Dominic A. Antonelli
Dominic Anthony Antonelli | |
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Country: | United States |
Organization: | NASA |
selected on | 2000 ( 18th NASA group ) |
Calls: | 2 space flights |
Start of the first space flight: |
March 15, 2009 |
Landing of the last space flight: |
May 26, 2010 |
Time in space: | 24d 13h 58min |
retired on | July 10, 2015 |
Space flights | |
Dominic Anthony "Tony" Antonelli (born August 23, 1967 in Detroit ) is a former American astronaut .
He was born in Detroit and grew up in Indiana and North Carolina . He is married and has two children. He graduated from Douglas Byrd High School BS, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Washington .
Military career
Antonelli served as Naval Aviator and Landing Signal Officer aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and flew the F / A-18C in support of Operation Southern Watch .
Antonelli has spent over 3,200 hours in 41 different types of aircraft and landed on an aircraft carrier 273 times. He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Test Pilot School .
NASA career
In July 2000 he was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA. Antonelli served in various technical tasks until he was assigned to a mission. On October 19, 2007, NASA announced that he would be a pilot for the STS-119 mission . During this space shuttle mission, the last solar cell element on the ISS was brought into space. The launch took place on March 15, 2009. The STS-119 mission ended successfully on March 28, 2009 with the landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
On May 14, 2010, Antonelli started his second space flight as a pilot of the space shuttle Atlantis on the STS-132 mission . The landing took place on May 26, 2010.
Antonelli left NASA on July 10, 2015.
Private
Antonelli is married and has two children.
Web links
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- Short biography of Dominic A. Antonelli at spacefacts.de
- NASA biography of Dominic A. Antonelli (English; PDF)
- Biography of Dominic A. Antonelli in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ NASA: Astronaut Tony Antonelli Departs NASA After 15 Years. In: NASA Press Release J15-016. July 21, 2015, accessed July 27, 2015 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Antonelli, Dominic A. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Antonelli, Dominic Anthony (full name); Antonelli, Tony (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
DATE OF BIRTH | 23rd August 1967 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Detroit , Michigan , United States |