Dr. James Logan

Dr. Jim Logan's interest in space began in 1957 when the former Soviet Union launched the first Sputnik. Encouraged by a librarian and an elementary school science teacher, he read everything he could find on space. His tenacity and youthful enthusiasm eventually convinced administrators at his hometown university (University of Tulsa) to grant him permission to take a college course in Astronomy in 1960 at age ten. Upon passing the course, he was invited to attend the First National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Space (May 1961) where he met James Webb, NASA's first administrator, and the famous rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun.

Seventeen years later, he was accepted into NASA's first residency program in Aerospace Medicine. Upon completing his residency and his Master's Degree, he was assigned to Johnson Space Center in Houston in July 1981 where he became a personal physician to the astronauts and their dependents. Promoted to Chief of Flight Medicine in 1982 and Chief of Medical Operations in 1984, he was Mission Control Surgeon, Deputy Crew Surgeon or Crew Surgeon for the first twenty-five space shuttle missions.

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