Astronaut

Filename: Morgan, Mark Jr.
Primary Military Speciality: Astronaut
Secondary Military Speciality: Fixed Wing Pilot
Birthplace: Cape Canaveral, Florida
Grade: O-6 (Colonel)

PAYLOAD grew up watching the early space shots blasting off through the Florida sky. He stared through the hurricane fence and rode that flaming booster in his dreams. But unlike others, he worked on making that dream reality by joining the Air Force. he flew F-4 Phantoms over southeast Asia for three tours "just paying his dues" and upon his return stateside, signed up for the astronaut training progrma.

"Here's a guy who has spent most of his waking hours working on getting himself into space. Sometimes, as he's executing a complicated maneuver in free-fall or when he's cutting in his boosters, he seems to be chanting softly under his breath. If you turn up the volume on the ship-to-ship channel and listen very carefully, you can hear him quite clearly: 'Vrooom! Vrooom!'"

Supplied with the Crusader. Payload was not released in the UK.