Stephen Thorne
Stephen Thorne is an astronaut from United States of America affiliated with the government agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration, embarked on 0 space flights and engaging in 0 spacewalk(s) 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.
- Date of Birth: 02/11/1953
- Date of Death: 05/24/1986
- Status: Died While In Active Service
- In Space: No