John Lynch Phillips
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| Country: | United States |
| Organization: | NASA |
| selected on | May 1, 1996 ( 16th NASA Group ) |
| Calls: | 3 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
April 19, 2001 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
March 28, 2009 |
| Time in space: | 203d 17h 22min |
| EVA inserts: | 1 |
| EVA total duration: | 4h 57min |
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John Lynch Phillips (born April 15, 1951 in Fort Belvoir , Virginia ) is an American astronaut and naval aviator in the United States Navy .
Life
Phillips, who in Scottsdale ( Arizona ) grew up, graduated from the United States Naval Academy Mathematics and Russian and acquired in 1972 a bachelor . Two years later he received a Masters in Aerospace Engineering from the University of West Florida . A decade later, he studied geo and space physics at the University of California . He left the university in 1987 with a doctorate in physics, after having obtained a master’s degree in 1984.
Phillips was trained as a naval aviator in California and received his pilot's license in late 1974. After a three-year assignment abroad on the aircraft carriers USS Oriskany and USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (with over 4,500 flight hours), he recruited new soldiers on the US east coast. He was then transferred to Naval Air Station North Island near San Diego , California, where he served until he left the Navy in 1982.
He was an astronaut mission STS-100 of Endeavor from April 19 to May 1, 2001. After that, he was the mission on Expedition 11 and worked on the International Space Station (ISS). Phillips took off from Baikonur on April 14, 2005 aboard the Russian Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft. On the space station he took on the duties of a flight engineer. Phillips returned to Earth with Soyuz TMA-6 on October 11, 2005.
In October 2007 he was assigned to the STS-119 space mission . During this space shuttle mission, the last solar cell element on the ISS was brought into space. The launch took place on March 15, 2009. The STS-119 mission ended successfully on March 28, 2009 with the landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
See also
Web links and receipts
- Short biography of John Lynch Phillips at spacefacts.de
- NASA biography of John Lynch Phillips (English; PDF)
- Biography of John Lynch Phillips in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
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| SURNAME | Phillips, John Lynch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fort Belvoir , Virginia |