Daniel Thomas Barry

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daniel Barry
Daniel Barry
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on March 31, 1992
(14th NASA Group)
Calls: 3 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		January 11, 1996
Landing of the
last space flight: 		August 22, 2001
Time in space: 30d 14h 27min
EVA inserts: 4th
EVA total duration: 25h 49min
retired on April 2005
Space flights

Daniel T. Barry (* thirtieth December 1953 in Norwalk , Connecticut ) is a former American astronaut of NASA . He was also a candidate in Survivor : Exile Iceland, a reality show on CBS . He is married and has two children. Barry graduated in 1971 from Bolton High School in Alexandria ( Louisiana ) and enrolled at Cornell University for the degree program Electrical one, which he in 1975 with a Bachelor graduated as an engineer. In 1977 he received a master’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in computer science from Princeton University , where he received his doctorate in the same subjects three years later. In 1982 he also received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Miami .

Further training in rehabilitation medicine at the University of Michigan was followed by a position as assistant professor at the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation there, where he worked in the field of biotechnology . His research area was the transmission of biological signals, including signal process theory , its algorithms and the application to specific biological problems. Barry owns five patents , has published over 30 articles in scientific publications, and served on the editorial board of two journals.

NASA selection

Barry was selected from 2,054 applicants by NASA and introduced to the 14th Astronaut Training Group in March 1992. After a year of training, he completed his training as a mission specialist for space shuttle crews. During his time at NASA, he mainly worked on the development of the Shuttle payloads and in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL). He was the Ombudsman of the Clinic for Airworthiness and a board member of the NASA Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI).

Space flights

No. mission function Flight date Flight duration
[dd: hh: mm]
1 STS-72 Mission specialist January 11 - January 20, 1996 8:22:01
2 STS-96 Mission specialist May 27 - June 6, 1999 9:19:13
3 STS-105 Mission specialist August 10 - August 22, 2001 11:21:13

EVA

No. date Along with Duration
[hh: mm] 		mission
1 January 15, 1996 L. Chiao 6:09 STS-72
2 May 30, 1999 T. Jernigan 7:55 STS-96
3 August 16, 2001 P. Forrester 6:16 STS-105
4th August 18, 2001 P. Forrester 5:29 STS-105

Awards

  • 1971: McMullen Engineering Award
  • 1979: NSF National Needs Fellow
  • 1984: Young Investigator Award from the American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine
  • 1985–1990: Clinical Investigator Development Award from the National Institutes of Health
  • 1990: Silver Crutch Award from the University of Michigan for Outstanding Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Teacher
  • 1996: NASA Space Flight Medal
  • 1996: Honorary Doctorate from the University of St. Louis .

See also

Web links

Commons : Daniel Thomas Barry  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Barry, Daniel Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut from NASA
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Norwalk , Connecticut