Robert Franklyn Overmyer was an American test pilot, naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, physicist, United States Marine Corps officer, and USAF/NASA astronaut. Overmyer was selected by the Air Forc
Overmyer in his spacesuit in 1982
Overmyer on the flight deck of Space Shuttle Columbia during the STS-5 mission
Overmyer, second from left, with fellow crew members of STS-51-B
Overmyer aiming a camera out of an overhead window of Space Shuttle Challenger during the STS-51-B mission
NASA Astronaut Group 7 was a group of seven astronauts accepted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on August 14, 1969. It was the last group to be selected during the Project Apollo
Robert F. Overmyer
…Overmyer logged over 7,500 flight hours, with over 6,000 in jet aircraft. The MOL program was canceled in 1969 and Overmyer was selected as part of NASA Astronaut Group 7, where his first assignment was engineering development on the Skylab Program from 1969 to 1971. From 1971–72, he was a support crew member for Apollo…
Group 7 astronauts. Left to right: Bobko, Fullerton, Hartsfield, Crippen, Peterson, Truly and Overmyer.
The fourteen remaining MOL astronauts in 1968. Back row, left to right: Robert T. Herres, Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr., Robert F. Overmyer, C. Gordon Fullerton, Robert L. Crippen, Donald H. Peterson, Karol J. Bobko and James A. Abrahamson. Front row, left top right: Lachlan Macleay, Richard E. Lawyer, James M. Taylor, Albert H. Crews, Francis G. Neubeck and Richard H. Truly. Absent: Michael J. Adams, John L. Finley and Robert H. Lawrence
The crews for the Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests (ALT). Left to right: Fullerton, Haise, Engle and Truly.