Stephen Bowen
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| Country: | United States |
| Organization: | NASA |
| selected on | July 26, 2000 ( 18th NASA Group ) |
| Calls: | 3 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
November 15, 2008 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
March 9, 2011 |
| Time in space: | 40d 10h 2min |
| EVA inserts: | 7th |
| EVA total duration: | 47h 18min |
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Stephen Gerard Bowen (born February 13, 1964 in Cohasset , Massachusetts ) is an American astronaut .
Bowen dropped out of high school in 1982 and began studying at the US Naval Academy (USNA) in Maryland. This gave him a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1986 . He also graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a degree in marine engineering in 1993 .
Naval service
After leaving the USNA, Bowen joined the US Navy and served three years on the submarines USS Parche and USS Pogy . This was followed by a degree in marine engineering held by MIT in cooperation with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution . From 1993 he spent four years on the USS Augusta , where he also trained as a commander of a nuclear submarine . He then went into administration and worked in the planning department of the USSOCOM in Florida. Before he was assigned as first officer to the USS Virginia , the first Virginia-class submarine, in May 2000 , he was a member of the Board of Inspection & Survey in Virginia to check the proper condition of submarine propulsion systems.
Astronaut activity
He was selected as an astronaut by NASA in July 2000 and was trained as a mission specialist. On November 15, 2008, he took off on the STS-126 mission for his first space flight. In 2010 he took part in STS-132 on the Atlantis.
He made his third flight with STS-133 on the last flight of the space shuttle Discovery . Launch was on May 14, 2010. Bowen performed two spacecraft missions : one on May 17 with Garrett Reisman , the other on May 19 with Michael Timothy Good .
After Tim Kopra , nominated as a mission specialist, had a bicycle accident , he was named as his replacement for the crew of the STS-133 mission on January 19, 2011 . This makes Bowen the only NASA astronaut to have participated in two consecutive flights. He also took over the two field missions planned for copra and spent almost 13 hours in free space on February 28, 2011 and March 2, 2011 together with Al Drew . Bowen ranks sixth on the list of most experienced astronauts at space exits with over 47 hours off a spacecraft.
After serving on the backup crew for the Soyuz MS-16 mission , Bowen is expected to begin his fourth space flight in October 2020. As the flight engineer of the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft , he would then start to the ISS together with the Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryschikow and Sergei Kud-Swertschkow . There he would take command of Expedition 64 after about a week's stay . Soyuz MS-17 flight is scheduled to return in April 2021.
Private
Bowen is married with three children.
See also
Web links
- Stephen Bowen on the NASA website - biography, pictures and videos (English; PDF)
- Spacefacts biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Astronaut Steve Bowen Named To STS-133 Space Shuttle Crew; Media Teleconference scheduled for 3:30 pm CST. NASA, January 19, 2011, accessed January 19, 2011 .
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| SURNAME | Bowen, Stephen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bowen, Stephen Gerard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cohasset , Massachusetts |