Five Questions with Charles Walker

Article

“Five Questions with Charles Walker,” Interview by Scott Sacknoff
Published in Quest Volume: 27 #1 (2020)

Abstract

Charles Walker flew on three Shuttle missions in 1984 and 1985—not as a NASA-employed astronaut, but as an employee of McDonnell Douglas. This made him the first person to fly into space under the employment of a private commercial company. As the first industrial pay-load specialist, he was at the forefront of commercial space efforts related to using microgravity to produce materials that can be used for biomedical products.

Citation

Walker, Charles. “Five Questions with Charles Walker.” Interview with Scott Sacknoff. Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 27, no. 1 (2020): 3-6.