Ellison Onizuka made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Ellison Onizuka as American astronaut from Kealakekua, Kona, Hawaii, first Asian American to reach space, later died in the Space Shuttle Challenger accident.
Ellison Onizuka was born at Kailua-Kona in 1946. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and University of Colorado.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Ellison Onizuka is described as military officer, astronaut and engineer.
His affiliations include National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
His work was formally recognised with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, NASA Distinguished Service Medal and Eagle Scout.
Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 1986, at 40. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Affiliated with National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Educated at U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, University of Colorado and Konawaena High School
- Worked as military officer, astronaut and engineer
