Stephen Thorne

Stephen Thorne was a government astronaut from United States of America, affiliated with NASA.

During their career, Stephen Thorne flew on 0 spaceflights.

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.