Kenneth D. Cameron

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Kenneth D. Cameron
Kenneth D. Cameron
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on May 23, 1984
( 10th NASA Group )
Calls: 3 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		April 5, 1991
Landing of the
last space flight: 		November 20, 1995
Time in space: 23d 10h 11min
retired on 5th August 1996
Space flights

Kenneth Donald Cameron (born November 29, 1949 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is a retired American astronaut .

education

Kenneth Cameron received a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering in 1978 and a master's degree in 1979 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2002 he earned a Masters in Business Administration from Michigan State University .

He joined the US Marine Corps in 1970 and was sent to the Vietnam War for a year after completing his training . After returning to the USA, he was stationed in North Carolina before completing his pilot training at Naval Air Station Pensacola in 1972 . After stationing in Yuma ( Arizona ), Iwakuni ( Japan ) and at the Pacific Missile Test Center in California , Cameron was trained as a test pilot in 1982 at the US Naval Test Pilot School in Patuxent River ( Maryland ).

Astronaut activity

In May 1984, Cameron was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA. After completing his training as a shuttle pilot, he was involved in the development of a tethered satellite payload. He also worked in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL), helped with shuttle launches at the Kennedy Space Center, and was the liaison officer ( CAPCOM ) on missions STS-28 , 29 , 30 , 33 and 34 . In 1994 he came to Moscow as Director of Operations at NASA, where he helped set up training opportunities for astronauts at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center . He was introduced to Russian spaceship technology such as the Soyuz spaceship and the Mir space station .

STS-37

Cameron made his first space flight on April 5, 1991 as a pilot of the space shuttle Atlantis . During this mission, the CGRO gamma-ray observatory was brought into space. Since there were problems with the activation of the antenna, an unplanned exit into space had to be carried out. The following day, another scheduled space exit was carried out, testing the movement of astronauts and equipment with a view to a future space station. Various other experiments were also carried out. B. the amateur radio experiment Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment ( SAREX ).

STS-56

On April 8, 1993, Cameron took off as commander of the space shuttle Discovery on its second flight into space . The nine-day mission called ATLAS-2 (Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science) explored the interrelationships between the sun and the earth's atmosphere. With the help of the shuttle's robot arm , a SPARTAN satellite that examined the solar corona was released and recaptured. In addition, with the help of the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment II (SAREX II), radio communication was established with the Russian Mir space station and some schools on Earth. Numerous other experiments were also carried out.

STS-74

On his third flight in November 1995, he commanded the space shuttle Atlantis on its flight into space. The SDM coupling module, developed and built in Russia, was brought to the Mir space station. The aim of the mission was to supply the space station with supplies. An IMAX camera was also carried on this mission. With the films made in this way, many cinema-goers around the world were later able to get an idea of ​​life and work on the station with impressive images from space.

According to NASA

On August 5, 1996, Cameron left NASA and was then Executive Director of Hughes in Houston . From 1997 he worked for General Motors in Sweden and then in Detroit . From October 2003 he worked again as an engineer for the Engineering & Safety Center (NESC) of NASA at the Langley Research Center , from June 2007 as deputy director for safety at the NESC. In February 2011, he moved to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).

Private

Kenneth Cameron is married and has two sons.

See also

Web links

Commons : Kenneth D. Cameron  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former astronaut joins Science Applications International Corp. yourhoustonnews.com, February 10, 2011, accessed February 15, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Cameron, Kenneth D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cameron, Kenneth Donald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio