Anthony Llewellyn

John Anthony Llewellyn(22 April 1933 – 2 July 2013) was a Welsh-born American chemist, a formerNASAastronautcandidate, and aNOAAaquanaut.

Anthony Llewellyn
Born	John Anthony Llewellyn (1933-04-22)22 April 1933 Cardiff,Wales,U.K
Died	2 July 2013(2013-07-02)(aged 80) Madeira Beach, Florida,U.S.
Education	Cardiff University(BS,MS,PhD)
Space career
NASA astronautcandidate
Selection	NASA Group 6 (1967)

Biography

Llewellyn was born inCardiff,Wales, and graduated fromCardiff High Schoolin 1949. He received hisBScdegree fromUniversity College, Cardiffin 1955 and went on to achieve hisPhDdegree in chemistry in 1958. He married Valerie Mya Davies-Jones, and they had three children.

Early career

After the award of his doctorate, Llewellyn moved toOttawa,Ontario, Canada, as a post-doctoral fellow at theNational Research Council.In 1960, he went toFlorida State Universityas a research associate in the Chemistry Department and was subsequently appointedassistant professor.In 1964, he was jointly appointedassociate professorin the School of Engineering Science and the Department of Chemistry.

Diving

Having been taught to dive byJacques Cousteau,Llewellyn served as training director for Florida State University's diver training program.This was one of the firstscuba divingcertification programs in the United States. Among those he certified was sixteen year oldE. Lee Spence,who received his certification on 10 July 1964. Spence went on to become one of the pioneers ofunderwater archaeology.Llewellyn's diving gave him experience in the feeling of weightlessness, which helped prepare him for his later training as an astronaut.

NASA selection

Llewellyn was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in August 1967,one of two non-US citizens selected.He participated in flight training as part ofNASA Astronaut Group 6;however, he dropped out of flight school and resigned from NASA in September 1968.Llewellyn needed to learn to fly jets, and was not able to fly the jet with the cockpit blacked out.

Post-NASA career

In 1971, Llewellyn joined the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where for almost five years he was one of the four-person crew ofHydrolab,on the ocean floor in theBahamas.

From 1971, Llewellyn was a full professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at theUniversity of South Florida,where he also served as Director of the College of Engineering's computing department, and later as University Director of Academic Computing, helping to initiate the university's courses inHigh-Performance Computingand electronic and distance learning.He retired from the directorship in 2007 and was ProfessorEmeritusin the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering until his death. His research interests included methods of drug and gene delivery.His then current work was presented at the 2010 American Society for Gene and Cell Therapy and he was an invited session leader at the 2010 Gordon Conference in Bioelectrochemistry.

Death

Llewellyn died on 2 July 2013 following a stroke.

Further reading

• David Shayler;Colin Burgess(2007).NASA's Scientist-Astronauts.Springer.ISBN9780387218977.