Terrence W. Wilcutt
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| Country: | United States |
| Organization: | NASA |
| selected on | Jan 17, 1990 ( 13th NASA Group ) |
| Calls: | 4 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
September 30, 1994 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
September 20, 2000 |
| Time in space: | 42d 0h 05m |
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Terrence Wade Wilcutt (born October 31, 1949 in Russellville , Kentucky , USA ) is an American astronaut .
Wilcutt received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Western Kentucky University in 1974 and then was a high school math teacher before joining the United States Marine Corps in 1976 . He was trained as a pilot and deployed to bases in Hawaii, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.
From 1983 to 1986 Wilcutt was the pilot instructor for the F-18 Hornet fighter aircraft . He then worked as a test pilot at the Naval Aircraft Test Center in Patuxent River, Maryland .
Astronaut activity
In January 1990, Wilcutt was selected as an astronaut aspirant by NASA and then trained as a shuttle pilot. He is currently the Assistant Director of Safety and Mission Assurance at the Johnson Space Center .
STS-68
On September 30, 1994, Wilcutt flew into space for the first time as a pilot on the space shuttle Endeavor . STS-68 was the Space Radar Laboratory's second flight. The two main instruments on board were the SIR-C / X-SAR (Shuttle Imaging Radar-C / X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar) and MAPS (Measurement of Air Pollution from Satellites). On October 11th, the space shuttle landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California .
STS-79
STS-79 launched on September 16, 1996 to the Mir space station from the Kennedy Space Center, where the mission later ended again. The space shuttle Atlantis was docked to the space station for four days. On this mission, the Mir crew member Shannon Lucid was replaced by John Blaha , who flew back with STS-81 . After the exchange of supplies and experiments, the space shuttle returned to Earth after ten days on September 26th.
STS-89
On January 23, 1998, Wilcutt took off as commander of the space shuttle Endeavor to the Mir space station . One of the tasks of the mission was to exchange the US astronaut David A. Wolf on board the Mir for Andrew SW Thomas . Scientific equipment and supplies were also brought to the Mir.
STS-106
On September 8, 2000, Wilcutt took off as commander of the space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station (ISS). The main tasks of the mission were the transport of supplies and the preparation of the station for the arrival of the first regular crew . After docking with the ISS, Yuri Malenchenko and Edward Lu undertook a space exit to lay a cable between the ISS modules Zvezda and Zarya and to install a magnetometer . On September 20, 2000, the mission landed on Cape Canaveral after 11 days, 19 hours and 12 minutes.
Private
Terrence Wilcutt is married with two children.
See also
- List of spacemen
- List of space shuttle missions
- List of manned space flights
- List of manned missions to the Mir space station
- List of manned missions to the International Space Station
Web links
- Short biography of Terrence W. Wilcutt at spacefacts.de
- NASA biography of Terrence W. Wilcutt (English; PDF)
- Biography of Terrence W. Wilcutt in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
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| SURNAME | Wilcutt, Terrence W. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wilcutt, Terrence Wade |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Russellville (Kentucky) , Kentucky |