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Topic: NASA's Gemini and Apollo flight surgeons
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Philip
Member Posts: 6356
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 10-24-2025 10:20 AM
   
Besides Dr. William K. Douglas (1922-1998) and Dr. Charles A. Berry (1924-2020), who were the NASA astronaut flight surgeons during Gemini and Apollo programs?I believe Dr. Douglas and Dr. Berry were U.S. Air Force, while Dr. L. Ballenberger was U.S. Navy? Any background on Dr. Howard A. Minners and Dr. Eugene F. Tubbs? |
onesmallstep
Member Posts: 1550
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 10-24-2025 11:00 AM
Dr. William Carpentier (b. 1935, Edmondton, Alberta Canada) comes to mind. He was a flight surgeon at the time of Apollo 11 and spent weeks in quarantine with the astronauts and NASA engineer John Hirasaki (b. 1941) after splashdown. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his role in the Apollo 13 mission. |
Philip
Member Posts: 6356
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 10-30-2025 04:56 AM
Apollo 17 — Dr Charles "Chuck" La Pinta (1934-2015). He trained at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and was a U.S. Army veteran. Dr. LaPinta then pursued a career in Aerospace Medicine. He spent his long career at NASA, as Crew Surgeon and Chief of Physiologic Training during the heyday of the U.S. space program. His many interesting duties included being Crew Surgeon on numerous Apollo, Skylab and Shuttle missions; traveling internationally with astronaut teams on working and goodwill trips; facilitating astronaut training and medical care; participating as a test subject for space program training exercises; and serving as the family physician to astronauts and their families, many other NASA personnel, and friends and neighbors who called or knocked on the door. |
amcombill
New Member Posts: 5
From: Huntsville, AL
Registered: May 2022
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posted 11-30-2025 01:26 AM
Howard Minners was a flight surgeon during the Gemini era. He was formerly Air Force. He was involved in an incident in which a 1793 US cent was included in the inflight medical kit on the Gemini VII mission, for a coin collector friend. After leaving NASA, he went to the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, where I believe he is still living. | |
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