We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon
in this decade and do the other things, not because they are
easy, but because they are hard.
John F. Kennedy
Sept. 12, 1962
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Donn Fulton Eisele
Astronaut
| Date of Birth: |
June 23, 1930 |
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| Place of Birth: |
Columbus, Ohio |
| Died: |
December 2, 1987 in Tokyo, Japan |
| Cause of Death: |
Natural causes (heart attack) |
| Joined NASA: |
October 17, 1963 |
| Left NASA: |
June 1, 1972 |
| Space Flights: |
1 |
| Time in Space: |
10 days, 20 hours, 8 minutes |
| Number of EVA's |
0 |
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MISSION ASSIGNMENTS
Apollo 7
October 11-22, 1968
Assignment: Command Module Pilot
Flight Duration: 10 days, 20 hours, 8 minutes
Apollo 10
Assignment: Back-up Command Module Pilot
HIGHLIGHTS
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B.Sc., US Naval Academy, 1952
M.Sc., Astronautics, USAF Institute of Technology, 1962
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Graduate, USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards AFB, California.
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Project Engineer and Experimental Test Pilot at the USAF Special Weapons Center at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico.
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October 11-22, 1968, CMP Apollo 7, the first test of the Apollo Command and Service Modules in earth orbit.
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1972, left NASA and retired from the USAF to become Director of the Peace Corps in Thailand.
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Returned to work with Dresser Industries and the investment form of Oppenheimer & Company.
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Was with Prudential-Bache Securities of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida when he died of a heart attack while on a business trip to Japan.
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