Watch the VideoColonel Robert F. Overmyer was an American test pilot, naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, physicist, United States Marine Corps officer, and USAF/NASA astronaut.
He was selected as a NASA astronaut in 1969 after the cancellation of the Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory. Overmyer served support crew duties for the Apollo program, Skylab program, and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. He addresses the City Club to share his experiences piloting the space shuttle Columbia through a five-day space mission in November, 1982.
A native of Westlake, Overmeyer graduated from Baldwin-Wallace College and holds a Master of Science degree in aeronautics from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.
