In his 40 years at Space Sciences Lab, Dr Lampton has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator for several space missions, both unmanned (EUVE, IMAGE, MENA) and manned (Apollo-Soyuz EUVT, FAUST, ORFEUS) and served as a Payload Specialist Astronaut for STS-9 and STS45 “SpaceLab” shuttle missions. He is presently supporting the international Dark Energy Spectroscopy Investigation
(DESI) team and advising the FUEGO wildfire networking group at Berkeley.