Sonny Carter

Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr. was an American physician and NASA astronaut. He was born on 15 August 1947 in Macon, Georgia, and earned a bachelor of arts in chemistry from Emory University in 1969 and a doctorate of medicine from Emory in 1973. From 1970 to 1973 he was also a professional soccer player for the Atlanta Chiefs of the North American Soccer League. NASA selected him on 23 May 1984 in group NASA-10. He flew once, as a mission specialist on STS-33 aboard the shuttle Discovery from 23 to 28 November 1989, a flight of 5 days and 6 minutes. He died on 5 April 1991 in Brunswick, Georgia, in the crash of an Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight while traveling on NASA business.