Steve Maclean

Steven Glenwood MacLean

By Jerome

Personal Profile: Steve MacLean was born on December 14, 1954, in Ottawa Ontario. Steve MacLean is married, with children.

Education: Steve MacLean attended primary and secondary schools in Ottawa. He received a Science, Honours in Physics, in 1977. In Physics 1983 in York University in Toronto, Ontario.

Special honours:

Recipient of the President's award (Murray G. Ross Award) at York University in 1977, a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.

Postgraduate Scholarship 1980

Two Ontario Graduate Scholarships 1981, 1982 and a Postdoctoral Fellowship 1983.

Honorary Doctorate of Science from the Royal Military College in Saint-Jean, Quebec, another from York University, Toronto, and a third from Acadia University, Halifax.

Experience: From 1974 until 1976 Steve MacLean worked in sports administration and public relations at York University, and competed with the Canadian National Gymnastics Team from 1976 to 1977. He taught part-time at York University from 1980 until 1983, and then became a visiting scholar at Stanford University under the renowned laser physicist and Nobel Laureate A.L. Shawlow. As a laser physicist himself, MacLean's research has included work on electro-optics, laser-induced fluorescence of particles and crystals, and multi-photon laser spectroscopy.

MacLean was selected as one of the first six Canadian astronauts and began his astronaut training in February 1984. From 1987 to 1993 MacLean was the Program Manager for the Advanced Space Vision System (ASVS), a computer-based camera system designed to provide guidance data that enhances the control of both Canadarm and Canadarm2. From 1988 to 1991 he also assumed the role of Astronaut Advisor to the Strategic Technologies in Automation and Robotics (STEAR) Program.

MacLean was the Chief Science Advisor for the International Space Station from 1993 until 1994, when he was appointed Director General of the Canadian Astronaut Program for two years.

In August 1996 he began mission specialist training at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. After successfully completing basic training in 1998, he continued with advanced training while fulfilling technical duties in the NASA Astronaut Office Robotics Branch. More recently MacLean served as CAPCOM for both the International Space Station Program and the Shuttle Program, at the Johnson Space Center.

In February 2002 Steve MacLean was assigned to his second space flight. He will visit the ISS as a crew member of Mission STS-115 aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Steve MacLean is looking out from an aft-deck window of Space Shuttle Columbia, during STS-52, October 22 - November 1, 1992.

Photo: Canadian Space Agency (http://www.space.gc.ca)

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Steven Glenwood MacLean
By Jerome
Personal Profile: Steve MacLean was born on December 14, 1954, in Ottawa Ontario. Steve MacLean is married, with children. Education: Steve MacLean attended primary and secondary schools in Ottawa. He received a Science, Honours in Physics, in 1977. In Physics 1983 in York University in Toronto, Ontario. Special honours: Recipient of the President's award (Murray G. Ross Award) at York University in 1977, a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. Postgraduate Scholarship 1980 Two Ontario Graduate Scholarships 1981, 1982 and a Postdoctoral Fellowship 1983. Honorary Doctorate of Science from the Royal Military College in Saint-Jean, Quebec, another from York University, Toronto, and a third from Acadia University, Halifax. Experience: From 1974 until 1976 Steve MacLean worked in sports administration and public relations at York University, and competed with the Canadian National Gymnastics Team from 1976 to 1977. He taught part-time at York University from 1980 until 1983, and then became a visiting scholar at Stanford University under the renowned laser physicist and Nobel Laureate A.L. Shawlow. As a laser physicist himself, MacLean's research has included work on electro-optics, laser-induced fluorescence of particles and crystals, and multi-photon laser spectroscopy. MacLean was selected as one of the first six Canadian astronauts and began his astronaut training in February 1984. From 1987 to 1993 MacLean was the Program Manager for the Advanced Space Vision System (ASVS), a computer-based camera system designed to provide guidance data that enhances the control of both Canadarm and Canadarm2. From 1988 to 1991 he also assumed the role of Astronaut Advisor to the Strategic Technologies in Automation and Robotics (STEAR) Program. MacLean was the Chief Science Advisor for the International Space Station from 1993 until 1994, when he was appointed Director General of the Canadian Astronaut Program for two years. In August 1996 he began mission specialist training at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. After successfully completing basic training in 1998, he continued with advanced training while fulfilling technical duties in the NASA Astronaut Office Robotics Branch. More recently MacLean served as CAPCOM for both the International Space Station Program and the Shuttle Program, at the Johnson Space Center. In February 2002 Steve MacLean was assigned to his second space flight. He will visit the ISS as a crew member of Mission STS-115 aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.	Canadian Space Agency astronaut Steve MacLean is looking out from an aft-deck window of Space Shuttle Columbia, during STS-52, October 22 - November 1, 1992. Photo: Canadian Space Agency (http://www.space.gc.ca)
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