Ken Money Explained

Honorific Suffix:MSC
Ken Money
Type:NRC/CSA astronaut
Birth Date:4 January 1935
Birth Place:Toronto, Canada
Death Place:Toronto, Canada
Occupation:Scientist
Selection:1983 NRC Group
Mission:None

Kenneth Eric Money (January 4, 1935 – March 6, 2023) was a Canadian scientist specialising in the human ear and an Olympic high jumper. He worked at the Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine in Toronto. He published over one hundred science articles and authored six different topics in the World Book Encyclopedia.

Education

Money attended North Toronto Collegiate Institute for high school. He then enrolled at the University of Toronto and earned a Bachelor of Science in physiology and chemistry in 1958, a Master of Science in physiology in 1959, and a Ph.D. in physiology in 1961.

Sports

In 1956, Money competed in the Olympic Games and placed fifth in the high jump.[1] His personal best in this event was 2.03 m.[2]

Research

Some of his contributions in the scientific field include knowledge of the inner ear, motion sickness, disorientation, and biological effects of space flight. Other of Money's interests included badminton, skiing, acrobatic flying, skydiving, fishing, and reading.

Money was selected by the National Research Council of Canada as an astronaut candidate in December 1983, but left the Canadian Astronaut Corps in 1992 without having flown in space. He acted as Spacelab Payload Operations Controller for a Spacelab mission in 1992. During the same mission, Money served as the alternate astronaut, having the capability to fly if needed.

Money is credited with the invention of an experimental surgical operation called semicircular canal plugging, which is now being used in North America and Europe to treat particular types of dizzy spells. He also worked part-time as a professor of physiology for the University of Toronto and regularly lectured to undergraduate classes.

Personal life and death

Ken Money had a brother Bill, who predeceased him. Ken died at the Sunnybrook Veterans Centre in Toronto, on March 6, 2023. He was 88, and he was survived by his wife, Sheila Money (née Donnelly). They married around 1958 and had a daughter.[3]

Awards and service

In 1994, he was awarded the Meritorious Service Cross by the Governor General of Canada for his many contributions to science and technology.[4]

Money was also a member of the volunteer Board of Governors of the National Space Society, a non-profit space advocacy group founded by Wernher von Braun.

External links

https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/theglobeandmail/name/kenneth-money-obituary?id=49650839

Notes and References

  1. Book: Wallechinsky. David. David Wallechinsky. Loucky. Jaime. 2012. The Complete Book of the Olympics 2012 Edition. 211. London. Aurum Press. 978-1-84513-695-6.
  2. https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/66179 Ken Money
  3. Web site: Kenneth Eric Money . Legacy . 8 March 2023.
  4. Web site: Mr. Kenneth Money . . 8 March 2023.