NAME:  Robert J. Cenker
       Payload Specialist
 
BIRTHPLACE:  Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
 
EDUCATION:  Graduated from Uniontown Joint Senior High School, Uniontown,
Pennsylvania; received bachelor's and master's degrees in aerospace
engineering, Penn State University; and a master's degree in electrical
engineering, Rutgers University.
 
RESIDENCE:  East Windsor, New Jersey.
 
MARITAL STATUS:  Married to Barbara Ann Cenker.
 
CHILDREN:  Daniel Joseph, Brian Joseph, and Laura Ann.
 
ORGANIZATIONS:  Associate fellow and former chairman of the Princeton Section,
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
 
SPECIAL HONORS AND AWARDS:  Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Gamma Tau.
 
PUBLICATIONS:  Written a number of articles on spacecraft technology and holds
a patent for an orientation system for a spin stabilized spacecraft.
 
EXPERIENCE:
 
Prior to 1972  Westinghouse Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, West Mifflin,
Pennsylvania, and was a research assistant at Penn State.
 
1972-Present  RCA Astro-Electronics Division, East Windsor, New Jersey.  Senior
Staff Engineer.
 
Joined RCA as an Engineer working in advanced stabilization and control.  Much
of his career has been spent in the design and development of communications
satellites, including RCA Satcoms 1 and 2, the GTE Spacenet satellites, and the
advanced Series 4000 spacecraft.  In addition, he served as System Engineer on
the U.S. Navy NOVA navigation satellite program.
 
Served as Manager, Satcom System Engineering.  Responsible for assuring
technical acceptability of all aspects of the spacecraft for various satellite
programs.  Helped develop and build RCA's Series 4000 communications
spacecraft. The first of these satellites, designated Ku-1, is scheduled to be
launched via Space Shuttle in late November of 1985.
 
Registered New Jersey Professional Engineer.
 
CURRENT ASSIGNMENT:  Mr. Cenker has been selected by NASA to serve as the prime
payload specialist on Space Shuttle Mission 61-C, scheduled for launch in late
December of 1985.
 
The RCA Satcom Ku-Band-1 satellite will be deployed from Orbiter Columbia
during Space Shuttle Mission 61-C, and Mr. Cenker will perform experiments with
an infrared camera developed at RCA's David Sarnoff Research Center, Princeton,
New Jersey, and manufactured at Astro- Electronics.
 
OCTOBER 1985