Richard M. Linnehan

Richard M. Linnehan

Country:	United States
Organization:	NASA
selected on	March 31, 1992 ( 14th NASA Group )
Calls:	4 space flights
Start of the first space flight:	June 20, 1996
Landing of the last space flight:	March 27, 2008
Time in space:	59d 10h 28min
EVA inserts:	6th
EVA total duration:	42h 24min
Space flights
STS-78 (1996) STS-90 (1998) STS-109 (2002) STS-123 (2008)

Richard Michael Linnehan (born September 19, 1957 in Lowell , Massachusetts ) is an American astronaut .

Linnehan received his bachelor's degrees in animal biology and microbiology from the University of New Hampshire in 1980 . In 1985 he received his PhD in Veterinary Medicine from Ohio State University . He then worked as a veterinarian for the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore and Johns Hopkins University, among others . In 1989, Linnehan joined the US Navy and worked on the US Navy's marine mammal program in San Diego , California .

Astronaut activity

Linnehan was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in March 1992 and then trained as a mission specialist for shuttle flights at the Johnson Space Center for a year. He then worked in the software department in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL) and in the development department for payload and future shuttle missions.

STS-78

During his first assignment as a mission specialist, Linnehan flew on the space shuttle Columbia ( STS-78 ) on June 20, 1996 to the longest flight of a space shuttle (16d 21h 48min). The task was weightlessness experiments in the Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS), which were required as a basis for future experiments on the International Space Station (ISS).

STS-90

Two years later, in April 1998, he took part in his next Spacelab mission, STS-90 , on board the Columbia space shuttle . The 16-day Neurolab mission primarily served to research the effects of weightlessness on the brain and nervous system .

STS-109

On March 1, 2002, Linnehan started again with the space shuttle Columbia for the fourth maintenance mission of the Hubble space telescope . Hubble was equipped with a new energy control unit, improved solar panels, the new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and a cooling system for the Near Infrared Camara and the Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS). Linnehan and his colleague John M. Grunsfeld undertook three of the five space exits and spent more than 21 hours together outside the space shuttle.

STS-123

Linnehan was on the crew of STS-123 . In March 2008, the space shuttle Endeavor brought the ELM-PS logistics module , which is part of the Japanese Kibō module, and the Canadian robot hand Dextre to the International Space Station .

Web links and receipts

Commons : Richard M. Linnehan - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Short biography of Richard M. Linnehan at spacefacts.de
NASA biography of Richard M. Linnehan (English; PDF)
Biography of Richard M. Linnehan in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Linnehan, Richard M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Linnehan, Richard Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH	September 19, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lowell , Massachusetts