Fourth Human to walk on Moon. (Apollo 12)
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Showing posts with label Astronauts and Cosmonauts.. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
Alan LaVern Bean (1932-)
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Marc Garneau (1949-)
The First Canadian in Space.
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Bruce McCandless II (1937-)
American astronaut who became the first human to conduct an untethered extravehicular activity (EVA) in space. Selected by NASA as one of 19 new astronauts in April 1966, McCandless was appointed a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and backup pilot for Skylab 2. He was a co-investigator on the M-509 astronaut maneuvering unit experiment flown during the Skylab Program, collaborated on the development of the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) used during Shuttle EVAs, and has been responsible for crew inputs to the development of hardware and procedures for the Inertial Upper Stage, Hubble Space Telescope, the Solar Maximum Repair Mission, and the International Space Station program. McCandless was a mission specialist on the tenth Shuttle flight (STS 41-B), on Feb. 3, 1984, during which the MMU and the Manipulator Foot Restraint were tested in space for the first time. McCandless made free flights on each of the two MMUs carried on board and took part in other activities during two spectacular EVAs. The eight-day orbital flight of Challenger culminated in the first landing on the runway at the Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 11, 1984. More recently, McCandless was a mission specialist on the crew of STS-31, launched on Apr. 24, 1990. Currently, he is on the staff of Martin Marietta Astronautics Company, in Denver, Colorado.
Richard Francis Gordon Jr. (1929-)
American astronaut who walked in space during the Gemini 11 mission and orbited the Moon on Apollo 12. Gordon received a B.S. from the University of Washington in 1951 before entering the United States Navy and serving as a flight test pilot. In 1960 he joined Fighter Squadron 121 at the Miramar, California Naval Air Station as a flight instructor and won the Bendix Trophy Race from Los Angeles to New York in May 1961, setting a new speed record of 1,399 km/h and a transcontinental record of 2 hours 47 minutes. He was selected as an astronaut in 1963 and made his first spaceflight as pilot alongside Charles Conrad on the three-day Gemini 11 mission in 1966. Gordon and Conrad served together again in 1969 aboard Apollo 12, with Gordon as Command Module pilot. In 1971, Gordon became chief of advanced programs for the Astronaut Office and worked on design and testing of the Space Shuttle and development equipment. A year later he retired from NASA and the Navy to become executive vice president of the New Orleans Saints American football team. He is currently president of Space Age America, Inc.
Joseph Peter Kerwin (1932-)
American astronaut who, as science pilot aboard the first Skylab mission in 1973, became not only the first medical doctor to practice in orbit but the first space repairman. He received a B.A. in philosophy from College of Holy Cross in 1953 and a M.D. from Northwestern University Medical School in 1957. Kerwin completed his internship at the District of Columbia General Hospital, then joined the United States Navy and attended the Navy School of Aviation Medicine at Pensacola, Florida. He became a naval flight surgeon in 1958 and earned his wings in 1962. NASA selected Kerwin in its first group of six scientist-astronauts in June 1965. Following his mission aboard Skylab, Kerwin became director of Space and Life Sciences at the Johnson Space Center. He then resigned from NASA and from the Navy as a captain and from 1987-96 held management positions with Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space Company. He presently heads Krug Life Sciences, Inc., which has a major research contract with NASA.
Edward G. Gibson (1936-)
American astronaut who set a joint United States space endurance record of 84 days as science pilot on Skylab 4. During his 14-year career with NASA, Gibson also served on the support crew of the Apollo 12 mission and as the ground communicator with the flight crew while they explored the Moon. He earned Air Force wings, a B.S. in engineering from the University of Rochester, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in engineering and physics from the California Institute of Technology. Currently, he is the president of Gibson International Corp., California, and engaged in consulting, speaking, and writing.
