Gregory Carl Johnson
Gregory Carl Johnson | |
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Country: | United States |
Organization: | NASA |
selected on | June 4, 1998 ( 17th NASA Group ) |
Calls: | 1 space flight |
Begin: | May 11, 2009 |
Landing: | May 24, 2009 |
Time in space: | 12d 21h 38min |
retired on | August 2018 |
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Gregory Carl "Ray J" Johnson (born July 30, 1954 in Seattle , Washington , USA ) is a former American astronaut . He is not to be confused with his colleague Gregory Harold Johnson .
Start of career
Johnson is a captain in the US Navy Reserve. He studied aerospace engineering at the University of Washington and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1977 .
NASA
Johnson was in 1990 at the Johnson Space Center of NASA has been set as a research pilot. He tried in vain to get into the 12th astronaut group.
In 1998, however, he was elected to NASA's 17th astronaut group and trained as a space shuttle pilot.
Johnson was a pilot of the STS-125 mission , which took off on May 11, 2009 for the final maintenance flight of the Hubble Space Telescope . The landing took place on May 24, 2009 at Edwards Air Force Base .
Johnson left NASA in August 2018.
Private
Gregory Johnson is divorced and has two children. His hobbies are jogging and cycling.
See also
- List of spacemen
- Country statistics of manned spaceflight
- List of space shuttle missions
- List of manned space flights
Web links
- Short biography of Gregory Carl Johnson at spacefacts.de
- NASA biography of Gregory Carl Johnson (PDF)
- Biography of Gregory Carl Johnson in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
- NASA: Official website for mission STS-125 (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ NASA: Veteran Astronaut and Aviator Retires from NASA. In: NASA Press Release M18-008. August 10, 2018, accessed on August 19, 2018 .
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SURNAME | Johnson, Gregory Carl |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Johnson, Ray J (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1954 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Seattle , Washington |