Steven Lindsey

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Steve Lindsey
Steve Lindsey
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on December 8, 1994
( 15th NASA Group )
Calls: 5 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		November 19, 1997
Landing of the
last space flight: 		March 9, 2011
Time in space: 62d 22h 33min
retired on July 15, 2011
Space flights

Steven Wayne "Steve" Lindsey (born August 24, 1960 in Arcadia , California ) is a retired American astronaut .

education

Steve Lindsey has his roots in the south of the US state of California: born in Arcadia, not far from San Diego , he grew up in the neighboring village of Temple City . After receiving his diploma in 1978 at the Temple City High School Lindsey studied in Colorado Springs ( Colorado ) at the United States Air Force Academy (USAF), he with a 1982 Bachelor in Engineering ended.

Military career

Lindsey began his active service in the US Air Force after visiting the USAFA and was initially trained as a pilot at Reese Air Force Base in Texas . In 1984 he was transferred to Bergstrom Air Force Base, also in Texas, and had been assigned to the 12th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron. Here he served as an instructor for the next three years until he continued his studies in 1987 at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), whose campus is on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base , Ohio . His final year at university was a particular challenge for Lindsey because he also attended the United States Air Force Test Pilot School in California "on the side". In 1990 he made his master's degree in aeronautical engineering and his test pilot exam (with distinction).

Subsequently, Lindsey was transferred to Florida on the Eglin Air Force Base to the 3247th test squadron. There he was deputy head of the Advanced Tactical Air Reconnaissance System Joint Test Force and commander of an F-16 flight squadron for the next three years . In the fall of 1993, he attended Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, for a ten-month officer course. Back at the Eglin Air Force Base, he was responsible for the weapons certification of the aircraft types F-16 "Fighting Falcon", F-111 "Aardvark", A-10 "Thunderbolt II" and F-117 "Nighthawk" until he switched to NASA .

Astronaut activity

Steven Lindsey was selected as one of ten candidate pilots with the 15th Astronaut Group in December 1994. From a total of 2,962 applicants who met the formal selection criteria, 121 finalists emerged. They were invited to the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston , Texas in the summer of 1994 for tests, job interviews and medical examinations. The astronaut group began the one-year basic training in March 1995.

After completing his basic training, Lindsey worked on the software for the main shuttle computer and was involved in the development of the “glass cockpit”. The Multifunction Electronic Display Subsystem (MEDS), as it is called NASA replaced the native of the 1970s, the cockpit of the space shuttle : the old monochrome screens are replaced by modern displays, also the energy consumption low and individual components as required by the Astronauts are exchanged in flight.

On July 14, 2011, NASA announced that Lindsey will be leaving NASA on July 15.

STS-87

In mid-November 1996, Lindsey was nominated as a pilot for his first flight and began training for STS-87 . It was a Spacelab flight that began on November 19, 1997 and was called "United States Microgravity Payload 4". The two mission specialists Winston Scott and Takao Doi carried out two space exits (EVAs) . During the first EVA, they caught the SPARTAN research satellite , which had been launched at the beginning of the flight and which had fallen into an uncontrolled tumble. In addition, the so-called AERCam was tested for the first time, an approximately 40 centimeter ball that is equipped with a position control and camera system and can explore structures that are difficult to access. Scott let him float out of the payload bay and Lindsey controlled AERCam by remote control from the cockpit.

After his first flight into space, Lindsey took over the training of his astronaut colleagues from the beginning of 1998. For three months he taught landing techniques and showed where the optimal touchdown point is or what the correct deployment of the orbiter should look like.

STS-95

STS-95 was Lindsey's second assignment as a pilot. The training began after his appointment in mid-February 1998. The 9-day mission, which began on October 29, 1998, was the 25th flight of the orbiter Discovery . In addition to the renewed use of the SPARTAN satellite of STS-87, which was im Showed problems with the attitude control the year before, the Spacehab module was also in the cargo bay with a series of experiments. Most of all, however, all attention was focused on one crew member. The first person in the United States to orbit the earth, the now 77-year-old Senator John Glenn , flew as a payload specialist. It was launched into space with “ Friendship 7 ” in February 1962 and landed again after only three orbits around the earth. At his own request, he was recruited for STS-95, found fit to fly and completed the entire training with the rest of the crew.

At the beginning of 1999, following his second mission, Lindsey was Vice Chairman of the Space Shuttle Cockpit Council, which deals with the design and function of displays, switches and other controls in the orbiter.

STS-104

At the end of September 2000, Steve Lindsey was given his first command of his own. STS-104 was the tenth mission (ISS-7A) of the space shuttle to the International Space Station (ISS) . Atlantis brought the Quest airlock to the ISS in July 2001 , which was installed during three EVAs.

Lindsey then worked as a person in charge of the astronauts office for the ISS. In this role he coordinated the training and assignments of his colleagues, was the contact person for supplier companies and the like.

His second assignment as commander was to be STS-119 . In mid-December 2002 NASA announced that he would fly to the ISS at the beginning of 2004 together with Mark Kelly and the mission specialists Carlos Noriega and Michael Gernhardt. In addition to three other mission specialists, a fresh three-person ISS crew should be on board. The crew should therefore consist of ten people, because the detached ISS security team should return to Earth with Lindsey & Co.

STS-121

Half a year after the Columbia crash , Lindsey was reassigned to a new mission in December 2003. Instead of STS-119, he should now command STS-121 . This flight was also included in the flight manifest according to STS-107. Since STS-119 was to be carried out much later, but at the time not so many trained astronauts were available, Lindsey was relocated. STS-121 was carried out in July 2006 after several postponements. The main tasks were to prove, on the one hand, that the improvements made to the space shuttle after STS-107 and STS-114 were working and, on the other hand, to supply the ISS with goods and to reinforce its two-man crew by Thomas Reiter . Since the ISS expedition 6 , three space travelers have been working on the station again. In addition, the shuttle crew carried out three spacecraft works before the flight came to an end after two weeks.

STS-133

On October 1, 2006, Lindsey took over the post of chief astronaut at NASA. On September 18, 2009, Lindsey was nominated as commander for the STS-133 mission to the ISS. The take-off took place on February 24, 2011, the landing on March 9. Lindsey was the last in command of the space shuttle Discovery .

Honors

Lindsey was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2015 .

Private

Lindsey, who headed NASA's astronaut office from October 2006 to October 2009, is married with three children. In October 2009, Peggy Whitson took up the post of chief astronaut at NASA. From this point on, Steven Lindsey prepared for the command of the STS-133 shuttle mission.

See also

Web links

Commons : Steven W. Lindsey  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NASA astronaut Steve Lindsey Leaves The Agency. July 14, 2011, accessed July 14, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Chris Bergin: Rominger resigns, Lindsey to replace. nasaspaceflight.com, August 22, 2006, accessed September 19, 2009 .
  3. ↑ NASA names crew for final space shuttle mission. Spaceflight Now, September 18, 2009, accessed September 19, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Space Coast Daily: NASA Inducts Four Heroes Into US Astronaut Hall Of Fame. June 1, 2015, accessed June 3, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Lindsey, Steven
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindsey, Steven Wayne; Lindsey, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Arcadia , California