1. Dee O'Hara was born on August 9,1935, in Nampa, Idaho.
18 Facts About Dee O'Hara
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Dee O'Hara worked as a surgical nurse at the University of Oregon Medical School.
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Dee O'Hara completed officers' training at Maxwell Air Force Base Alabama at the rank of second lieutenant.
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In May 1959, Dee O'Hara was assigned to Patrick Air Force Base in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in support of the Mercury Program.
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Dee O'Hara resigned from the US Air Force in 1964, in order to move to the Manned Spacecraft Center to set up the Medicine Flight Clinic.
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In November 1959, Dee O'Hara became the first Staff Nurse of the Mercury Program.
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Dee O'Hara's job was to set up the Aeromed Lab, the crew sleeping quarters, the exam area for the astronauts in Hangar S, and be with them as their nurse.
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Dee O'Hara was the only nurse assigned to the astronauts.
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The astronauts would not agree to let anyone else but Dee O'Hara draw blood before launch.
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Dee O'Hara helped set up the portable hospital at the Grand Bahama Island to support post flight examination and, if needed, treat injured astronauts after landing.
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Dee O'Hara was the Occupational Health Nurse until 1967, and the manager of the Preventive Medicine Office between 1967 and 1971.
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Dee O'Hara performed all the pre-flight checks, fly down to Cape Canaveral and stayed there until the crew was recovered and brought back to the Cape, to do the post-flight exams.
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Dee O'Hara supported the Apollo Program astronauts, through tragedies like the Apollo 1 fire and accomplishments such as the Moon landings.
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Between 1971 and 1974 Dee O'Hara was the manager of the Medical Operations Division in the Flight Medicine Branch until moving to Ames Research Center.
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Dee O'Hara was involved in the decision to ground astronaut Ken Mattingly from Apollo 13 due to the concern he might have contracted German measles.
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Dee O'Hara participated in every launch in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs.
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In 1974, Dee O'Hara moved to the Ames Research Center where she managed the Human Research Facility until her retirement in 1997.
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Dee O'Hara is an outside member of the Human Research Institutional Review Board.