Lee Archambault

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Lee Archambault
Lee Archambault
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on June 4, 1998
( 17th NASA Group )
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		June 8, 2007
Landing of the
last space flight: 		March 28, 2009
Time in space: 26d 15h 41min
retired on March 2013
Space flights

Lee Joseph "Bru" Archambault (born August 25, 1960 in Oak Park , Illinois , USA ) is a former American astronaut .

education

Archambault grew up in the small town of Bellwood, 25 kilometers west of Chicago . After high school, he studied aerospace engineering at the University of Illinois . There he obtained a bachelor's degree in 1982 and a master's two years later .

Archambault completed his officer training with honors after he had signed up for the US Air Force . He then took part in pilot training at the Sheppard base in Texas together with European NATO colleagues , which he completed in the spring of 1986. First he was stationed in New Mexico , where he flew the F-111D "Aardvark" for four years .

After training on the F-117A "Nighthawk" stealth bomber , Archambault was dispatched to Saudi Arabia . From there he flew 22 sorties with the F-117 during the Second Gulf War . After participating in "Operation Desert Shield" (November 1990 to January 1991) and "Operation Desert Storm" (January to April 1991), he returned to the United States. In August 1991 he was sent back to the crisis region to support the peacekeeping measures for four months.

The war deployment was followed by training. Archambault spent two years training pilots in using the stealth bomber at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. From July 1994 he was trained as a test pilot for one year at the Edwards Air Force Base . As the best graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School, he accepted an assignment in Florida . At Eglin Air Force Base, he tested new weapon systems for the F-16 "Fighting Falcon" aircraft .

Astronaut activity

Archambault was introduced as one of eight candidate pilots with NASA's 17th astronaut group in June 1998. 101 finalists emerged from a total of 2,618 applicants who met the formal selection criteria. In the fall of 1997, they were invited to the Johnson Space Center in Houston for tests, discussions and medical examinations.

During his two-year basic training, Archambault was assigned to the space shuttle department in the astronauts office, where he worked on new developments for orbiter instruments. From autumn 2001 he worked for the support teams for three years before he was CapCom at the radio console.

STS-117

Archambault has been preparing for his first space flight since spring 2005. He was a pilot of the STS-117 mission , which was conducted in June 2007. The US space shuttle Atlantis brought the S3 / S4 element to the International Space Station . During four outboard missions, the component was mounted on the station, the solar panels extended and the second wing of the P6 solar module retracted.

STS-119

In October 2007 Archambault was assigned as the commander of 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.

According to NASA

Archambault retired from the US Air Force in 2012 and from NASA in March 2013. He went to Sierra Nevada Corporation , where he works as a systems engineer and test pilot on the commercial spacecraft Dream Chaser , which is being developed as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Development program.

Private

Archambault is married and has three children.

See also

Web links

Commons : Lee Archambault  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NASA astronaut Lee Archambault Leaving Agency. In: NASA Press Release J13-007. NASA, March 13, 2013, accessed March 19, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Archambault, Lee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Archambault, Lee Joseph; Archambault, Bru
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Oak Park , Illinois