Ronald A. Parise

American astronaut (1951–2008)

Ronald A. Parise is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.

The record lists Ronald A. Parise as American astronaut (1951–2008).

Ronald A. Parise was born at Warren in 1951. His recorded nationality is United States.

Modern exploration moved to the places the body cannot survive unaided: the deep ocean, the upper atmosphere and orbit, reached by engineering as much as by nerve.

He is recorded as astronaut.

What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.

Ronald A. Parise died in 2008, aged 57. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.

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