![]() Explorers Club Lowell Thomas Award (2008).Arkansas Aviation Hall of Fame (2008). ![]() Ellis Island Family Heritage Award (2005).NASA Distinguished Service Medals (2002, 2009).NASA Exceptional Service Medals (1998, 1999).Space Station Team Excellence Award (1996).Wilderness Medical Society Research Award (1991).NASA-Ames Certificate of Recognition (1990).Research Honors Award from Stanford Medical School (1989).Stanford Medical Scholars Program (1988).NASA Graduate Student Researcher's Award (1988).National Institutes of Health Predoctoral Training Award in Cancer Biology (1983).Boy Scouts of America Eagle Scout (1977).He subsequently founded Fluidity Technologies based on his intellectual property, a company aiming to manufacture and distribute novel control devices for mobility in 3-D space, for everything from drones and computer games to VR and surgical robotics. In 2014, Parazynski was appointed as a professor of practice at Arizona State University, and was designated ASU's first University Explorer. He is president of the board of directors of the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, and serves on the boards of the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the University of Texas McDonald Observatory and OceanGate. Additionally, he is a member of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology, the Wilderness Medical Society, the American Alpine Club, the Association of Space Explorers, the Experimental Aircraft Association, and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. Parazynski is a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association and The Explorers Club. He had completed 22 months of a residency program in emergency medicine in Denver, Colorado, when selected for the NASA Astronaut Corps. He served his medical internship at the Brigham and Women's Hospital of Harvard Medical School (1990). He received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Stanford University in 1983, continuing on to graduate with honors from Stanford Medical School in 1989. He attended high school at the Community School, Tehran, Iran, and the American Community School, Athens, Greece, graduating in 1979. In March 1969 as an eight-year-old, he travelled to Florida to witness the launch of Apollo 9, an event he argued inspired him to pursue a career in science. Parazynski attended junior high school in Dakar, Senegal, and Beirut, Lebanon. He also travelled aboard OceanGate's submersible Titan and visited the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic. Other notable expeditions include a scientific dive into the summit caldera lake atop Licancabur Volcano (19,409 feet (5,916 m) on the Bolivian-Chilean border), one of the world's highest lakes, and setting the first bootprints adjacent Masaya Volcano 's lava lake in Nicaragua with Sam Cossman in 2016. Serving as team physician for the Discovery Channel a year later, at 4:00 am on May 20, 2009, he successfully summitted the 29,029 feet (8,848 m) mountain. He first attempted to summit Mount Everest in May 2008, but was forced to turn back before the summit due to a severe back injury. As a mountaineer, his summits include Cerro Aconcagua (at 22,841 feet (6,962 m) above sea level, the tallest mountain in the world outside Asia) and all 59 of Colorado's peaks over 14,000 feet (4,300 m) in altitude. ![]() A commercial, multi-engine, seaplane and instrument-rated pilot, Parazynski has logged over 2500 flight hours in a variety of aircraft. Scott enjoys mountaineering, rock climbing, flying and scuba diving. He has two children with his first wife, Gail. He is married to Meenakshi Wadhwa, a planetary scientist at Arizona State University. He considers Palo Alto, California, and Evergreen, Colorado, to be his hometowns. Parazynski is of Polish descent, as his great-great-grandparents migrated from Kraków to the US. He describes his life's experiences in his memoir The Sky Below. He is the first person to have both flown in space and summited Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. ![]() He retired from NASA in March 2009 to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities in the private sector, and he is currently the CEO of a technology start-up. In May 2016 he was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame. A veteran of five Space Shuttle flights and seven spacewalks, Parazynski's latest mission was STS-120 in October 2007 – highlighted by a dramatic, unplanned EVA to repair a live solar array. Scott Edward Parazynski (born July 28, 1961, in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. ![]()
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