Ronald A Parise, WA4SIR (SK) (May 10, 2008)

-- Ronald A. Parise, PhD, WA4SIR, passed away Friday May 9, 2008 after
a very long and courageous battle with cancer. He was 57. Parise flew as
a payload specialist on two space shuttle missions: STS-35 on Columbia
in December 1990 and STS-67 on the Endeavour in March 1995. These two
missions, ASTRO-1 and ASTRO-2 respectively, carried out ultraviolet and
x-ray astronomical observations, logging more than 614 hours and 10.6
million miles in space. Parise was one of the first astronomers to
operate a telescope from space, making hundreds of observations during
the mission. Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
Chairman Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO, said Parise's personal contributions to
these two missions provided scientists with "an unprecedented view of
our universe, expanding our understanding of the birth, life and death
of stars and galaxies."

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Vernon Erle Ikeda
Dollard des Ormeaux, Quebec