Owen K. Garriott (1930-)
American astronaut and scientist who flew aboard Skylab 3 in 1973 and the Space Shuttle Columbia a decade later. Garriott received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Oklahoma (1953) and a M.S. (1957) and Ph.D. (1960) in electrical engineering from Stanford University. Following graduation from Oklahoma, he served as an electronics officer aboard several destroyers while on active duty with the United States Navy (1953-56). From 1961 to 1965, he taught electronics and ionospheric physics as an associate professor at Stanford, before being selected by NASA among the first group of scientist-astronauts. Aboard Skylab, Garriott made extensive observations of the Sun during a period of intense solar activity. In November 1983, he returned to orbit aboard Columbia and helped conduct medical, astronomy, Earth survey, atmospheric, and materials processing experiments on the first Spacelab mission. Subsequently, Garriott was appointed assistant director for space science at Johnson Space Center before leaving NASA. He is currently vice president of Space Programs at Teledyne Brown Engineering.
Paul J. Weitz (1932-)
American astronaut who served as the command module pilot on Skylab 2 in 1973 and commander of the sixth Space Shuttle flight in 1983. Weitz received a B.S. in aeronautical engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1954 and a M.S. in aeronautical engineering from the United States Naval Postgraduate School in 1964. Subsequently, he served in various naval squadrons until NASA selected him as an astronaut in 1966. Weitz remained with NASA after his second spaceflight and became deputy director of the Johnson Space Center.
David Scott (1932-)
American astronaut who was the pilot on Gemini 8, Command Module pilot onApollo 9, and commander of Apollo 15. Scott received a B.S. from the United States Military Academy in 1954 and a M.S. in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962. He entered the Air Force and graduated from the Experimental Test Pilot School and Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base before being selected by NASA as an astronaut in 1963. Later, he held Administrative posts with NASA, including director of the Dryden Flight Research Center. Scott retired from the Air Force in 1975 as a colonel and is currently president of Scott Science and Technology, Inc.
"Man must explore. And this is exploration at it's greatest."
John Watts Young (1930-)
Veteran American astronaut who flew on Gemini 3 and 10, orbited the Moon on Apollo 10, walked on the Moon on Apollo 16, and commanded two Space Shuttle missions, STS-1 and STS-9. Born in San Francisco, Young received a B.S. in aeronautical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1952 before joined the Navy. He served on a destroyer for a year, then took flight training and was assigned to Fighter Squadron 103 for four years, flying Cougars and Crusaders. After training at the Navy Test Pilot School in 1959, he was assigned to the Naval Air Test Center for three years, setting time-to-climb records in a Phantom jet. He was later maintenance officer of Phantom Fighter Squadron 103 and retired from the Navy as a captain in 1976. Young was selected as an astronaut in 1962 and flew with Grissom on the first manned Gemini mission, Gemini 3, in 1965. During five hours in orbit, they accomplished several firsts for a manned spacecraft: changing the orbital path, operating a computer and lifting reentry. On Gemini 10, in 1966, Young and Michael Collins executed a dual rendezvous with two separate Agena satellites. On Apollo 10, in 1969, Young operated the Command Module while Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan flew the separated lunar module to within 10 miles of the Moon. Young commanded Apollo 16, in 1972, with Charlie Duke and Ken Mattingly. Young and Duke explored the lunar highlands at Descartes, drove a lunar rover 16 mi. and collected 90 kg of moon rocks. Young’s fifth flight was as commander of the first Space Shuttle mission, STS-1, on April 12, 1981, a 54.5-hour flight during which he and Crippen thoroughly tested the first reusable winged spacecraft. They guided Columbia to the first runway landing of a manned spaceship. Young was back in space aboard Columbia for the STS-9 mission, November 28 to December 8, 1983, with pilot Brewster Shaw, Bob Parker, Owen Garriott, Byron Lichtenberg and West German Ulf Merbold. In a Spacelab module in the cargo bay, the crew conducted science, metals processing and life sciences experiments. In 1973, Young was named Chief of the Space Shuttle Branch of the Astronaut Office. The following year, he was selected Chief of the Astronaut Office. He is currently the Associate Director (Technical) at Johnson Space Center.
