Albert Sacco

Albert Sacco, Jr.
WPI Payload Specialist
Nationality American
Born May 3, 1949
Boston, Massachusetts
Other occupation
 Professor
Time in space
 15d 21h 34m
Missions STS-73
Mission insignia

Albert Sacco, Jr. (born May 3, 1949) is an American chemical engineer who flew as a Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia on shuttle mission STS-73 in 1995.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Sacco completed a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Northeastern University in Boston in 1973, and then a Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977. He then joined the faculty of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, becoming a full professor and rising to department head in 1989.

Sacco accepted the position of Dean of the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering at Texas Tech University, effective January 1, 2011.[1]

Sacco flew as a payload specialist on STS-73, which launched on October 20, 1995, and landed at the Kennedy Space Center on November 5, 1995.

References

  1. ↑ "Former Columbia Astronaut Named Engineering Dean". On This Day: July 7. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech Today. 2010-11-03. Retrieved 2011-07-07.
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