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Astronaut to Address
Medical Society Event
Aeronaut Gerald P. Carr, commander
of Skylab IV, will be guest speaker Friday
for the Shreveport Medical Society's an-nual
inaugural banquet at Convention
Gerald P. Carr
Hall.
The banquet will begin with a 6:30 p.m.
reception for members and invited guests
and installation of new officers for the
society will highlight the evening.
Presentation of the SMS Distinguished
Service Award will be made. Name of the
recipient is secret until the formal announ-cement.
Col. Carr's talk will be supplemented
by a movie made on the moon and
photographs.
The Skylab IV flight was the longest
manned flight to date in the history of
manned space exploration. It lased 84
days, one hour and 15 minutes.
During the flight the crew completed 56
experiments, 26 science demonstrations
and acquired extensive earth resources
observations data using hand - held
cameras, Skylab's earth resources ex-periment
package camaera and sensor ar-ray.
The crew logged 338 hours of operation
of the Apollo Telescope Mount, which
made extensive observations of the sun's
solar processes.
Col. Carr was born in Denver, Colo.,
and is a graduate of Santa Ana, Calif.,
High School. He obtained his B.S. degrees
in mechanical engineering from the
University of Southern California in 1954
and in aeronautical engineering from the
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1961.
He earned his M.S. degree in aeronautical
engineering.
Citations include the NASA Group
Achievement Award in 1971 and the NASA
Distinguished Service Medal in 1974.
Object Description
| Title | Astronaut to Address Medical Society Event |
| Subject |
Shreveport Medical Society (Shreveport, La.) Carr, Gerald P. |
| Date | 1974 |
| Identifier | See reference URL on the navigation bar. |
| Source | Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport Medical Library (http://lib.sh.lsuhsc.edu) |
| Language | en |
| Relation | http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm4/index_LSUHSCS_NPC.php?CISOROOT=/LSUHSCS_NPC |
| Coverage-Spatial | Shreveport (Caddo, La.) |
| Rights | Physical rights are retained by Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. |
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