NAME:  Ellen S. Baker (M.D.)
       NASA Astronaut
 
BIRTHPLACE AND DATE:  Born April 27, 1953, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, but
considers New York as her hometown.  Her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Melvin Shulman,
reside in Beechhurst, New York.
 
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:  Brown hair; brown eyes; 5 feet 9 inches; 140 pounds.
 
EDUCATION:  Graduated from Bayside High School, New York, New York, in 1970;
received a bachelor of arts degree in geology from the State University of New
York at Buffalo in 1974, and a doctorate in Medicine degree from Cornell
University in 1978.
 
MARITAL STATUS:  Married to Kenneth J. Baker.  His parents, Mr. and Mrs. James
Baker, reside in Columbus, Ohio.
 
CHILDREN:  Karen Sarah, September 18, 1988; Meredith Claire, March 7, 1991.
 
RECREATIONAL INTERESTS:  She enjoys swimming, skiing, running, softball,
movies, music, and reading.
 
EXPERIENCE:  After completing medical school, Dr. Baker trained in internal
medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
In 1981, after three years of training, she was certified by the American Board
of Internal Medicine.
 
NASA EXPERIENCE:  In 1981, following her residency, Dr. Baker joined NASA as a
medical officer at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.  That same year, she
graduated from the Air Force Aerospace Medicine Primary Course at Brooks Air
Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.  Prior to her selection as an astronaut
candidate she served as a physician in the Flight Medicine Clinic at the
Johnson Space Center.
 
Selected by NASA in May 1984, Dr. Baker became an astronaut in June 1985.  Her
technical assignments to date have included flight crew procedures, flight
software verification, operations and engineering support activities, Space
Station support activities.
 
Dr. Baker was a mission specialist on STS-34.  The crew aboard Shuttle Orbiter
Atlantis launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on October 18, 1989, and
landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on October 23, 1989.  During the
mission crew members successfully deployed the Galileo spacecraft on its
journey to explore Jupiter, operated the Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet
Instrument (SSBUV) to map atmospheric ozone, conducted several medical
experiments, and numerous scientific experiments.  Mission duration was 79
orbits of the earth.  With the completion of this flight, Dr. Baker has logged
a total of 119 hours and 41 minutes in space.
 
CURRENT ASSIGNMENT:  Dr. Baker is assigned as a mission specialist on the crew
of STS-50, scheduled for launch aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in the summer
of 1992.  STS-50 will be the first flight of the United States Microgravity
Laboratory.  Over a two-week period the STS-50 flight crew will conduct a wide
variety of experiments relating to materials processing in a microgravity
environment.
 
APRIL 1992