Alvin Drew

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Alvin Drew
Alvin Drew
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on July 26, 2000
( 18th NASA Group )
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		August 8, 2007
Landing of the
last space flight: 		March 9, 2011
Time in space: 25d 13h 00min
EVA inserts: 2
EVA total duration: 12h 48min
Space flights

Benjamin Alvin "Al" Drew, Jr. (born November 5, 1962 in Washington, DC , USA ) is an American astronaut .

education

Drew graduated in 1980 from high school and then studied at the United States Air Force Academy (USAF) in Colorado Springs ( Colorado ). He left USAFA in 1984 with two bachelor's degrees - one in aerospace engineering and one in physics. Nine years later, he earned a Masters in Aerospace Engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida . The Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama awarded him another Masters in Political Science in 2006 .

Military career

After completing his bachelor's degree, he was trained as a helicopter pilot by the US Air Force and received his license in March 1985. Over the next seven years, he participated in many combat missions on behalf of the Air Force Special Operations Command : the US invasion of Panama ( Operation Just Cause) in December 1989, the second Gulf War with Operations Desert Shield (from August 1990) and Desert Storm (from January 1991) as well as Operation Provide Comfort with which the US troops helped refugees in the Kurdish areas from April 1991 .

Back in the USA, Drew trained as an airplane and test pilot in 1992. Before moving to NASA, he tried out new types of aircraft and worked in the Air Combat Command in Virginia .

Astronaut activity

Drew was selected by NASA as a candidate astronaut in July 2000. Following the two-year basic training, he worked in the space station operations department of the astronauts office.

STS-118

In August 2007, Drew completed his first space flight with STS-118 . He was named for this mission at short notice after Clayton Anderson , who was originally supposed to fly to the ISS on this mission, started a flight earlier ( STS-117 ). This freed up the space in the Endeavor for Drew.

STS-133

On September 18, Drew was nominated as a mission specialist for the STS-133 mission to the ISS. The take-off took place on February 24, 2011, the landing on March 9, 2011. Drew made two spacecraft missions with Stephen Bowen .

See also

Web links

Commons : B. Alvin Drew  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NASA names crew for final space shuttle mission. Spaceflight Now, September 18, 2009, accessed September 19, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Drew, Alvin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drew, Al; Drew, Benjamin Alvin Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC , USA