What is Loren Acton?
[[File:Loren Acton.jpg|right|200px]] '''Loren Wilber Acton''' (born March 7, 1936) is an [[Americans|American]] [[physicist]] and [[politician]]. He flew on [[Space Shuttle]] mission [[STS-51-F]] as a [[Payload Specialist]] for the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory. He was born [[Lewistown, Montana]]. He did scientific studies of the [[Sun]] and other [[celestial]] objects using advanced space instruments. He was a co-investigator on one of the [[Spacelab]] 2 solar experiments, the [[Solar Optical Universal Polarimeter]]. Acton ran for local office as a Montana state representative as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]], but lost the election in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.acton4montana.com/home.htm|title=Wrap Up of an Honorable (but losing) Campaign|work=Volunteers for Loren Acton|access-date=18 December 2012|archive-date=4 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171004214546/http://acton4montana.com/home.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat}} *[http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/acton-lw.html NASA Biography] *[http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/acton_loren.htm Spacefacts biography of Loren Acton] *[http://solar.physics.montana.edu/acton/ Loren Acton Academic Homepage] *[http://solar.physics.montana.edu Montana State University Solar Physics Group] *[http://www.physics.montana.edu Montana State University Physics Department] {{DEFAULTSORT:Acton, Loren}} [[Category:1936 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American physicists]] [[Category:American astronauts]] [[Category:Politicians from Montana]] [[Category:Scientists from Montana]] [[Category:Democratic Party (United States) politicians]] {{US-bio-stub}}