Brewster Hopkinson Shaw
| Brewster Shaw | |
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| Country: | United States |
| Organization: | NASA |
| selected on | January 16, 1978 ( 8th NASA Group ) |
| Calls: | 3 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
November 28, 1983 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
August 13, 1989 |
| Time in space: | 22d 5h 51min |
| retired on | October 1989 |
| Space flights | |
Brewster Hopkinson Shaw (born May 16, 1945 in Cass City , Michigan , USA ) is a retired American astronaut .
education
Shaw graduated from Cass City High School in Michigan in 1963. He then studied mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison , graduating in 1968 with a bachelor's degree and in 1969 a master's degree there with brilliant grades.
US Air Force
He joined the US Air Force in 1969 after successfully completing officers' school. He then flew various combat missions in the Vietnam War .
Later he was quickly trained as a test pilot and mainly flew the F-100 and F-4 fighters .
He completed a total of over 5,000 flight hours in over 30 jet aircraft, 644 of which were in combat over Vietnam .
NASA
In 1978 he was elected to NASA's 8th astronaut group and trained as a pilot for a year.
STS-9
Shaw had his first and longest space mission as a pilot of the STS-9 mission from November 28 to December 8, 1983 with the Columbia space shuttle , which included the Spacelab space laboratory for the first time . Under the command of astronaut legend John Young , who became the first person to fly into space for the sixth time on this mission, it was the first space flight with six space travelers. At the same time, this was the first NASA mission in which a non-American, the German Ulf Merbold, was a member of the crew and also undertook his first space flight with it.
From a scientific point of view, the flight was a complete success, because by carrying the Spacelab more experiments could be carried out successfully than in all Apollo and Skylab missions combined.
STS-61-B
On this mission, the Atlantis was used for a flight into space for the second time . Shaw was in command of this mission, the main task of which was to launch three communications satellites into space. In addition, construction elements were assembled in free space during two outboard activities in order to gain experience for the construction of space stations .
On board for his maiden flight was the astronaut Jerry Ross , who later became the first person to fly into space seven times.
STS 61-N
In December 1985, Shaw was assigned to command the US Department of Defense's STS-61-N mission . Other crew members were pilot Mike McCulley , the mission specialists James Adamson , David Leestma and Mark Brown and the payload specialists Frank Casserino (MSE) and Lawrence Skantze (DoD). This flight was scheduled to start in September 1986, but was canceled after the Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986.
STS-28
This mission in August 1989 was the fifth mission after the Challenger disaster in January 1986. Since the mission was of a military nature, it is still unknown what activities were carried out. It is believed that secret satellites were exposed. It was Shaw's third and last flight, and he had been reassigned to command.
After the space flights
Shaw was also a member of Roger's Presidential Commission between recent flights to investigate the Challenger's disaster .
After his last flight, he became assistant director of space shuttle missions at the Kennedy Space Center. He was then appointed assistant program manager of the space shuttle program and stayed in Florida for the time being .
His last job at NASA was at the Kennedy Space Center until 1996 as Director of Space Shuttle Missions, in this role he was responsible for all elements of the shuttle including the tank, the booster and the engines.
In 1996 he moved to Rockwell after 27 years with the Air Force and NASA , but at the end of the same year Rockwell was bought by his competitor Boeing and Shaw became one of the directors of the company's space division. He was primarily responsible for the individual components of the ISS, which Boeing had been working on for a long time.
In mid-2003 he moved to the United Space Alliance , where he was responsible for the space shuttle program and various other regulations.
In 2006 he returned to Boeing and became head of the space division.
He retired on August 26, 2011. Most recently, he was Vice President and General Manager of the Space Exploration Division at Boeing.
Summary
| No. | mission | function | Flight date | Flight duration |
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| 1 | STS-9 | pilot | November 28 - December 8, 1983 | 10d 07h 47m |
| 2 | STS-61-B | commander | November 27 - December 3, 1985 | 6d 21h 04m |
| 3 | STS-28 | commander | August 8 - August 13, 1989 | 5d 01h 00m |
Private
Shaw is a co-founder of the Max Q astronaut band . He is married and has three grown children.
See also
- List of spacemen
- Country statistics of manned spaceflight
- List of space shuttle missions
- List of manned space flights
Web links
- Short biography of Brewster Hopkinson Shaw at spacefacts.de
- NASA biography of Brewster Hopkinson Shaw (PDF)
- Biography of Brewster H. Shaw in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Shaw, Brewster Hopkinson |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cass City , Michigan |