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Ronald Evans
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NASA astronaut (1933-1990)
OverviewAI-generated
Ronald Evans (1933–1990) was an American astronaut, military officer, engineer, and aircraft pilot. He served in the United States Navy, reaching the rank of captain 1st rank, and was employed by NASA as a member of the NASA Astronaut Group 5. Evans was born in St. Francis, Kansas, and died in Scottsdale from a myocardial infarction. He is buried in Arizona.
Evans received education from the United States Naval Academy, the University of Kansas, and the Naval Postgraduate School. His career included 18,112 minutes in space. He was awarded the Air Medal and the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, and was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame.
Synthesized by Vinony from 39 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Monster Truck Coloring Book
- Swift Justice
- Fear and Schooling
- Greenglow
- Prediction of regenerator thermal performance using a non-iterative method of computation
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · St. Francis, Kansas
Capt. Ronald Ellwin Evans Jr., USN (November 10, 1933 – April 7, 1990) was an American naval officer and aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut. As command module pilot on Apollo 17 he was one of the 24 astronauts to have flown to the Moon, and one of 12 people to have flown to the Moon without landing on it.
Known for
- The Last Steps — Himself2016
- The Apollo experience : Apollo 17 — Command Module Pilot2015
- Target... Earth? — Self (archive footage)1980
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1929-08-16
- Active to
- 1980-09-15
Discography
- New Jazz Conceptions1957
- The Ivory Hunters1959
- Know What I Mean?1961
- Empathy1962
- Interplay1962
- Undercurrent1962
- Conversations With Myself1963
- The Gary McFarland Orchestra1963
- Trio 641964
- Waltz for Debby1964
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 22
- Total plays
- 50
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ronald+Evans">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,635x
- Learning representations by back-propagating errors
· 1986 · cited 24,397x
- Antioxidant activity applying an improved ABTS radical cation decolorization assay
· 1999 · cited 21,351x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,620x
- The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,809x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Ronald Ellwin Evans Jr. , ( 1933-11-10 ) November 10, 1933, St. Francis, Kansas , U.S.
- Died
- April 6, 1990 (1990-04-06) (aged 56), Scottsdale, Arizona , U.S.
- Education
- University of Kansas ( BS ) Naval Postgraduate School ( MS )
- Awards
- NASA Distinguished Service Medal Navy Distinguished Service Medal Air Medal (8) Navy Commendation Medal
- Rank
- Captain , USN
- Time in space
- 12d 13h 52m
- Selection
- NASA Group 5 (1966)
- Total eva time
- 1h 5m
- Missions
- Apollo 17
- Retirement
- March 15, 1977
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Ronald Ellwin Evans Jr. (November 10, 1933 – April 6, 1990) was an American electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, officer and aviator in the United States Navy, and NASA astronaut. As Command Module Pilot on Apollo 17 he was one of the 24 Apollo astronauts to fly to the Moon, and one of the 12 to do so without landing.
Before becoming an astronaut, Evans graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas and joined the U.S. Navy in 1956. After receiving his naval aviator wings, he served as a fighter pilot and flew combat missions during the Vietnam War. In 1964 he received a Master of Science degree in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. Achieving the rank of captain, he retired from the Navy in 1976.
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