Curtis Brown (astronaut)
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| Country: | United States |
| Organization: | NASA |
| selected on | June 5, 1987 ( 12th NASA Group ) |
| Calls: | 6 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
September 12, 1992 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
December 28, 1999 |
| Time in space: | 57d 17h 07min |
| EVA inserts: | 0 |
| retired on | December 1999 |
| Space flights | |
Curtis Lee "Curt" Brown, Jr. (born March 11, 1956 in Elizabethtown , Bladen County , North Carolina ) is a retired American astronaut .
Life
Brown graduated from Elizabethtown high school in 1974 and earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the US Air Force Academy in 1978 .
From 1978 to 1986 he served on various US air force bases in the United States. There he worked mainly as a test pilot and flight instructor for the A-10 and later for the F-16 .
Astronaut activity
From 1987 Brown took part in the one-year astronaut training. At the end of this program, Brown received further training as a shuttle pilot. Since then he has been used in many functions within NASA , primarily as a liaison speaker .
STS-47
His first mission, on which he was a pilot of the Endeavor shuttle , was the fiftieth space flight of a space shuttle and the second space flight of the Endeavor. It was a US-Japanese space mission in which the experiments focused on science and on changes in materials in space.
STS-66
During this mission with the Shuttle Atlantis , he was reassigned as a pilot. The flight mainly dealt with global warming and lasted eleven days.
STS-77
This mission was his last mission in which he was used as a pilot, again he flew into space with the Endeavor. During this mission, four objects were launched into space, with the SPARTAN satellite being brought back into the spaceship after the mission. During the mission, the satellite had extended an antenna the size of a tennis court and weighing only 66 kilograms.
STS-85
In his first mission as commander Brown flew for the first time with the Discovery into space and set it to the German research satellite CRISTA-SPAS ( Cr yogenic I nfrared S pectrometers and T elescopes for the A tmosphere ) towards its second mission. This satellite always had to be in the vicinity of the spaceship because of the data transmission. Another item on the program was the test of a Japanese robotic arm ( Manipulator Flight Demonstration MFD ) for the ISS space station . With its help, complicated work was carried out, such as loosening screws and opening doors.
STS-95
In this mission, again with the discovery , Brown had to lead the mission and to have the oldest people on board, who was previously in space, the honor of the NASA veterans of the Mercury program , John Glenn , the aged of 77 years to test the effects of weightlessness on the elderly. There was also the first Japanese female astronaut in space, Chiaki Mukai . Various experiments were also carried out and some spare parts for the Hubble Space Telescope were tested in orbit.
STS-103
On his last mission, again as Commander of Discovery, the Hubble Space Telescope was serviced. Above all, the telescope received a new computer.
With this flight he caught up with astronauts John Young , Story Musgrave , Jerry Ross and Franklin Chang-Diaz , who completed six space flights before him.
Summary of space flights
| No. | mission | function | Flight date | Flight duration |
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| 1 | STS-47 | pilot | September 12 - September 20, 1992 | 7d 22h 30m |
| 2 | STS-66 | pilot | November 3 - November 14, 1994 | 10d 22h 34m |
| 3 | STS-77 | pilot | May 19 - May 29, 1996 | 10d 0h 39m |
| 4th | STS-85 | commander | August 7 - August 19, 1997 | 11d 20h 26m |
| 5 | STS-95 | commander | October 29 - November 7, 1998 | 8d 21h 43m |
| 6th | STS-103 | commander | December 20 - December 28, 1999 | 7d 23h 10m |
According to NASA
In 2013 Curtis was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame along with Eileen Collins and Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar .
See also
Web links
- Short biography of Curtis Brown at spacefacts.de
- NASA biography of Curtis Brown (PDF)
- Biography of Curtis Brown in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Todd Halvorson: 3 to join Astronaut Hall of Fame ranks . In: USA Today , April 18, 2013.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Brown, Curtis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brown, Curtis Lee |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elizabethtown , North Carolina |