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The most amazing thing about space travel is… the view out
the window and weightlessness.
A good day for me is when… I feel like I've actually accomplished
something.
My favorite food in orbit was… ambrosia (don't ask).
If you asked my students about me they would probably
say… I'm grumpy.
When I was a young boy I always wanted to be… an engineer
and work with machinery.
Very few people know that I have a secret passion for… high
performance, sporty convertibles.
Born in Lewistown, loren Acton attended a one-room country school until the
7th grade when his dad sold the ranch and they moved to Billings. He is a solar physi-
cist who orbited earth on Space Lab 2 as a Payload Specialist. He has a bachelor of
science degree in Engineering Physics from Montana State University and a Doctor of
Philosophy in Solar Physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He currently
teaches in the Department of Physics at Montana State University.
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