NAME:	Charles D. Walker
	MDC Payload Specialist
	
BIRTHPLACE AND DATE:   Born in Bedford, Indiana, August 29, 1948.  His mother,
Donna Lake Walker, resides in Bedford; his father is deceased.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:   Brown hair;  blue eyes;  Height:   5 feet  9 inches;  
Weight:  165 pounds.

EDUCATION:   Graduated from Bedford High School, Bedford, Indiana, in 1966;
received a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical and astronautical
engineering from Purdue University in 1971.  

MARITAL STATUS:   Married to the former Susan Y. Flowers, of Joplin, Missouri.

CHILDREN:   Catherine L., December 28, 1970.

RECREATIONAL INTERESTS:  
  He enjoys photography, running, hiking, scuba diving, reading, book
collecting, and bonsai.

SPECIAL HONORS: 

  U.S. Patent No. 4,394,246, Electrophoresis Apparatus with Flow
Control, issued 19 July 1983; NASA Space Flight Medal (1984, twice in
1985); Sagamore of the Wabash, State of Indiana (November 1984);
Doctor of Science, honoris causa, St. Louis College of Pharmacy
(1985); Aerospace Laurels Award, Aviation Week and Space Technology
Magazine (1985); Lindbergh Award, American Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics - St. Louis Section (1986); NASA Group Achievement
Award, as consultant to the 1987-88 Space Station Operations Task
Force; Engineering Astronaut Alumnus Award, Purdue University Schools
of Engineering (September 1989); Kentucky Colonel, Commonwealth of
Kentucky (May 1990).

EXPERIENCE: 

  Following graduation from Purdue University he worked as a civil
engineering technician, land acquisition specialist and forest
firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service.  Subsequently he was a design
engineer with the Bendix Aerospace Company where he worked on
aerodynamic analysis, missile subsystem design, and flight testing.
He also was employed as project engineer with the Naval Sea Systems
Command with responsibility for computer-controlled manufacturing
systems.  Mr. Walker joined McDonnell Douglas in 1977 as a test
engineer on the Aft Propulsion Subsystem for the Space Shuttle
orbiters.  He joined the Space Manufacturing (later named
Electrophoresis Operations in Space, EOS) team as one of its original
members.  He shares in a patent for the McDonnell Douglas developed
continuous flow electrophoresis (CFES) device.  From 1979 to 1986, he
was Chief Test Engineer and Payload Specialist for the McDonnell
Douglas EOS commercialization project.  Mr. Walker led the EOS
laboratory test and operations team developing biomedical products.
His contributions to the program included engineering planning, design
and development, product research, and space flight test and
evaluation of the CFES device.  He was involved with the program
support activities at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and at the
Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas.  He was responsible for
training the NASA astronaut crews in the operation of the CFES payload
on STS-4, STS-6, STS-7, and STS-8 shuttle flights during 1982 and
1983.

 In May 1986, Mr. Walker was appointed Special Assistant to the
President of McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company.  Working in
Washington DC, Mr. Walker has been an industry member of the NASA
Microgravity Material Science Assessment Task Force, the NASA Space
Station Office Quick-is-Beautiful/Rapid Response Research Study Group,
and the NASA Space Station Operations Task Force.  He has been a
member of the National Research Council's Space Applications Board.
Mr. Walker was Faculty Course Advisor and lecturer for the
International Space university 1988 summer session.  He was a
participant in the 1988 Center for Strategic and International
Studies' civil space policy study.  He served on the AIAA steering
committee formulating the strategic plan for NASA's office of
Commercial Programs.  He has also served as treasurer and a board
member of the Association of Space Explorers.  Mr. Walker has served
as a board member of the Astronauts Memorial Foundation.  He was the
organizing committee chairman for the 1992 World Space Congress.  He
has been a national panel member of the NASA/Industry Manned Flight
Awareness Program and the NASA/Industry Education Initiative.
Mr. Walker advised the NASA/Purdue University space life support
research center, a NASA/Penn State space commercial development center
and a U.S. Department of Education/Ohio State university science
education center.  He is a member of the Council of Advisors to the
Challenger Center for Space Science Education.  Mr. Walker also serves
as the volunteer chairman of the board of directors of Spacecause, and
president of the National Space Society.  He is a professional
engineer registered in California.  He has authored several papers and
book contributions on the EOS electrophoresis program, space
development, commercialization, and space history.  Mr. Walker has
also written columns and articles appearing in national newspapers and
numerous other publications.

NASA EXPERIENCE: 

  While never an employee of NASA, he has been extensively involved in
payload preparation and on-pad processing support activities at
Kennedy Space Center, Florida; and in flight support at the Mission
Control Center, Houston, Texas.  He was responsible for training the
NASA astronaut crews in the operation of the CFES payload on STS-4,
STS-6, STS-7, and STS-8 shuttle flights during 1982 and 1983.
Confirmed by NASA in 1983 as the first industrial payload specialist,
Mr. Walker accompanied the McDonnell Douglas CFES equipment as a crew
member on Space Shuttle missions 41-D, 51-D, and 61-B, accumulating 20
days of experience in space and traveling 8.2 million miles.  Aboard
these Space Shuttle missions Mr. Walker also performed early protein
crystal growth experiments and participated as a test subject in
numerous medical evaluations.  Since 1986 Mr. Walker has served in
various NASA study and review team capacities including as a member of
the NASA Microgravity Material Science Assessment Task Force, the NASA
Space Station Office Quick-is-Beautiful/Rapid Response Research Study
Group, and the NASA Space Station Operations Task Force.  He has
served on the national panels of the NASA/Industry Manned Flight
Awareness Program and the NASA/Industry Education Initiative.

CURRENTLY:   Mr. Walker is presently Senior Specialist for Advanced Space
Programs Business Development with McDonnell Douglas Aerospace.

February 1996
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