Terence T. Henricks
| Terence Henricks | |
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| Country: | United States |
| Organization: | NASA |
| selected on | June 4, 1985 ( 11th NASA Group ) |
| Calls: | 4 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
November 24, 1991 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
July 7, 1996 |
| Time in space: | 42d 18h 38min |
| retired on | October 31, 1997 |
| Space flights | |
Terence Thomas "Tom" Henricks (born July 5, 1952 in Bryan , Ohio ) is a former American astronaut .
education
Henricks received a BA in civil engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1974 and a Masters of Public Administration from Golden Gate University in 1982 .
Military career
Henricks completed his training as a pilot and later as a test pilot with the United States Air Force . As a fighter and test pilot, he was stationed in Alabama , Florida , England , Iceland , Nevada and California on various air force bases.
Astronaut activity
In June 1986, Henricks was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate. After his training, he checked shuttle landing sites all over the world. He worked as an engineer for the space shuttle program at the Johnson Space Center as well as the Kennedy Space Center .
STS-44
On November 24, 1991 Henricks started as a pilot of the space shuttle Atlantis for the mission STS-44 . It was a mission for the US Department of Defense . The non-secret payload contained a DSP satellite and its upper stage , among other military experiments , to raise the satellite to a higher orbit.
STS-55
Henrick's second flight took him into space as a pilot on the Columbia space shuttle . The flight is known in Germany as the second German Spacelab mission "D-2". The ten-day flight had to be postponed several times due to various technical problems and could only begin on April 26, 1993. An IMAX camera was carried for the first time on the mission . On board were two German astronauts, Ulrich Walter and Hans Wilhelm Schlegel .
STS-70
On July 13, 1995, Henricks started as commander of the space shuttle Discovery on its third mission into space . The main task was to deploy the TDRS-G relay satellite .
STS-78
On his fourth mission, Henricks flew on June 20, 1996 as commander of the Columbia space shuttle ( STS-78 ) on the longest flight of a space shuttle to date (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).
According to NASA
In 1997 Henricks left NASA and moved to the Timken Company in Canton .
Private
Terence Henricks is married and has three children.
See also
Web links
- Short biography of Terence T. Henricks at spacefacts.de
- NASA biography of Terence T. Henricks (English; PDF)
- Biography of Terence T. Henricks in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
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| SURNAME | Henricks, Terence T. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Henricks, Terence Thomas; Henricks, Tom (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th July 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bryan , Ohio |