11 Facts About Anthony Llewellyn

John Anthony Llewellyn was a Welsh-born American chemist, a former NASA astronaut candidate, and a NOAA aquanaut.

Anthony Llewellyn received his BSc degree from University College, Cardiff in 1955 and went on to achieve his PhD degree in chemistry in 1958.

Anthony Llewellyn married Valerie Mya Davies-Jones, and they had three children.

Anthony Llewellyn's diving gave him experience in the feeling of weightlessness, which helped prepare him for his later training as an astronaut.

Anthony Llewellyn was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in August 1967, one of two non-US citizens selected.

Anthony Llewellyn participated in flight training as part of NASA Astronaut Group 6; however, he dropped out of flight school and resigned from NASA in September 1968.

Anthony Llewellyn needed to learn to fly jets, and was not able to fly the jet with the cockpit blacked out.

In 1971, Anthony Llewellyn joined the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where for almost five years he was one of the four-person crew of Hydrolab, on the ocean floor in the Bahamas.

From 1971, Anthony Llewellyn was a full professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of South Florida, where he served as Director of the College of Engineering's computing department, and later as University Director of Academic Computing, helping to initiate the university's courses in High-Performance Computing and electronic and distance learning.

Anthony Llewellyn retired from the directorship in 2007 and was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering until his death.

Anthony Llewellyn's then current work was presented at the 2010 American Society for Gene and Cell Therapy and he was an invited session leader at the 2010 Gordon Conference in Bioelectrochemistry.