Peter Wisoff
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| Country: | United States |
| Organization: | NASA |
| selected on | Jan 17, 1990 ( 13th NASA Group ) |
| Calls: | 4 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
June 21, 1993 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
October 24, 2000 |
| Time in space: | 44d 08h 09min |
| EVA inserts: | 3 |
| EVA total duration: | 19h 53min |
| retired on | September 21, 2001 |
| Space flights | |
Peter Jeffrey Kelsay "Jeff" Wisoff (born August 16, 1958 in Norfolk , State of Virginia , USA ) is a former American astronaut . He currently works at the National Livermore Laboratory in Northern California .
education
1980 Wisoff received a Bachelor in Physics from the University of Virginia , and in 1982 a master and in 1986 his doctorate in applied physics from Stanford University . During his studies at Stanford and afterwards at a faculty at Rice University, he researched and developed various applications in the field of laser technology .
Astronaut activity
In January 1990 he was selected by NASA as an astronaut aspirant and then trained as a mission specialist.
STS-57
On June 21, 1993 Wisoff took off on the space shuttle Endeavor on its first flight into space . The main objective of this mission was the recovery of the European Retrievable Carrier Satellite ( EURECA ). In addition, the Spacehab was on board for the first time to carry out various experiments. During a space exit, Wisoff and David Low retracted two EURECA antennas.
STS-68
For the STS-68 mission , he flew into space on September 30, 1994 on the space shuttle Endeavor . It was the Space Radar Laboratory's second flight. The two main instruments on board were the SIR-C / X-SAR (Shuttle Imaging Radar-C / X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar) and MAPS (Measurement of Air Pollution from Satellites). On October 11th, the space shuttle landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California .
STS-81
On January 12, 1997 Wisoff flew with the space shuttle Atlantis to the Mir space station . The focus was on the material transport and the change of a crew member. Scientific experiments were located in the middle deck of the ferry, while others were housed in a spacehab double module.
STS-92
On October 11, 2000, Wisoff flew to the International Space Station on the Discovery space shuttle . Also on board were the lattice structure element Z1 and the pressurized mating adapter PMA-3. Wisoff took part in two of the four space exits together with his colleague López-Alegría . On the first exit they mounted the PMA-3 and on the second they made final adjustments to the Z1 grid and then tested the rescue system for astronauts called SAFER .
Further activity
In 2001 Wisoff left NASA and went to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Until recently working as principal deputy , he took over from Ed Moses on October 1, 2013, the role of deputy director ( principal associate director ) of the National Ignition Facility & Photon Science (NIF & PS) department at the LLNL.
Private
Wisoff has been married to the astronaut Tamara Jernigan since the end of 1999 .
See also
- List of spacemen
- List of space shuttle missions
- List of manned space flights
- List of manned missions to the International Space Station
- List of manned missions to the Mir space station
Web links
- Short biography of Peter Wisoff at spacefacts.de
- NASA biography of Peter Wisoff (English; PDF)
- Biography of Peter Wisoff in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ LLNL News: Edward Moses to lead Fusion Ignition Science and Applications research effort - Jeff Wisoff acting appointed principal associate director of NIF & Photon Science (English)
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| SURNAME | Wisoff, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wisoff, Jeff (nickname); Wisoff, Peter Jeffrey Kelsay (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Norfolk , Virginia |