Douglas G. Hurley
| Douglas Hurley | |
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| Country: |
 United States
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| Organization: |
 NASA
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| selected on | July 26, 2000 ( 18th NASA Group ) |
| Calls: | 3 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
July 15, 2009 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
2nd August 2020 |
| Time in space: | 92d 10h 37min |
| Space flights | |
Douglas Gerald Hurley (born October 21, 1966 in Endicott , New York ) is an American astronaut from NASA . He is a United States Marine Corps naval aviator with the rank of colonel .
Previous years and military service
Hurley completed his secondary education at the Owego Free Academy in Owego in the State of New York in 1984 and acquired in 1988 at the Tulane University with magna cum laude his Bachelor as an engineer. He graduated from the university's NROTC program and later went to the United States Marine Corps Officers School .
Spaceman activity
On July 26, 2000, Hurley was selected by the NASA space agency and trained as a space shuttle pilot.
Summary of space flights
| No. | mission | function | Flight date | Flight duration |
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| 1 | STS-127 | pilot | 2009 | 15d 16h 44min 9s |
| 2 | STS-135 | pilot | 2011 | 12d 18h 28min 50s |
| 3 | SpX-DM2 , ISS 63 | Commander (SpX), Flight Engineer (ISS) | 2020 | 63d 23h 25min |
STS-127
He was nominated to serve on the STS-127 mission . During this flight, Japanese modules were brought to the International Space Station ISS. It took off on July 15, 2009 and landed on July 31, 2009.
STS-135
On September 14, 2010, Hurley was nominated to pilot the STS-135 shuttle mission . The launch took place on July 8th, the landing on July 21st, 2011. It was the last space flight of the space shuttle program.
SpX-DM2
On July 9, 2015, NASA presented Hurley as one of four test pilots for future commercial spacecraft. On August 3, 2018, he was nominated as a NASA astronaut together with Robert Behnken for the first manned space flight of SpaceX's Dragon V2 for the SpX-DM2 mission . The launch took place on May 30, 2020. After more than 63 days in space, Dragon and the astronauts splashed down on August 2, 2020 in the Gulf of Mexico.
Private
Hurley is a second married to astronaut Karen Nyberg and has one son.
Web links
- Douglas G. Hurley on the NASA website - biography, pictures and videos (English; PDF)
- spacefacts.de: Short biography
Individual evidence
- ^ NASA Assigns Crew for Final Launch on Need Shuttle Mission. NASA, September 14, 2010, accessed May 6, 2011 .
- ^ NASA: NASA Assigns First Crews to Fly Commercial Spacecraft. August 3, 2018, accessed on November 22, 2018 : "The first astronauts who will launch on SpaceX's Crew Dragon are NASA's Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley."
- ↑ NASA astronauts splash down after journey home aboard SpaceX capsule. In: Reuters. August 2, 2020, accessed on August 2, 2020 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hurley, Douglas G. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hurley, Douglas Gerald (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut from NASA |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Endicott , New York , United States |