Alexander William Dunlap

Alex Dunlap, a payload specialist for the NASA space flight program, received the MD from UT in 1996 (he had received the DVM from LSU in 1989). In 1991 he served as a Biospecimen Sharing Program team member and a project veterinarian during Spacelab Life Sciences-1 (STS-40); post flight he performed delayed flight profile tests of onboard hardware. He served as the project veterinarian for the Physiological Systems Experiment-02 (STS-52) in 1992. He then worked as a Dryden Landing Site Biospecimen Sharing Team member for the Physiological and Anatomical Rodent Experiment-03 (STS-56) and as a payload specialist finalist/support scientist and veterinarian for Spacelab Life Sciences-2 (STS-58) in 1993. In 1995 he worked as a veterinarian/surgeon at the Dryden Landing Site for National Institutes of Health-R2 (STS-70); post flight he performed biospecimen tests at Kennedy Space Center.

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