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Loren Wilbur Acton (born March 7, 1936) is a
physicist and was a Payload Specialist astronaut.

Born in Lewistown, Montana he went on to receive a
bachelor of science degree from Montana State
University in 1959, and a Doctor of Philosophy in
Solar Physics  from the University of Colorado in
1965.

Doctor Acton is the senior staff scientist with
the Space Sciences Laboratory, Lockheed Palo Alto
Research Laboratory, California. As a research
scientist, his principle duties included
conducting scientific studies of the Sun and other
celestial objects using advanced space instruments
and serving as a co-investigator on one of the
Spacelab 2 solar experiments, the Solar Optical
Universal Polarimeter. He was selected as one of
four payload specialists for Spacelab 2 on August
9, 1978, and after seven years of training he did
fly on STS-51-F/ Spacelab-2. At mission
conclusion, Dr. Acton had traveled over 2.8
million miles in 126 Earth orbits, logging over
190 hours in space.

He is married and has two children.

== External links ==
*http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/acton-lw.ht
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