Stephen Thorne

• Status: Died While In Active Service
• In Space: No
• Date of Birth: 02/11/1953
• Date of Death: 05/24/1986

Stephen Thorne, a American astronaut affiliated with the government agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration, embarked on 0 space flights and engaging in 0 spacewalks during his/her career as an astronaut.

Stephen Douglas Thorne was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot and a NASA astronaut candidate.

He was born on February 11, 1953, in Frankfurt, West Germany, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1975. He was a Navy fighter pilot from 1976 until he became a test pilot in 1981.

He was accepted for NASA astronaut training in June 1985, but died in an airplane accident where he was a passenger on May 24, 1986.