Brian O'Leary

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Brian O'Leary
NASA astronaut
SelectionNASA Astronaut Group 6 1967
RetirementApril 23, 1968
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
ThesisMars: Visible and Near Infrared Studies and the Composition of the Surface (1967)

Brian Todd O'Leary (January 27, 1940 – July 28, 2011)[1] was an American scientist, author, and NASA astronaut candidate. He was part of NASA Astronaut Group 6,[1] a group of scientist-astronauts chosen with the intention of training for the Apollo Applications Program.

Personal

O'Leary was born and raised in

Boston, Massachusetts on January 27, 1940. He decided to become an astronaut after visiting Washington, D.C. as a teenager.[2] On December 1, 1983, O'Leary was married to Delores Marie Lefkowitz, also known as Dee Davenport, in Yarmouth, Massachusetts.[3]

Education

O'Leary graduated from

Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967.[1]

Organizations

O'Leary became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1975.[1] From 1970–1976, he was the secretary of the American Geophysical Union's Planetology Section. In 1977, he worked on Asteroidal Resources Group, NASA Ames Summer Study on Space Settlements as team leader.[1]

Astronaut program

The members of NASA Astronaut Group 6. O'Leary is at the far right.

During his

planetary scientist in the NASA Astronaut Corps during the Apollo program.[9] In April 1968, O'Leary resigned from the Astronaut Corps prior to completing the training program.[10]

Academic career

After O'Leary's resignation from NASA, Carl Sagan invited him to lecture at Cornell University in 1968, where he stayed until 1971 as a research associate (1968–1969) and assistant professor (1969–1971) of astronomy. While at Cornell, he studied lunar mascons.[11][12] During the 1970–1971 academic year, O'Leary was deputy team leader of the Mariner 10 Venus-Mercury TV Science Team as a visiting researcher at the California Institute of Technology.[13][14][15][16][17] The team received NASA's group achievement award for its participation.[18] He later taught at San Francisco State University (associate professor of astronomy and interdisciplinary sciences; 1971–1972), the UC Berkeley School of Law (visiting associate professor; 1971–1972), Hampshire College (assistant professor of astronomy and science policy assessment; 1972–1975), Princeton University (research staff and lecturer in physics; 1976–1981) and California State University, Long Beach (visiting lecturer in physics; 1986–1987).[19][20]

At Princeton, he was involved with Gerard K. O'Neill and the L5 Society's orbiting city plans.[21][22][23][24] He suggested that passing asteroids and the moons of Mars would be the easiest to access resources for space colonies.[25][26][27][28][29][30][31]

O'Leary wrote and edited books on astronomy and astronautics.[32][33]

Political activities

O'Leary became politically active early in his career and participated in a demonstration in

Morris Udall's presidential campaign as an energy advisor, as well as for the U.S. House Interior Committee subcommittee on energy and the environment as Udall's special staff consultant on energy.[20] O'Leary worked for U.S. presidential candidates Jesse Jackson, Dennis Kucinich, George McGovern, and Walter Mondale.[9][36]

During those years, he wrote about the

Dnieper River.[42]

Frontiers of science

A remote viewing experience in 1979[43] and a near-death experience in 1982[44] initiated O'Leary's departure from orthodox science. After Princeton, O'Leary worked at Science Applications International Corporation.[20] He refused to work on military space applications, for which reason he lost his position there in 1987.[45] Beginning in 1987, O'Leary increasingly explored unorthodox ideas, particularly the relationship between consciousness and science, and became widely known for his writings on "the frontiers of science, space, energy and culture".[20][46]

Since the 1980s, he lectured at the

Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres.[47][48]

With artist Meredith Miller, his third wife and widow, he co-founded the Montesueños Eco-Retreat in Vilcabamba, Ecuador in 2008, which is devoted to "peace, sustainability, the arts and new science".[49]

Death

O'Leary contracted

intestinal cancer on July 28, 2011, soon after diagnosis, at his home in Vilcabamba
.

