Ronald John Garan

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Ronald J. Garan, Jr.
Ronald J. Garan, Jr.
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on July 26, 2000
( 18th NASA Group )
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		May 31, 2008
Landing of the
last space flight: 		September 16, 2011
Time in space: 177d 23h 54min
EVA inserts: 4th
EVA total duration: 27h 3min
retired on September 2013
Space flights

Ronald John Garan, Jr. (born October 30, 1961 in Yonkers , New York ) is a retired American astronaut .

education

Garan received a bachelor's degree in economics from the State University of New York in 1982 . Then he went to the US Air Force . There he became an F-16 pilot and flew combat missions in the Second Gulf War . In 1994 he received a Masters in Aerospace Engineering and in 1996 a Masters in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Florida .

Astronaut activity

Ronald Garan was selected as an astronaut in 2000 and started on May 31, 2008 as a mission specialist with STS-124 to the ISS . The STS-124 mission brought another part of the Japanese Kibō module (Japanese Experiment Module - Pressurized Module; JEM-PM) and the Japanese robotic arm (JEM-RMS) to the ISS. At three EVAs he gained his first 20h 33min experience in field operations, including a. in the third use with a so-called "windshield wiping maneuver" at the end of the ISS robot arm to replace an empty nitrogen tank on the starboard girder of the station.

In October 2009 Garan was nominated for a long stay aboard the ISS. He was on board the ISS as a flight engineer for Expeditions 27 and 28 from April 7 to September 16, 2011.

In 2013 Garan was sent by NASA to the US Development Aid Agency ( USAID ) for a few months , where he was responsible for the application of new technologies - including from space travel - in developing countries. In September 2013 he left NASA to privately work in this and other social areas.

Private

Garan is married and has three children.

See also

Web links

Commons : Ronald John Garan  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NASA and its International Partners Assign Space Station Crews. In: Release 09-233. NASA, October 7, 2009, accessed October 14, 2009 .
  2. ^ NASA biography of Ronald John Garan , April 2012, accessed April 25, 2014 (PDF).
personal data
SURNAME Garan, Ronald John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garan, Ronald John Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Yonkers , New York, USA