Douglas H. Wheelock

Douglas Wheelock

Country:	United States
Organization:	NASA
selected on	June 4, 1998 (17th NASA Group)
Calls:	2 space flights
Start of the first space flight:	October 23, 2007
Landing of the last space flight:	November 26, 2010
Time in space:	178d 9h 34min
EVA inserts:	6th
EVA total duration:	43h 30min
Space flights
STS-120 (2007) Soyuz TMA-19 (2010) ISS expedition 24 ISS expedition 25

Douglas Harry Wheelock (born May 5, 1960 in Binghamton , New York ) is an American astronaut .

education

Wheelock received a bachelor's degree in applied science and engineering from the West Point Military Academy in 1983 . The Georgia Institute of Technology awarded him a Masters in Aerospace Engineering in 1992 .

Military career

After completing his bachelor's degree, Wheelock was trained as a pilot by the US Army . He then served in the Pacific as a group leader, platoon leader , deputy company commander and commander of an air cavalry unit . At the Aviation Directorate of Combat Developments in Fort Rucker ( Alabama ) he worked as a development engineer in the armament area. After successfully completing the Naval Test Pilot School in Patuxent River ( Maryland ) in 1993, he was a test pilot at the Aviation Technical Test Center in Fort Rucker and tested air reconnaissance systems.

Astronaut activity

In August 1996, Wheelock came to the Johnson Space Center and the following year he oversaw the space shuttle missions as an engineer during launch preparations.

Wheelock was introduced by NASA as an astronaut aspirant in June 1998. After two years of training as a mission specialist, he was the contact person for the astronauts office for Russia within the framework of the ISS ( International Space Station ) program. Subsequently, he was part of the support teams of the second and fourth ISS regular crew . From August 2002 he was the liaison spokesman for the crews of the space station in Houston.

STS-120

From June 2006, Wheelock trained for his first space flight. He was a mission specialist on the STS-120 shuttle flight , which began on October 23, 2007 and ended after 15 days.

ISS expeditions 24 and 25

On June 15, 2010, Wheelock took off for the International Space Station on the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft . From June to November 2010, Wheelock lived and worked on board the ISS and took command of ISS Expedition 25 from September 2010 . In August 2010, Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell-Dyson undertook three space exits to replace a defective ammonia coolant pump.

Web links

Commons : Douglas H. Wheelock - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Douglas H. Wheelock on the NASA website - biography, pictures and videos (English; PDF)
spacefacts.de: Short biography

Individual evidence

↑ Katherine Trinidad, Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters: NASA Assigns Space Station Crews, Updates Expedition Numbering. NASA, November 21, 2008, accessed November 22, 2008 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wheelock, Douglas H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wheelock, Douglas Harry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH	May 5th 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH	Binghamton , New York, USA

[1] Katherine Trinidad, Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters: NASA Assigns Space Station Crews, Updates Expedition Numbering. NASA, November 21, 2008, accessed November 22, 2008 .