Publications

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f National Aeronautics and Space Administration (August 2011). "Astronaut Bio: Brian T. O'Leary". NASA. Archived from the original on December 26, 2016. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
  2. ISBN 978-0-9799176-4-6
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  3. ^ Certificate of Marriage: Barnstable 410
  4. S2CID 4292231
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  5. S2CID 38382948
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  6. S2CID 29060847
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  7. ^ O'Leary's PhD thesis: O'Leary, Brian T. (1967). Mars: Visible and Near Infrared Studies and the Composition of the Surface (PDF). Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley. Abstract in: Astronomical Journal. American Institute of Physics. 1967. p. 317.
  8. ISBN 978-0-671-77285-7
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  9. ^
    ISBN 978-0-387-21897-7
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  10. ISBN 978-0-671-77285-7
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  11. PMID 17780710
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  12. S2CID 44720892
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  13. ^ "C.V.of Dr. Brian O'Leary". Archived from the original on September 16, 2008.
  14. S2CID 25469486
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  15. S2CID 39925871
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  16. ISSN 1520-0469
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  17. ^ O'Leary, "Comments on Mariner 10 and Ground-based UV observations of Venus", Conference on the atmosphere of Venus, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, October 1974, pp. 63–68, and in same publication: O'Leary, "Stratospheric hazes from Mariner 10 limb pictures of Venus", pp. 129–132.
  18. ^ "appendix d". SP-424 The Voyage of Mariner 10. NASA. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
  19. ^ "Curriculum Vitaeand Selected Bibliography".
  20. ^ a b c d Shayler and Burgess, p. 524.
  21. doi:10.1179/030801879789768144
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  22. Bibcode:1980AsAer..18...46G
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  23. ISBN 978-0-8493-5890-6
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  24. ISBN 978-0-8493-5891-3
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  25. S2CID 45597532
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  26. ^ O'Leary, Brian (1983). Burke, James D.; Whitt, April S (eds.). "Mining the Earth-Approaching Asteroids for Their Precious and Strategic Metals". Advances in the Astronautical Sciences. Proceedings of Princeton Conference on Space Manufacturing. 53. San Diego, CA: American Astronautical Society: 375–389.; O'Leary, Brian (1984). McKay, Christopher (ed.). "Phobos & Deimos as Resource & Exploration Centers". The Case for Mars II. Presented at the 2nd Case For Mars conference, Boulder. 81–164. Boulder, Colorado: American Astronautical Society: 225–245.
  27. ^ O'Leary, Brian (1989). McKay, Christopher (ed.). "Mars 1999: A Concept for Low-Cost Near Term Human Exploration and Propulsion Processing on Phobos and Deimos". Case for Mars III. 204. American Astronautical Society.
  28. ISBN 978-0-942862-02-7
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  29. ^ O'Neill, G.; O'Leary, B., eds. (1977). Space Manufacturing from Nonterrestrial Materials – in Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics. vol. 57. AIAA.
  30. ^ Billingham, John; Gilbreath, William; O'Leary, Brian, eds. (1979). Space Resources and Space Settlements. SP-428. Washington, D.C.: NASA. Archived from the original on February 4, 2020. Retrieved December 17, 2010.
  31. ^ O'Leary, Brian; Gaffey, Michael J.; Ross, David J.; Salkeld, Robert (1979). "Retrieval of Asteroidal Materials". In John Billingham; William Gilbreath; Brian O'Leary (eds.). Space Resources and Space Settlements. SP-428. Washington, D.C.: NASA. pp. 142–154. Archived from the original on December 21, 2010. Retrieved December 17, 2010.
  32. ISBN 978-0-89696-079-4
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  33. ISBN 978-0-521-23881-6
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  34. ^ CBS Special - "Colleges, Cambodia, and Confrontation", originally aired on May 9, 1970.
  35. ISBN 978-0-9799176-4-6
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  36. ISBN 978-0-9799176-4-6
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  37. ^ O'Leary, B. (April 25, 1977). "Topics — Science — Or Stunts — On the Moon?". The New York Times.
  38. ^ O'Leary, B. (January 20, 1971). "The Wild Blue Space Shuttle". The New York Times.
  39. ^ O'Leary, B. (February 16, 1972). "Do We Really Want a Space Shuttle?". The New York Times.
  40. ^ O'Leary, B. (April 6, 1981). "Space Hawks: Military Race to Keep Shuttle Flying". The Globe and Mail.
  41. ^ O'Leary, B. (January 22, 1984). "Wanted: A Space Program that will Fly into the Future". Los Angeles Times.
  42. Soviet Life
    : 16. February 1990.
  43. ISBN 978-1-55643-068-8
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  44. ISBN 978-1-55643-068-8
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  45. ISBN 978-0-9799176-4-6
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  46. ISBN 978-1-55643-152-4
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  47. ISBN 978-0-9647826-0-0
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  48. ISBN 978-0-939040-37-7
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  49. ^ "Montesuenos: A center for peace, sustainability, the arts and new science". Montesueños Eco-Retreat. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
  50. ^ "Decades of Magical Thinking: Dr. Brian O'Leary's Final Years - National Space Society". April 16, 2020.

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