Joseph P. Kerwin

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Joseph Kerwin
Joseph Kerwin
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on June 28, 1965
( 4th NASA Group )
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: May 25, 1973
Landing: June 22, 1973
Time in space: 28d 0h 50m
EVA inserts: 1
EVA total duration: 3h 25m
retired on March 31, 1987
Space flights

Joseph Peter Kerwin (born February 19, 1932 in Oak Park , Illinois ) is a retired American astronaut .

education

Joseph Kerwin attended Fenwick High School in Oak Park until 1949 . In 1953 he received a Bachelor in Philosophy from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester ( Massachusetts ). In 1957 he was in medicine at the Medical School of Northwestern University in Chicago doctorate . He completed his internship at the District of Columbia General Hospital in Washington, DC and came 1958 US Navy School of Aviation Medicine in Pensacola ( Florida ), where he was trained as a flight surgeon.

Astronaut activity

Conrad underwent a zero-gravity dental exam by Kerwin

In June 1965, Kerwin was selected as a science astronaut by NASA . He was employed as a science pilot for the Skylab-2 mission, which started on May 25, 1973 and ended on June 22, 1973. Commandant Pete Conrad and pilot Paul J. Weitz flew with him to the Skylab space station. During this 28-day mission, the Skylab was put into operation for the first time.

The dentistry took the first step into space, as if Pete Conrad on the Skylab space station a dental examination in the weightlessness underwent by Kerwin, who is also a flight surgeon was.

After his Skylab flight, Kerwin was in charge of astronaut coordination associated with rendezvous, satellite launch and mountains, and other space shuttle payload operations in the astronauts office. He became a senior mission specialist and was also part of the NBC broadcast team for the launch of STS-1 . From 1982 to 1983, Kerwin worked as senior science representative for NASA in Australia. During this time, he acted as the liaison officer between NASA's Orbit Tracking and Data Systems Office and Australia's Scientific and Industrial Research Organization . During this time, Kerwin was scheduled to fly as a mission specialist on the space shuttle mission STS-41-C (then planned as STS-13), but his work in Australia prevented his selection. STS-41-C was NASA's first satellite recovery and repair mission. The defective Solar Max satellite was recovered, repaired and relocated.

From 1984 to 1987 he was Director of Space and Life Sciences at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . He worked for NASA until 1987 when he went to Lockheed .

According to NASA

At Lockheed Missiles & Space Company he was chief scientist of the space station program. He then worked for United Space Alliance . Since 1997 he has been President of KRUG Life Science in Houston , Texas.

Private

Joseph Kerwin and his wife Shirley have three daughters and five grandchildren.

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Commons : Joseph P. Kerwin  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
personal data
SURNAME Kerwin, Joseph P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kerwin, Joseph Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Oak Park , Illinois