Facts: - mission: sts-51-j - type: usaf astronaut - insignia: 30px - status: retired - selection: 1982 usaf group - birth date: 26 june 1952 - name: william arthur pailes - time: 4d 01h 44 m - nationality: american - image: williamapailes.jpg - birth place: hackensack , new jersey - rank: colonel , usaf retired - occupation: computer scientist Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of william a. pailes .
william arthur pailes -lrb- colonel , usaf -rrb- -lrb- born june 26 , 1952 -rrb- was a usaf astronaut in the manned spaceflight engineer program during the mid-1980s .he served as a payload specialist on sts-51-j '' atlantis '' -lrb- october 3 -- 7 , 1985 -rrb- .