Richard R. Arnold

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Richard Arnold
Richard Arnold
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on May 6, 2004
( 19th NASA Group )
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		March 15, 2009
Landing of the
last space flight: 		4th October 2018
Time in space: 209d 13h 29min
EVA inserts: 5
EVA total duration: 32h 04min
Space flights

Richard Robert "Ricky" Arnold II (born November 26, 1963 in Cheverly , Maryland ) is an American astronaut .

Life

After his training as a teacher, Arnold worked at various American international schools around the globe, e. B. in Casablanca ( Morocco ), Riyadh ( Saudi Arabia ), Kuala Kencana ( Indonesia ) and in Bucharest ( Romania ).

In this capacity as a teacher he was selected as an astronaut candidate in May 2004. As a member of NASA's Educator Astronaut Program, it is his job to connect space exploration with the classroom and thus inspire a new generation of researchers.

In August 2007 he was a crew member of the NEEMO-13 mission, a submarine research habitat of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) off the coast of Florida, where he worked for 10 days.

In October 2007 he was assigned to 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.

From October 20th to 26th, 2011 he was with Michael Landon Gernhardt and Stanley Glen Love in the lunar and asteroid landing simulation of the underwater mission NEEMO-15 .

On March 28, 2017, NASA announced that Arnold was assigned to ISS Expeditions 55 and 56 . Arnold took off for the ISS on March 21, 2018 with the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft and worked there until October 4, 2018.

Richard R. Arnold is a radio amateur with the callsign KE5DAU.

Private

Richard Arnold is married and has two daughters.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NASA: NASA Announces Upcoming International Space Station Crew Assignments. In: NASA Press Release 17-017. March 28, 2017, accessed March 29, 2017 .
  2. ^ NASA: Launches and Landings. Retrieved September 30, 2018 .
  3. ↑ KE5DAU in the database of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

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personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Richard R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnold, Richard Robert II; Arnold, Ricky (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheverly , Maryland , United States