Jeffrey Shears "Bons" Ashby ( eng. Jeffrey Shears "Bones" Ashby ; b. 1954 ) - a NASA astronaut . He flew three space flights on shuttles : STS-93 (1999, Columbia ), STS-100 (2001, Endeavor ) and STS-112 (2002, Atlantis ), Captain 1st Rank of the US Navy .
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A country | USA |
Specialty | pilot test |
Military rank | Captain 1st Rank US Navy |
Expeditions | STS-93 , STS-100 , STS-112 |
Time in space | 27 days 16 h 19 min |
Date of Birth | June 16, 1954 (65 years) |
Place of Birth | Dallas Texas USA |
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Personal Information and Education
Jeffrey Ashby was born on June 16, 1954 in Dallas , Texas . In 1972 he graduated from high school in Evergreen, Colorado . In 1976 he received a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Idaho . In 1993 he received a Master of Science degree in aviation systems at the University of Tennessee .
Single Raised in the mountains of Colorado, likes to ski, hiking, fly fishing. [1] .
Until NASA
In 1986 he graduated from the Naval School of Armaments. In 1988 he graduated from the Naval School of Test Pilots. As a test pilot of the Navy, Ashby participated in the testing of the first FA-18 aircraft: its control and flight tests of electronic and intelligent weapons systems. He participated in the testing of more than 80 projects, including ammunition and flight performance in night attacks, reconnaissance versions of Hornet.
For 16 years as a Navy airman, Ashby had five duty stations, flew A-7E Corsair and F / A-18 Hornet aircraft , served aboard the aircraft carriers Constellation , Coral Sea, Midway , and " A. Lincoln ." He participated in the Gulf War , in the Desert Shield , Desert Storm, Looking South South operations in Iraq , and in Operation Continued Hope in Somalia . Ashby made 33 combat sorties on the FA-18 during Operation Desert Storm . It has more than 5,000 flight hours and 1000 landings on aircraft carrier decks. At the time of the invitation to NASA, Ashby served as commander of the shock squadron 94 [2] .
Preparing for space flight
In December 1994, he was admitted to the NASA squad of the fifteenth intake , a candidate astronaut . Since March 1995, he began to study at the course of general space training (OKP). At the end of the course, in May 1996, he received the qualification of a shuttle pilot and was assigned to the NASA astronaut office .
Space Flight
- The first flight - STS-93 [3] , shuttle " Columbia ". From July 23 to July 28, 1999 as a pilot of the ship. The main mission of the flight was the launching into orbit of the Chandra Space X-ray Observatory [4] . The launch date of the AXAF and the start of the STS-93 has been repeatedly postponed and transferred. Slapped in August 1998 - moved to the end of the year due to delays at the assembly stage [5] , then by several weeks due to “poor conductivity” between the layers of printed circuit boards (but thus, the starting time coincided with the launch of STS-96 , and STS-93 was postponed for the summer) [6] . After two unsuccessful attempts, the start of Columbia took place on July 23, 1999 [4] . The flight duration was 4 days 22 hours 50 minutes [7]
- The second flight - STS-100 [8] , shuttle " Endeavor ". From April 19 to May 1, 2001 as a pilot of the ship. The main tasks of the STS-100 under the program to continue the assembly of the International Space Station (the 15th flight to the ISS, the 9th shuttle flight to the ISS [9] ) were the delivery to the ISS of the SSRMS remote manipulator and equipment and cargo [10] for the crew of the 2nd main expedition . The STS-100 delivered to the ISS one of the main elements of the Mobile Servicing System MSS (from the English Mobile Servicing System ) is the remote manipulator of the Space Station Remote Space Station Remote Manipulator ( SSRMS ), developed and created by the Canadian company MDA Space Missions (previously called MD Robotics, and even earlier - SPAR Aerospace). The SSRMS manipulator, along with some other elements of the MSS, is the contribution of Canada to the project of the International Space Station, and is designed to perform operations on the construction and maintenance of the station throughout its flight [10] . The flight duration was 11 days, 21 hours, 31 minutes [11] .
- The third flight - STS-112 [12] , shuttle " Atlantis ". C 7 to October 18, 2002 as a "commander of the ship." The purpose of the flight - delivery to the International Space Station of the S1 section of the Main Farm , scientific equipment and cargo. During the flight, he performed three spacewalks: on October 10, 2002, with a duration of 7 hours and 1 minute, the astronauts connected the power and data buses (trusses) of section S1 to section S0 , removed the starting fixtures of the radiator beam and the CETA-A trolley S-band SASA. On October 12, 2002 - 6 hours 4 minutes, SPD devices were installed on QD hydraulic connectors, the docking of hydraulic lines leading to ammonia tanks on section S1 continued the removal of starter mountings for radiator beam and CETA-A truck. October 14 - 6 hours 36 minutes, restored the operability of the IUA connectors block of the mobile conveyor, installed jumpers between the ammonia circuits S0 and S1, installed the SPD devices (shutdown). The flight duration was 10 days 19 hours 59 minutes [13] .
The total duration of flights into space is 27 days 16 hours 19 minutes.
After the flight
In June 2008, he left the astronaut detachment.
Awards and prizes
Awarded: Medal "For Space Flight" (1999, 2001 and 2002), Medal "For Excellent Service" (USA) , Order "Legion of Honor" , Flight Merit Cross (USA) , Medal "For Commendable Service" (USA) , Medal meritorious service (USA) , Air Medal (USA) (four times), Medal "For Achievements", Best Sea Pilot of the Year (1991), Medal "For Outstanding Leadership" , Medal "For Exceptional Merit" and many others.
See also
- List of astronauts and astronauts (and candidates) .
- List of US astronauts - participants in orbital space flight .
- Chronology of manned space flight .
Notes
- ↑ Biography of Jeffrey S. Ashby
- ↑ Biography of Jeffrey S. Ashby
- ↑ NASA - NSSDC - Spacecraft - Details
- ↑ 1 2 Lisov I. STS-93: The great success of Aileen Collins and X-ray astronomy (Rus.) // Astronautics news : magazine. - 1999. - № 9 .
- ↑ Golovkov S. The tests of the AXAF-I observatory are continuing (Rus.) // Cosmonautics news : magazine. - 1998. - № 4/5 .
- ↑ Lisov I. Delays with the “Chandra” are continuing (Rus.) // Astronautics news : magazine. - 1999. - № 3 .
- ↑ NASA - STS-93
- ↑ NASA - NSSDC - Spacecraft - Details
- ↑ Stages of deployment of the ISS (Inaccessible link) . RSC Energia . The appeal date is November 22, 2010. Archived June 15, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 Zhuravin Y. Loads of STS-100 (Rus.) // Cosmonautics News : Journal. - 2001. - № 6 .
- ↑ NASA - STS-100
- ↑ NASA - NSSDC - Spacecraft - Details
- ↑ NASA - STS-112