(Born 1 October 1939, Cincinnati, Ohio, US)
Award-winning physicist, space scientist, inventor in the space shuttle flight mission and elsewhere in aeronautics and astronomical research, involvement in expansive outreach programme for youth science education especially around Washington DC
(Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra, Interstellar Low Ways [personnel: Sun Ra, piano, gong; Phil Cohran, cornet; George Hudson, trumpet; Nate Pryor, trombone; James Spaulding, flute; Marshall Allen, alto saxophone, flute, bells; John Gilmore, tenor saxophone, percussion; Ronnie Boykins, bass, percussion, space gong; Jon Hardy, drums, percussion, gong; William Cochran, drums; Pat Patrick, percussion; Hobart Dotson, percussion; ensemble vocals; recorded: Saturn/Evidence/RCA Studios Chicago, US, 1959-1960, released 1966; producer: Alton Abraham])
