Mary Ellen Weber ( born Mary Ellen Weber ; born 1962 ) is a NASA astronaut . She made two space shuttle flights : STS-70 (1995, Discovery ) and STS-101 (2000, Atlantis ), a scientist .
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| A country |  USA |
| Specialty | chemist |
| Expeditions | STS-70 , STS-101 |
| Time in space | 18 days 18 h 30 min |
| Date of Birth | August 24, 1962 (57 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Cleveland Ohio USA |
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Personal Information and Education
Mary Webber was born on August 24, 1962 in Cleveland , Ohio , but considers her city to be Bedford Heights, in the same state where she graduated from high school in 1980. In 1984, she received a bachelor 's degree in chemistry from Purdue University , Indiana . In 1988, she received a master 's degree in chemical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley .
She is married to Jerome L. Elkind, he is from the city of Bayonne, New Jersey . She is interested in skydiving, and also loves scuba diving and flying. Her mother, Joan Weber, lives in Mentor, Ohio; her father, Andrew Weber, Jr., has died. [1]
Before NASA
As a student, Weber was an intern in chemical engineering at Delco Electronics (a subsidiary of General Motors ) in Ohio and at 3M . In her doctoral dissertation at Berkeley, she investigated the physics of chemical reactions involving silicon . At Texas Instruments , she researched new materials and equipment for the manufacture of computer chips at the Sematech Consortium and Applied Materials . She has one patent and nine publications in scientific journals [2] .
Space Flight Training
March 31, 1992 was enrolled in the NASA squad as part of the fourteenth set , a candidate for astronauts . She began to study at the course of General Space Training (OKP). At the end of the course, in July 1993 she received the qualification of “flight specialist” and was appointed to the NASA Astronaut Office . Her terms of reference as part of a team of candidates for astronauts: assisting in the medical processing of the shuttles before launching at the Kennedy Space Research Center , Florida , working with payload and robotics. In the area of administrative tasks: she was chairman of the Procurement Council under biotechnological contracts.
Space Flight
- The first flight - STS-70 [3] , the Shuttle Discovery . From July 13 to July 22, 1995 as a “flight specialist”. The crew performed various experiments and put into orbit the sixth and final NASA satellite to track and relay data. The flight duration was 8 days 22 hours 21 minutes [4] .
- The second flight - STS-101 [5] , the shuttle Atlantis . From May 19 to May 29, 2000 as a “flight specialist”. The main objective of the mission was to deliver consumable materials and equipment to the International Space Station (ISS) and repair the electrical equipment of the Zarya module. The materials and equipment delivered to the station were housed in a dual Spacehab transport module, which was located in the cargo compartment of the shuttle. During the flight, astronauts performed one EVA on May 22, 2000. The flight duration was 9 days 20 hours 10 minutes [6] .
The total duration of space flights is 18 days 18 hours 30 minutes.
After flying
She retired from NASA in December 2002 [1] .
In December 2002, she received a master 's degree in business administration from Southern Methodist University . She dealt with legislative issues at NASA headquarters, as a liaison with the US Congress . As of January 2014, Weber is working as a consultant and speaker with STELLAR Strategies, LLC, an alternative energy company [7] .
Awards and Prizes
Awarded: Medal "For Space Flight" (1995 and 2000) and others.
See also
- List of astronauts and astronauts (and candidates) .
- List of US astronauts - participants in orbiting space flights .
- Timeline of manned spaceflight .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Weber, Mary . astronautix.com. Date of treatment March 3, 2019. Archived February 4, 2019.
- ↑ Astronaut Bio: Mary Ellen Weber . NASA Date of treatment March 3, 2019. Archived February 10, 2017.
- ↑ NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details . nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Date of treatment March 3, 2019.
- ↑ Lynda Warnock: KSC. NASA - STS-70 nasa.gov. Date of treatment March 3, 2019.
- ↑ NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details . nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Date of treatment March 3, 2019.
- ↑ Lynda Warnock: KSC. NASA - STS-101 (English) . nasa.gov. Date of treatment March 3, 2019.
- ↑ Stellar Keynotes - HOME (August 22, 2012).
Links
- spacefacts Biography of Mary E. Weber (link not available)
- NASA Biographical Data of Mary E. Weber