Gregory Carl Johnson

Gregory Carl Johnson
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
Space flights
STS-125 (2009)

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

Commons : Gregory C. Johnson  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• 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

1. ^ NASA: Veteran Astronaut and Aviator Retires from NASA. In: NASA Press Release M18-008. August 10, 2018, accessed on August 19, 2018 .