William A. Pailes
United States Air Force
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1952-06-26
Status Retired
Type Payload Specialist
Astronaut Biography
William Arthur Pailes (Colonel, USAF) (born June 26, 1952) was a USAF astronaut in the Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program during the mid-1980s. He served as a Payload Specialist on STS-51-J Atlantis (October 3–7, 1985).
