Scott Douglas Altman

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Scott Altman
Scott Altman
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on December 8, 1994
(15th NASA Group)
Calls: 4 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		April 17, 1998
Landing of the
last space flight: 		May 24, 2009
Time in space: 51d 12h 50min
retired on September 1, 2010
Space flights

Scott Douglas Altman (born August 15, 1959 in Lincoln , Illinois , USA ) is a former American test pilot and astronaut .

education

Altman graduated from Pekin Community High School in Pekin, Illinois in 1977 and completed his undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Illinois four years later . In 1990 he earned a Master's diploma in aeronautical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey ( California ).

Military training

Altman joined the US Navy in August 1981 with the rank of Ensign . He was awarded his pilot's wings in February 1983 and then flew the Grumman F-14 fighter aircraft in "Fighter Squadron 51" at the Navy base in Miramar . In August 1987 Altman was transferred to the test pilot school " United States Navy Fighter Weapons School " (better known under the name "Top Gun"). Altman graduated with honors in June 1990. He then worked for two years as a test pilot on various F-14 projects before accompanying the first deployment of the then new F-14D as a maintenance and operations officer. He was awarded the Navy Air Medal for his role during Operation Southern Watch . Shortly after his return from Iraq , Altman was selected for the astronaut program. He has flown over 5000 hours on more than 40 different types of aircraft.

Altman flew most of the flight scenes seen in the movie Top Gun .

Space flights

On his first two space flights with STS-90 and STS-106 he worked as a pilot, on his third and fourth with STS-109 and STS-125 as a commander.

STS-90

On April 17, 1998 (18:19 UTC) the mission took off from launch pad 39-B of the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) at an orbit height of 278 km. 31 experiments (including on rats ) were carried out to see how weightlessness affects the nervous system , and for the first time living animals were operated on during a space flight. After 15 days, 21 hours and 50 minutes, the mission landed again at the Kennedy Space Center on May 3, 1998 at 16:09 UTC.

STS-106

On September 8, 2000, the mission started from launch pad 39-B of the KSC at an orbit height of 328 km to load the International Space Station (ISS) with everyday objects such as B. equip a toilet. After docking with the ISS, on September 11, 2000, Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko and Edward Tsang Lu made an EVA of six hours and 15 minutes to lay a cable between the ISS modules Zvezda and Zarya . On September 20, 2000 at 7:58 UTC, the mission landed on Cape Canaveral after eleven days, 19 hours and 12 minutes.

STS-109

On March 1, 2002, the mission started from launch pad 39-A of KSC at a height of 470 km. It was the fourth “Hubble Space Telescope Servicing”. On March 4, 2002, John Mace Grunsfeld and Richard Michael Linnehan made an EVA of seven hours and one minute to equip the Hubble space telescope with a new generation solar sail on the starboard side . James Hansen Newman and Michael James Massimino did the second EVA on March 5th for seven hours and 16 minutes to also replace the second awning and one of four Reaction Wheel Assemblies . Grunsfeld and Linnehan took over the third EVA one day later to replace a power supply element, which took six hours and 48 minutes. The fourth EVA on March 7th took seven hours and 30 minutes. Newman and Massimino undertook to replace the Faint Object Camera with a new ultraviolet camera and to install an electrical box for the cooling unit of the NICIMOS infrared camera. On March 8th, Grunsfeld and Massimino made one last EVA of seven hours and twenty minutes to install a cooling unit for NICIMOS and to replace the old cooling unit. After ten days, 22 hours and ten minutes, the mission landed on March 12, 2002 at Cape Canaveral.

STS-125

As the commander of STS-125, Altman led the fifth and final maintenance and repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. It took off on May 11, 2009 and landed on May 24, 2009 at Edwards Air Force Base .

According to NASA

On September 1, 2010, Altman left NASA and became Vice President of strategic planning at ASRC Research and Technology Solutions (ARTS) in Greenbelt , Maryland .

Private

Altman is married with three children.

See also

Web links

Commons : Scott Altman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NASA biography of Scott Douglas Altman (English; PDF)
  2. ↑ Tazewell County Scott D. Altman, Commander, United States Navy, NASA Astronaut (English)
  3. ↑ Veteran Astronaut Joins ASRC Research and Technology Solutions. In: Businesswire. ASRC Research and Technology Solutions (ARTS), September 1, 2010, accessed February 15, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Altman, Scott Douglas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH 15th August 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Lincoln , Illinois , USA