Timothy John Creamer

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Timothy Creamer
Timothy Creamer
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on June 4, 1998
( 17th NASA Group )
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: December 20, 2009
Landing: June 2, 2010
Time in space: 163d 05h 33min
retired on May 2011
Space flights

Timothy John Creamer (born November 15, 1959 in Fort Huachuca , Arizona , USA ) is a former American astronaut .

Creamer received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Loyola College in 1982 . In the same year he joined the US Army and was trained as a pilot there. In 1992 he received a Masters in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then joined the United States Military Academy as Assistant Professor of Physics .

Astronaut activity

In 1995, Creamer joined NASA as an engineer before being selected as an astronaut candidate in June 1998. He completed a two-year training course for the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station (ISS). He was then responsible for technical issues related to the ISS. From November 2000 he was on the support team for the crew of the ISS Expedition 3 , which was on the ISS from August to December 2001. After working for the space station department of the astronauts office, he later moved to the robotics department.

In November 2008, Creamer was assigned to ISS expeditions 22 and 23 as a flight engineer. The launch with the Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft took place on December 20, 2009 together with the Russian Oleg Kotow and the Japanese Sōichi Noguchi . On June 2, 2010, the three spacemen returned to Earth in the same spaceship.

Other activities for NASA

After his active astronaut career, Creamer worked as Payload Operations Director at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama . On September 22, 2015, NASA announced that Creamer was one of five new flight controllers at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . This makes Creamer the first astronaut to become a flight controller.

Private

Creamer is married with two children. His hobbies are tennis, running, reading and information technology.

Web links

Commons : Timothy Creamer  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NASA: NASA Selects Five New Flight Directors to Lead Mission Control. In: NASA Press Release J15-023. September 22, 2015, accessed October 18, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Creamer, Timothy John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Huachuca , Arizona , USA