James D. Halsell

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James Halsell
James Halsell
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on Jan 17, 1990
( 13th NASA Group )
Calls: 5 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		July 8, 1994
Landing of the
last space flight: 		May 29, 2000
Time in space: 52d 10h 34m
retired on November 2006
Space flights

James Donald "Jim" Halsell, Jr. (born September 29, 1956 in West Monroe , Louisiana ) is a retired American astronaut .

Halsell received a bachelor's degree in engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1978 , a master's in business management from Troy University in 1983, and a master's in space operations from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1985.

The US Air Force trained Halsell as a pilot and test pilot. In July 2004, he retired from the Air Force.

Astronaut activity

In January 1990, Halsell was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA and then trained as a shuttle pilot.

STS-65

For the STS-65 mission , Halsell flew into space for the first time as a pilot of the Columbia space shuttle on July 8, 1994. Around seven dozen experiments from the fields of biology and materials science were on the program during the 15-day Spacelab flight. On July 23, the Columbia landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida .

STS-74

On September 12, 1995, Halsell launched into space as a pilot of the space shuttle Atlantis . STS-74 brought the SDM coupling module, developed and built in Russia, to the Mir space station . In addition, the space station was supplied with supplies.

STS-83

On April 4, 1997, Halsell launched into space as the commander of the Columbia space shuttle. The payload was the Microgravity Science Laboratory (MSL-1). Due to a problem with a fuel cell on the space shuttle, the mission had to be shortened and the landing took place after just under four days. NASA decided to repeat the mission three months later with the same crew.

STS-94

On July 1, 1997, Columbia started under the designation STS-94 to repeat the MSL-1 mission, which was prematurely canceled in April. This time the experiments in the Microgravity Science Laboratory could be carried out successfully. This included, above all, attempts to research the physical properties of supercooled liquid mixtures and the combustion processes on solid and liquid materials as well as the production of pure protein crystals .

STS-101

On May 19, 2000, Halsell flew to the International Space Station (ISS) as the commander of the space shuttle Atlantis . With the mission STS-101 approx. 1,500 kg of equipment, hardware and supplies for the planned first regular crew of the ISS were transported with the help of the Spacehab and the Integrated Cargo Carrier (ICC).

According to NASA

In November 2006, Halsell retired from NASA to accept a position at ATK Launch Systems in Utah .

Murder charges

On June 6, 2016, Halsell was arrested near Tuscaloosa , Alabama, USA . He is said to have crashed into another vehicle from behind on US Highway 25 under the influence of alcohol and at excessive speed . Two girls between the ages of 11 and 13 were killed. He was released for the time being in return for a bail of $ 150,000.

Private

James Halsell and his wife, Kathy, have two children.

See also

Web links

Commons : James D. Halsell  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Girls die in accidents: murder charges against ex-astronaut , Spiegel Online , June 8, 2016, accessed on June 9, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Halsell, James D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halsell, James Donald; Halsell, Jim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH West Monroe , Louisiana