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Grew up in Bellingham, Washington, son of a physician. Educated Annapolis; Patuxent. US Navy test pilot.
Oswald piloted two missions aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, STS-42 and STS-56 flown in January 1992 and April 1993, respectively. The International Microgravity Laboratory-1, the primary payload on STS-42, included 55 major microgravity experiments conducted over the eight-day flight in Discovery's Spacelab module. STS-56 was the second Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-2) mission. This nine-day flight also included the deployment and retrieval of the SPARTAN spacecraft.
Most recently, Oswald commanded STS-67, the second flight of the Astro observatory (Astro II), which flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in March, 1995. In addition to collecting an unprecedented amount of ultraviolet astronomy data, STS-67 also established a mission duration record for Space Shuttle at 17 days. With the completion of his third space flight, Oswald has logged over 33 days in space.
Birth Place: Seattle, Washington.
Status: Inactive.
Born: 1951.06.30.
Spaceflights: 3 .
Total time in space: 33.94 days.
Mission Specialists: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics and minimum three years of related experience or an advanced degree. Vision minimum 20/150 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20. Maximum sitting blood pressure of 140/90. Height between 150 and 193 cm.. Thirteen astronauts, taken from 33 civilians and 133 military applicants for the 1984 selection. 59 of these were screened for the final selection.
