1. Brian Todd O'Leary was an American scientist, author, and NASA astronaut candidate.
13 Facts About Brian O'Leary
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Brian O'Leary was part of NASA Astronaut Group 6, a group of scientist-astronauts chosen with the intention of training for the Apollo Applications Program.
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Brian O'Leary decided to become an astronaut after visiting Washington, DC as a teenager.
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On December 1,1983, Brian O'Leary was married to Delores Marie Lefkowitz, known as Dee Davenport, in Yarmouth, Massachusetts.
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Brian O'Leary became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1975.
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Brian O'Leary was the only planetary scientist in the NASA Astronaut Corps during the Apollo program.
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Brian O'Leary later taught at San Francisco State University, the UC Berkeley School of Law, Hampshire College, Princeton University and California State University, Long Beach.
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Brian O'Leary suggested that passing asteroids and the moons of Mars would be the easiest to access resources for space colonies.
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Brian O'Leary became politically active early in his career and participated in a demonstration in Washington, DC in 1970, to protest the Cambodian Campaign.
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Brian O'Leary worked for US presidential candidates Jesse Jackson, Dennis Kucinich, George McGovern, and Walter Mondale.
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Brian O'Leary traveled to the Soviet Union twice in the late 1980s with the aim of promoting peaceful space exploration, including a peace cruise along the Dnieper River.
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Brian O'Leary refused to work on military space applications, for which reason he lost his position there in 1987.
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Brian O'Leary contracted skin cancer in his 60s, which he treated with an alternative methodology involving a substance called Cansema.