Linanger, Jerry Michael

Education and scientific degrees

• In 1973 he graduated from high school (East Detroit High School) at Eastpoint.
• In 1977, he received a bachelor 's degree (biological sciences) from the US Naval Academy.
• In 1981, he received a doctorate in medicine from Wayne State University.
• In 1988, he received a master 's degree (systems management) from the University of Southern California.
• In 1989, he received a master's degree (healthcare) from the University of North Carolina .
• In 1989, he received a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the same university.

Professional Activities

After leaving the squad of astronauts and from the army, he works as a teacher at the School of Medicine at the Division of Sports Medicine at the University of California, San Diego .

Military Service

He completed an internship at the Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego and an internship in aerospace medicine at the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute in Pensacola . He served as a Navy flight surgeon based on Cubi Point in the Philippines .

He was appointed Medical Advisor to the Pacific Fleet Aviation Command in San Diego. Since 1989, he worked as a principal researcher at the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego. He resigned in January 1998.

Military rank - Captain of the United States Navy Commander of the United States Navy (in 1991). Captain Navy Medical Services (retired).

Space training: March 31, 1992 selected as a candidate for astronauts NASA's 14th set. He completed a one-year OKP course. Upon completion, she received the qualification of a flight specialist.

First flight September 9–20, 1994 as a specialist in the flight of the Shuttle Discovery STS-64 . The flight duration was 10 days 22 hours 50 minutes 59 seconds.

He was trained in the CPC them. Gagarin for a long flight to the Mir station .

Second flight From January 12 to May 24, 1997. From January 15, of them - as a flight engineer-2 as part of the 22nd and 23rd expeditions at the Mir station. Arrived at the station on the Atlantis shuttle STS-81 , returned to Earth on the Atlantis shuttle STS-84 .

On April 29, 1997, the first American astronaut to go into outer space in a Russian spacesuit from Mir station, lasting 4 hours 58 minutes.

The flight duration was 132 days 4 hours 1 minute 13 seconds.

He left the NASA astronaut squad in January 1998.

Marital Status

Married to Kathryn M. Bartmann (Kathryn M. Bartmann), they have four children (one of them is son John Bartmann, born 04.11.1995).

Hobbies

Triathlon , ocean swims , marathon , skiing (mountain and cross country), scuba diving , hiking . Radio amateur with the call sign KC5HBR. ^[one]

• Order of Friendship ( September 19, 1997 , Russia ) - for his great contribution to the development of Russian-American cooperation in space research ^[2] .

• Orbital station "Mir"
• Shuttle Discovery
• Shuttle Atlantis

• (Eng.) Biography on NASA's website (Retrieved April 1, 2009)
• (German) Cosmic facts: biography of a US astronaut (Retrieved April 1, 2009)