Horowitz, Scott

Scott Horowitz was born March 24, 1957 in Philadelphia , PA . In 1974, he graduated from high school in Newbury Park, California . In 1978, he received a bachelor 's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Northridge. At the Georgia Institute of Technology, he received degrees in aerospace engineering: in 1979 - a master's degree , and in 1982 - Ph. D ..

Married to Lisa Marie Kern, they have one child. He is passionate about: designing, building and flying on makeshift aircraft, rebuilding cars, interesting work and softball . His father, Seymour W. Horowitz, lives in Southend Oaks, California. His mother, Iris D. Chester, lives in Santa Monica, California. Her parents, Frank and Joan Ecker, live in Briarwood, New York. ^[1] .

After graduating from the institute in 1982, Horowitz worked as a research fellow at the Lockheed Aircraft Company in the state of Georgia, where he was involved in aerospace engineering research. In 1983, he graduated from the undergraduate school at the Williams, Arizona Air Force School. From 1984 to 1987, he flew T-38 Talon aircraft , served as an instructor pilot, and performed scientific research. The next two years he was a fighter pilot on F-15 Eagle aircraft at the Heathburg airbase in Germany . In 1990, Scott began training at the US Air Force Test Pilot School at the Edwards Air Force Base in California , and was left to serve at the same air base. In addition, from 1985 to 1989 he was an associate professor at Embry-Riddle Aerospace University, where he completed postgraduate studies in aircraft design, aircraft and rocket engines. In 1991, as a professor at the University of California at Fresno taught courses in mechanical engineering, including aspects of stability and controllability of devices. ^[2] .

He participated in the 13th set of NASA. March 31, 1992 was enrolled in the NASA squad as part of the fourteenth set , a candidate for astronauts . Since August 1992, he began to study at the course of General Space Training (OKP). At the end of the course, in July 1993 he received the qualification of “ship pilot” and was appointed to the NASA Astronaut Office . He performed the functions of a communications operator and was in the astronaut support group prior to launch and during landing at the Kennedy Space Center , Florida .

• The first flight is STS-75 ^[3] , the shuttle Columbia . From February 22 to March 9, 1996 as a "pilot of the ship." The main objectives of the STS-75 mission were to carry out experiments on the TSS-1R program (from the English Tether Satellite System ). The first unsuccessful attempt to launch the TSS tethered satellite into orbit was made during the 1992 STS-46 mission. This time, the satellite on the cable managed to be released more than 19 kilometers (however, then it broke and was left in orbit) ^[4] . Also, experiments were conducted on materials science and condensed matter physics using the USMP-3 program ( Eng. United States Microgravity Payload ) ^[5] . The flight duration was 15 days 17 hours 41 minutes ^[6] .

• The second flight - STS-82 ^[7] , the Shuttle Discovery . From February 11 to February 21, 1997 as a “pilot of a ship”. The purpose of the second flight to the telescope is to conduct maintenance and replace scientific instruments at the Hubble Space Telescope ^[8] . The flight duration was 9 days 23 hours 38 minutes ^[9] .

• The third flight is STS-101 ^[10] , the Atlantis shuttle . From May 19 to May 29, 2000 as a “pilot of a ship”. The main objective of the mission was the delivery of consumables and equipment to the International Space Station (ISS) and the repair of 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, Voss performed one spacewalk: May 22, 2000 - lasting 6 hours 44 minutes. The flight duration was 9 days 20 hours 10 minutes ^[11] .

• The fourth flight - STS-105 ^[12] , the Shuttle Discovery . From August 10 to 22, 2001 as a ship commander. The main objectives of STS-105 were to deliver the third long-term crew (ISS-3) to the International Space Station (11th shuttle flight to the ISS ^[13] ) and return the second crew ( ISS-2 ) to Earth . In addition, consumables ^[14] and retrofitting of the Destini laboratory module ^[15] were delivered. The flight duration was 11 days 21 hours 13 minutes. ^[16] .

The total duration of space flights is 47 days 10 hours 41 minutes.

October 22, 2004 he left the US Air Force, from the astronaut squad and from NASA . In the fall of 2005 he returned to NASA and was credited as an assistant director of NASA to the Directorate of Research Systems, became an astronaut-manager. November 26, 2007 quit NASA.

Awarded: Medal "For Space Flight" (1996, 1997, 2000 and 2001) and many others.

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