Michael Timothy Good
| Michael Timothy Good | |
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| Country: | United States |
| Organization: | NASA |
| selected on | July 26, 2000 ( 18th NASA Group ) |
| Calls: | 2 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
May 11, 2009 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
May 26, 2010 |
| Time in space: | 24d 16h 06min |
| EVA inserts: | 4th |
| EVA total duration: | 29h 53min |
| retired on | May 31, 2019 |
| Space flights | |
Michael Timothy Good (born October 13, 1962 in Parma , Ohio , USA ) is a former American astronaut .
Start of career
Good graduated from Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School in 1980. He then studied aerospace engineering at the University of Notre Dame and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1984 and his master's degree there in 1986.
He then worked as a test pilot for the US Air Force and was involved in the further development of the F-111 and the B-2 bomber.
NASA
In 2000 he was elected to NASA's 18th astronaut group and trained as a mission specialist for two years. His specialty is technical support for space work.
STS-125
Good participated as a mission specialist in the space shuttle mission STS-125 , which started on May 11, 2009 for the final maintenance of the Hubble space telescope . The landing took place on May 24, 2009 at Edwards Air Force Base .
STS-132
On August 11, 2009, Good was nominated for the STS-132 team. He replaced Karen Nyberg , who was removed from the team for unspecified medical reasons. Launch was on May 14, 2010. Good performed two spacecraft missions : one on May 19 with Stephen Bowen and the other on May 21 with Garrett Reisman . This was the penultimate flight of the space shuttle Atlantis .
Michael Good left NASA on May 31, 2019.
Summary
| No | mission | function | Flight date | Flight duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | STS-125 | Mission specialist | 2009 | 12d 21h 38min |
| 2 | STS-132 | Mission specialist | 2010 | 11d 18h 28min |
Private
Good is married and has three children. His hobbies are family activities, golf and jogging.
Individual evidence
- ↑ NASA Assigns Crew for STS-134 Shuttle Mission, Change to STS-132. NASA, August 11, 2009, accessed August 12, 2009 .
- ↑ http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum38/HTML/002239.html
See also
- List of spacemen
- Country statistics of manned spaceflight
- List of space shuttle missions
- List of manned space flights
- List of space exits
Web links
- Short biography of Michael Timothy Good at spacefacts.de
- NASA biography of Michael Timothy Good (English; PDF)
- Biography of Michael Timothy Good in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
- NASA: Official website for mission STS-125 (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Good, Michael Timothy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Parma , Ohio |