Andrew Jay Feustel

Andrew Jay Feustel
Country:	United States
Organization:	NASA
selected on	July 26, 2000 ( 18th NASA Group )
Calls:	3 space flights
Start of the first space flight:	May 11, 2009
Landing of the last space flight:	4th October 2018
Time in space:	225d 09h 15min
EVA inserts:	9
EVA total duration:	61h 48min
Space flights
STS-125 (2009) STS-134 (2011) Soyuz MS-08 (2018) ISS expedition 55 ISS expedition 56

Andrew Jay "Drew" Feustel (born August 25, 1965 in Lancaster , Pennsylvania , USA ) is an American astronaut .

education

Feustel graduated from Lake Orion High School. He then studied geology at Purdue University and graduated in 1989 with a bachelor's degree . There he also obtained a master's degree in geophysics in 1991 . In 1995 received his doctorate Feustel at the Canadian Queen's University in Kingston , Ontario in geosciences, especially seismology .

Activity in industry

Andrew Feustel then worked as a geophysicist for the Engineering Seismology Group in Kingston, installing and operating seismic monitoring equipment in mines in eastern Canada and the United States. In 1997, he joined the ExxonMobil Exploration Company in Houston , Texas to work as a geophysicist developing and overseeing seismic monitoring programs on land, at sea and in wellbores worldwide.

Astronaut activity

In 2000 he was elected to NASA's 18th astronaut group and trained as a mission specialist for two years. His specialty is technical support for space work.

STS-125

Feustel took part as a mission specialist in the space shuttle mission STS-125 , which started on May 11, 2009 for the final maintenance of the Hubble space telescope . The landing took place on May 24, 2009 at Edwards Air Force Base .

STS-134

On August 11, 2009, Feustel was nominated for the STS-134 shuttle mission . The launch of this last mission of the space shuttle Endeavor took place on May 16, 2011, the landing on June 1.

Feustel had a plush version of the little mole on board for this mission . Feustel described the flight with the plush figure: “On the International Space Station, the mole floated around most of the time. On his back he had to ensure that the astronauts could, if necessary, fix it on the wall and a Velcro closure. "In July 2011, Feustel flew with his family to Prague to the mole its inventor, the Czech painter and illustrator Zdeněk Miler to give. He was happy and thanked him with a framed picture. In November of the same year, Miler died at the age of 90.

ISS expedition 55/56

Feustel began his third space flight on March 21, 2018. As the flight engineer of the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft , he embarked on a six-month long-term ISS mission together with the Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemjew and his American colleague Richard Arnold . There he worked as a flight engineer for Expedition 55 and took command of Expedition 56 on June 3, 2018 . On October 4, 2018, he returned to Earth with Artemjew and Arnold.

Private

Feustel is married and has two sons. His hobbies are restoring old cars, skiing and playing guitar. He is a member of the Max Q astronaut band .

See also

• List of spacemen

Web links

Commons : Andrew J. Feustel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Andrew Jay Feustel on the NASA website - biography, pictures and videos (English; PDF)
• NASA: Mission page STS-125 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NASA Assigns Crew for STS-134 Shuttle Mission, Change to STS-132. NASA, August 11, 2009, accessed August 12, 2009 . 
2. ↑ Michael Heitmann: Endeavor astronaut gives presents to father of the "Little Mole". Digitalfernsehen.de, July 30, 2011, accessed January 25, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Pictures of Feustel at the handover of the little mole in Czechia + article (Zemřel Zdeněk Miler. Otec Krtka, kterého nám závidí Hollywood). iDNES.cz, November 30, 2011, accessed on January 25, 2016 (cZ). 
4. ^ NASA: Launches and Landings. Retrieved September 30, 2018 . 
5. ↑ NASA biography of Andrew Jay Feustel (English; PDF)
6. ↑ spacefacts.de: short biography