Roger Bruce Chaffee (1935-1967)
American astronaut selected by NASA to fly on the first Apollo manned mission but who died on Jan. 27, 1967, along with crewmates GusGrissom and Edward White during a launch pad test at the Kennedy Space Center. Chaffee received a B.S. in aeronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1957 and immediately joined the Navy. Photographs taken while he piloted a U-2 spy plane in 1963 proved conclusively that the Soviet Union had installed offensive missiles in Cuba and were displayed by President Kennedy during a televised address. That same month, Chaffee was selected by NASA as a member of its third group of astronauts. He was assigned with Grissom and White to fly the first Apollo capsule on an 11-day mission in Earth orbit. However, a month before their scheduled launch, all three were killed aboard their capsule, during a countdown rehearsal, when a flash fire raced through their cabin
William Alison Anders (1933-)
American astronaut, selected with the third group of astronauts in 1963, who served as backup pilot for Gemini 11 and Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 8. Although a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Anders was a career Air Force officer. He resigned from NASA and active duty in the Air Force in September 1969 to become Executive Secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council. He joined the Atomic Energy Commission in 1973, was appointed chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 1974, and was named United States Ambassador to Norway in 1976. Later he worked in senior positions for General Electric, Textron, and General Dynamics.
Frank Borman (1928-)
American astronaut, selected by NASA in 1962, who commanded the Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 missions. He received a B.S. from West Point in 1950 and a M.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1957. From 1950 to 1970, Borman was a career Air Force officer serving as a fighter pilot in the Philippines, an operational pilot and instructor with various squadrons in the United States, an assistant professor of thermodynamics and fluid dynamics at West Point, and an experimental test pilot at the Air Force Aerospace Pilot School. After leaving NASA in 1969, Borman joined Eastern Airlines and rose to become chairman of its board in 1976. Today he is an official of the Patlex Corporation.
Gerald P. Carr (1932-)
Supported CapCom for Apollo 8 & Apollo 12.
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In mid-1974 Carr was appointed head of the design support group within the Astronaut Office, responsible for providing crew support to activities such as space transportation system design, simulations, testing, and safety assessment, and for the development of man/machine interface requirements. He retired from the Marine Corps in September 1975 and from NASA in June 1977. Carr went on to become President of CAMUS, Inc. of Little Rock, Arkansas, director of the Arkansas Aerospace Education Center in Little Rock, and a consultant on special staff to the president of Applied Research, Inc., Los Angeles. He has also worked with fellow astronaut William Pogue on Boeing’s contribution to theInternational Space Station, specializing in assembly extravehicular activity, responsible for providing crew support to activities such as space transportation system design, simulations, testing, and safety.
Marie Eileen Collins (1956-)
First woman to Command a Space Shuttle Mission.
The first woman to command a Space Shuttle mission. A United States Air Force colonel, Collins holds various degrees including a B.A. in mathematics and economics from Syracuse University in 1978, an M.S. in operations research from Stanford University in 1986, and an M.A. in space systems management from Webster University in 1989. Selected by NASA in January 1990, she became an astronaut in July 1991. Collins served as the first female pilot of the Shuttle on mission STS-63 (Feb. 2-11, 1995), during which the Shuttle completed its first docking with Mir. Again she piloted the Shuttle on the joint American-Russian mission STS-84 (May 15-24, 1997) before being appointed commander of STS-93 (Jul. 22-27, 1999), the highlight of which was the successful deployment of theChandra X-Ray Observatory. She returned to space in July 2005 as commander of Discovery on the first Shuttle flight following the loss of Columbia during reentry. She left NASA in 2006 to pursue private interests and spend more time with her family.
Eileen Collins first learnt about flying in books, and at the age of 16 began to save to pay for flying lessons. "My family never had the money to pay for flying lessons or... even a ride in an airplane," she said in an interview on the NASA website. "I had saved up $1,000, and I took that to my local airport, at age 19," she said. "I asked them to teach me how to fly." She began military pilot training for the Air Force in 1978, the same year NASA opened the Shuttle program to women.
Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev
He Became the Third Soviet Cosmonaut.
Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev was a Soviet Cosmonaut flew on two Space Flights Vostok 3/ Soyuz 9. He set new records for longest Time a human being Remained in Orbit. He Became the third Soviet Cosmonaut. Nikolayev survived an assassination attempt on Leonid Brezhnev, undertaken by Soviet Army officer Viktor Ilyin. He left the cosmonaut corps on January 26, 1982.Nikolayev was also the first person to make a television broadcast from space, in August 1962. Vostok 3 was part the first dual space flight, with Pavel Popovich on Vostok 4.
On November 3, 1963, he married Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to fly in space (see Vostok 6). They had one daughter, Elena Andriyanovna (now a Doctor of Medicine), before their marriage collapsed. However, it was not until 1982 that they divorced.
In 2004 Nikolayev Died of Heart Attack, He was Burried in a Native Village of Shorshely.
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (1937-)
First Woman in Space, First to Marry another Space Traveller.
Soviet cosmonaut who became the first woman in space. Tereshkova was born in Maslennikovo, near Yaroslavl in western Russia. Her father was a tractor driver and her mother worked in a textile plant. Tereshkova began school at age eight, but withdrew to work in the same factory as her mother at age 16. She continued her education through correspondence courses, during which time she parachuted as a hobby.
When Tereshkova was selected for the Soviet space program in 1962, she became the first person to be recruited without experience as a test pilot, her selection being based instead on her parachuting skills. Tereshkova was assigned to be the pilot of Vostok 6 and given the radio name "Chaika," Russian for "seagull." The Vostok craft lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome on June 16, 1963. It remained in space for nearly three days and orbited the Earth 48 times, once every 88 minutes. In a departure from earlier Soviet spaceflights, Tereshkova was allowed to operate the controls manually. The craft reentered Earth's atmosphere on June 19 and Tereshkova parachuted to the ground, in the manner typical of cosmonauts at this time. She landed, bruising her nose on impact, approximately 610 km northeast of Qaraghandy, Kazakhstan. It would be another 19 years before the next woman, Svetlana Savitskaya, flew in space.
Tereshkova became a member of the Communist party and a representative of the Soviet government. She also married in November 1963, to fellow cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev. The following year the couple had their first and only child, Elena – the first child whose parents had both traveled in space.
Tereshkova became the First to be married to another space traveller, Vostok 3/ Soyuz 9 Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev.
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Sally kristen Ride. (1951-)
First American Woman to fly in Space.
The first American woman to fly in space. Ride was chosen as an astronaut in 1978 and served as a mission specialist for the Space Shuttle flight STS-7 (1983) and as a mission specialist on STS 41 G (1984). Following theChallenger disaster she was elected as a member of the presidential commission to investigate the accident, and chaired a NASA task force (1986-87) that prepared a report on the future of the civilian space program. Ride resigned from NASA in 1987 to join the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University. In 1989 she assumed the directorship of the California Space Institute, part of the University of California at San Diego.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Kathryn. D Sullivan (1951-)
First American Woman to walk in Space.
The first American woman to walk in space. A veteran of three Space Shuttleflights, Sullivan was a mission specialist on STS-41G (October 1984), STS-31 (April 1990), and STS-45 (March-April 1992). She received a B.S. in Earth sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz (1973) and a Ph.D. in geology from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia (1978). Sullivan left NASA in August 1992 to become chief scientist at NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and is currently president and CEO of Center of Science & Industry, Columbus, Ohio.
Sergei Avdeyev (1956-)
Longest Time in Space.
Sergei Avdeyev Soviet Cosmonaut (Russian) who selected in 1987, until august 2005 sergei held the record for the longest time in spent in space (747 days).This was accumulated during three stays aboard Mir: Jul. 27, 1992-Feb. 1, 1993 (188.9 days), Sep. 3, 1995-Feb. 29, 1996 (179.1 days), and Aug. 13, 1998-Feb. 28, 1999 (379.6 days). On these missions, Avdeyev carried out 10 spacewalks lasting a total of 42 hours. On Aug. 16, 2005, he was surpassed by his compatriot Sergei Krikalev as the longest-duration spacefarer.
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