death_date status birth_place mission nationality article_title birth_date insignia selection image time name type occupation
1 march 2011 retired -lrb- deceased -rrb- denver , colorado sts-51-i , sts-26 , sts-35 american john m. lounge
 28 june 1946 30px30px30px 1980 nasa group john lounge.jpg 20d 02h 23m john michael `` mike '' lounge nasa astronaut engineer
john m. lounge

john michael `` mike '' lounge -lrb- june 28 , 1946march 1 , 2011 -rrb- was an american engineer , a united states navy officer , a vietnam war veteran , and a nasa astronaut .
a veteran of three space shuttle flights , lounge logged over 482 hours in space .
he was a mission specialist on sts-51-i -lrb- 1985 -rrb- and sts-26 -lrb- 1988 -rrb- and was the flight engineer on sts-35 -lrb- 1990 -rrb- .
