William George Gregory

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William Gregory
William Gregory
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on Jan 17, 1990
( 13th NASA Group )
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: March 2, 1995
Landing: March 18, 1995
Time in space: 16d 15h 8min
retired on July 1999
Space flights
Gregory greets his children before the start

William George "Borneo" Gregory (born May 14, 1957 in Lockport , New York State ) is a former American astronaut .

Gregory received a degree in mechanical engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1979 and a masters degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University in 1980 . In 1984 he received a Masters in Management from Troy State University .

From 1981 to 1986 Gregory was a fighter pilot and pilot instructor in Lakenheath, England and at Cannon Air Force Base , New Mexico. In 1987 he attended the US Air Force Test Pilot School and was used as a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base in California from 1988 to 1990 .

Astronaut activity

In January 1990, Gregory was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate. In addition to various other activities in the astronauts office, he was also head of the spacecraft operations department.

STS-67

On his first and only space mission, Gregory flew into space on March 2, 1995 as a pilot of the space shuttle Endeavor . It was the astro-observatory's second flight with three ultra-violet telescopes on board. The flight lasted over 16 days and ended with landing on March 18, 1995 at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

According to NASA

In the summer of 1999 Gregory left NASA and the Air Force and worked until August 2008 as Manager of Business Development for Honeywell in Phoenix , then for Micro-Tronics . In November 2010 he became Head of Business Development at Qwaltec in Tempe .

Life and private life

William Gregory is of Albanian descent, the family is originally from Korça . Gregory was baptized in St. Elijah's Albanian Orthodox Church in Jamestown, New York. Gregory is married with two children.

See also

Web links

Commons : William G. Gregory  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Qwaltec hires Bill Gregory as Vice President of Business Development. Qwaltec, November 11, 2010, archived from the original on December 27, 2012 ; accessed on December 19, 2012 .
  2. ^ Peter R. Eisenstadt, Laura-Eve Moss: The Encyclopedia of New York State . Syracuse University Press , May 19, 2005, ISBN 0-8156-0808-X , p. 40 (accessed April 22, 2017): "" the same community founded St. Elia Albanian Orthodox Church, the first such church in the state. Astronaut William Gregory (1957-), an Albanian American from Lockport (Niagara Co), was baptized at St. Elia. "
  3. ↑ Ramiz Lushaj: Me ameriken jemi te bashkuar edhe ne hene. June 12, 2007, accessed on January 3, 2013 (Albanian): “Shqiptaro-American William G. Gregory, nga Korca, qe paraardhesit e tij shkelen ne token amerikane ne fillim te shek. XX, ka hyre ne enciklopedite e Kozmosit. "
personal data
SURNAME Gregory, William George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borneo (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Lockport , NY