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ABOUT THE NBL
Who was Sonny Carter?
Manley L. "Sonny" Carter Jr.
Aug. 15, 1947 – April 5, 1991

Johnson Space Center named the NBL training facility near Ellington Field in 1995 in honor of the late astronaut M. L. "Sonny" Carter, who was instrumental in developing many of the current space-walking techniques used by the astronauts. Carter was selected into the astronaut program in 1984. His first mission was aboard STS-33. He was training as a crew member aboard STS-42 when on April 5, 1991, he died in a commuter plane crash near New Brunswick, Georgia. Before he became an astronaut, Carter was a Navy doctor and aviator, and a soccer player for the North American Soccer league.


Sonny Carter Training Facility - Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory
Johnson Space Center
Houston, Texas

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Last Updated: May 30, 2012