John Bennett Herrington ( born John Bennett Herrington ; born 1958 ) - NASA astronaut . He made one space flight on the shuttle : STS-113 (2002, Endeavor ), made three EVAs, the captain of the 2nd rank of the US Navy . The first member of the Native American people ( chicaso ) to be in outer space ( William Reed Pog , who is originally a Choctaw , but is not officially a member).
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| A country |  USA |
| Specialty | test pilot |
| Military rank | US Navy 2nd Captain |
| Expeditions | STS-113 |
| Time in space | 13 days 18 h 47 min |
| Date of Birth | September 14, 1958 (aged 60) |
| Place of Birth | Vetumka, Oklahoma , USA |
Personal Information and Education
John Herrington was born on September 14, 1958 in the city of Vetumka, Oklahoma . He grew up in cities: Colorado Springs , Colorado , Riverton , Wyoming , and Plaino , Texas , where he graduated from high school in 1976. In 1983, he received a bachelor of science degree in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. In June 1995, he received a Master of Science degree in Aviation Engineering from the Navy Graduate School.
Married to Deborah Anne Farmer, she is from Colorado Springs, they have two children. His hobbies: climbing , skiing, running , cycling . His parents live in Spicewood, Texas. His brother, James E. Herrington, Jr., lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. His sister, Jennifer D. Monschagen, lives in Austin, Texas. Her parents live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. [1]
Before NASA
In March 1984, Herrington entered the Aviation School and in March 1985 became a naval pilot. It was distributed at Moffett Field Airbase, in Mountain View, California , for initial training on the P-3C Orion . His first assignments involved the sequential patrolling of three areas of operational responsibility, two in the northern Pacific Ocean from the Adak Air Base, Alaska and one in the western Pacific from the Cuban Air Base, Republic of the Philippines . Herrington was the commander of a patrol aircraft, the commander of a ship, and an instructor pilot. In January 1990, he was sent to the Naval Test Pilot School at an air base in Pataxent , Maryland . After graduating in December 1990, he began to fly on numerous variants of the P-3 Orion, T-34C and DeHavilland 7 aircraft. Herrington was appointed Special Projects Officer at the Bureau of Marine Testing when he heard of the invitation to NASA . It has a flight time of more than 2,300 hours on more than 30 different types of aircraft [2] .
Space Flight Training
May 1, 1996 was enrolled in the NASA squad as part of the sixteenth set , a candidate for astronauts . He began to study at the course of General Space Training (OKP). At the end of the course, in 1998 he received the qualification of “flight specialist” and was appointed to the NASA Astronaut Office . He was appointed to the Department of Shuttle Systems and Operations.
Space Flight
- The first flight - STS-113 [3] , the shuttle Endeavor . From November 24 to December 7, 2002 as a “flight specialist”. The purpose of the flight is to replace the crew of the International Space Station , continue the construction of the ISS and deliver materials and equipment to continue the long-term crew of the station. According to the ISS assembly program, the mission was designated as 11A. STS-113 delivered the P1 Truss section ( Port Side Thermal Radiator Truss ). The flight specialists performed three EVAs, installed and activated the P1 Truss. About 1969 kg of cargo from the station returned to STS-113. On December 2, after undocking with the station, two MEPSI picosatellites were launched from the shuttle. This flight became the sixteenth Space Shuttle to the ISS, the nineteenth Space Shuttle Endeavor during its operation and the 112th Space Shuttle space flight. Flight STS-113 was the last successful mission before the death of Columbia . During the flight, I performed three EVAs : November 26 - 6 hours 45 minutes, the P1 Truss section was connected to the S0 section, and the detents of the CETA-B carriage on the P1 section were dismantled. October 28 - 6 hours 10 minutes, a WETA transmitter is installed on the P1 section, reinstalling the CETA-B trolley from the P1 section to S1. November 30 - 7:00, equipping ammonia highways hydraulic connectors with SPD inserts, connecting hydraulic lines to section P1. The flight duration was 13 days 18 hours 47 minutes [4] .
The total duration of extra-ship activity (ACV) for 3 exits is 21 hours 55 minutes. The total duration of space flights is 13 days 18 hours 47 minutes.
After flying
In July 2004, he participated in NASA’s sixth mission in extreme environmental operations (NEEMO 6).
In 2004, he was assigned to the crew of the long-term expedition ISS-15 , but at the beginning of 2005 was replaced by astronaut John Gransfeld . In July 2005, he left the astronaut squad and NASA .
In 2016, Herrington published a children's book “Mission to Space”, in which he shares his passion for space travel, talks about his training and mission to the ISS. The book includes a dictionary with the translation of space terms from English into the language of Chicago [5] .
Awards and Prizes
Awarded: Medal "For Space Flight" (2002) and many others.
Personal life
Married, two children. Hobbies: climbing, skiing, running, cycling [6] .
See also
- List of astronauts and astronauts (and candidates) .
- List of US astronauts - participants in orbiting space flights .
- Chronology of manned space flights (2000s) .
Notes
- ↑ Biography of John B. Herrington
- ↑ Astronaut Bio: John Bennett Herrington (8/2005) . jsc.nasa.gov. Date of treatment February 25, 2019.
- ↑ NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details . nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Date of treatment February 25, 2019.
- ↑ Lynda Warnock: KSC. NASA - STS-113 nasa.gov. Date of treatment February 25, 2019.
- ↑ “Chickasaw astronaut shares passion for space in new children's book” Archived on January 4, 2017. Chickasaw Nation Media Relations Office . October 17, 2016.
- ↑ Astronaut Biography: John Herrington . spacefacts.de. Date of treatment January 28, 2019.