauts and the two Russian cosmonauts aboard Mir to move 3,600 pounds of supplies from the shuttle to the space station.
		Blaha, the third NASA researcher to live on the Mir space station, carried a Granby T-shirt and ball cap along for his four-month stay.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1997/vp970115/01150486.htm (813 words)

	STS-79 Mission Specialist John Blaha at SLF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		STS-79 Mission Specialist John E. Blaha arrives at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility with five fellow astronauts, ready to participate in the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT).
		During the approximately nine-day flight Blaha will change places with fellow spaceflight veteran Shannon Lucid, who is wrapping up a record-setting stay on Mir.
		Blaha will remain aboard the station for about four months, returning to Earth in January 1997 with the crew of Shuttle Mission STS-81.
	science.ksc.nasa.gov /gallery/photos/1996/xml/KSC-96PC-1007.xml (139 words)

	Former Astronaut To Highlight St. Philips’ College Salute To Veterans Nov. 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Blaha was selected an astronaut in 1980 and has since logged 161 days in space on five space missions.
		In addition to flying space missions, Blaha has served as the chairman of the NASA Space Flight Safety Panel; Weather Manager of the Mission Management Team; lead spacecraft communicator; and a member of the NASA Space Shuttle Improvement Panel.
		John Blaha retired from NASA in September 1997 to return to his hometown of San Antonio where he now resides with his family.
	www.accd.edu /stories/spc_astronaut.htm (338 words)

	CIO Perspectives - April 2004 - Speakers - John Blaha
		As a former astronaut, Blaha has spent a total of 161 days in space during the course of several space missions.
		Blaha served as pilot on STS-29 and STS 33, Spacecraft Commander on STS-43 and STS-58, Mission Specialist on STS-79 and STS-81 and as Board Engineer 2 while on Mir-22.
		He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Brooks Aerospace Foundation and a member of the Association of Space Explorers, Purdue Alumni Association, Society of Experimental Test Pilots and the Air Force Academy Association of Graduates.
	www2.cio.com /conferences/april2004/speaker.cfm?personid=403 (286 words)

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