James H. Newman

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James H. Newman
James H. Newman
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on Jan 17, 1990
( 13th NASA Group )
Calls: 4 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		September 12, 1993
Landing of the
last space flight: 		March 12, 2002
Time in space: 43d 10h 07min
EVA inserts: 6th
EVA total duration: 43h 13min
retired on July 2008
Space flights

James H. Newman ( James Hansen Newman ; born October 16, 1956 on Truk in the Pacific Islands Trust Territory, now Chuuk in the Federated States of Micronesia ) is a former American astronaut .

Start of career

Newman graduated from La Jolla High School in San Diego , California , then studied physics at Dartmouth College and graduated with a bachelor's degree cum laude in 1978. His master and doctorate he made at the Rice University in 1982 respectively 1984. After graduating, he continued working at Rice University and from 1985 the way the Johnson Space Center of NASA .

NASA

In 1990 he was elected to NASA's 13th astronaut group. His specialty are portable computers for work in space and the preparation and follow-up work for the crew of a space flight.

STS-51

He completed his first space flight with the Discovery from September 12-22, 1993. His job was to work on the Shuttle Pallet Satellite and to test new aids and techniques for subsequent missions during outboard activities. The landing took place at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida .

STS-69

The Endeavor went into space from September 7th to 18th to test assembly techniques for the ISS . In the meantime, experiments were carried out to measure the intensity of the solar wind and to measure the extreme ultraviolet emissions of Jupiter's plasma toro, which emanate from its moon Io . The landing took place again in Florida.

STS-88

He flew again with the Endeavor from December 4th - 16th, 1998 in space, but this time he was involved in the inauguration mission of the ISS, because the space shuttle had the space station's first Unity connection module along with two coupling adapters (PMA-1 and PMA-2) in the hold. Here Newman was in demand as a mission expert, because he had tried out the assembly techniques in weightlessness on the previous flights. The landing in Florida also took place on this mission.

STS-109

He made his fourth flight from March 1 to 12, 2002 with the Columbia to the Hubble Space Telescope . During this mission maintenance work was carried out, including the replacement of the control system and the solar panels. Again they landed in Florida.

Summary

No. mission function Flight date Flight duration
begin landing
1 STS-51 Mission specialist September 12, 1993 September 22, 1993 09d 20h 11m
2 STS-69 Mission specialist September 7, 1995 September 18, 1995 10d 20h 28m
3 STS-88 Mission specialist 4th December 1998 December 16, 1998 11d 19h 17m
4th STS-109 Mission specialist March 1, 2002 March 12, 2002 10d 22h 09m

After the space flights

From December 2002 to January 2006, Newman worked in the ISS Program Office, where he was responsible for NASA activities in Russia.

From March 2006, Newman taught as a NASA exchange professor at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey . In July 2008 he left NASA and accepted a professorship at the NPS.

Private

He is married to his wife Mary and has three children. His hobbies are hiking, soccer, baseball, squash and gliding.

He is also a member of the Sigma Chi student association .

See also

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personal data
SURNAME Newman, James H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Newman, James Hansen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Micronesia