Clayton Anderson

Conrad Clayton " Clay" Anderson ( born February 23, 1959 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA ) is a former American astronaut. He graduated from June to November 2007, extended stay aboard the International Space Station ( ISS). He left NASA in February 2013.

Training

Clayton Anderson graduated from Ashland- Greenwood High School in Ashland, Nebraska in 1977. At Hastings College in 1981, he reached a bachelor's degree in physics at Iowa State University in 1983 a master's degree in aeronautics and space technology.

Spaceman activity

After studying Anderson joined NASA. At the Johnson Space Center in Houston, he was a specialist in trajectories. On the preparation and in-flight STS -34 in 1989 and STS -31 in 1990, he was directly involved.

Anderson competed as an astronaut ( NASA group 16), was born on January 21, 1996 in the final round, but was then condemned and rejected in the first attempt. His second attempt was successful, and he was presented on 5 June 1998 with the 17th NASA group to the public as a future astronaut. Before he was assigned to a space flight, he worked on an extension of the security system of shuttle cockpit, 2001/2002 in the support crew was the ISS Expedition 4 and worked as Capcom. In addition, he was trained for spacewalks.

NEEMO 5

From 16 to June 29, 2003 he participated in the NASA undersea laboratory NEEMO 5 On board the Aquarius were Ryan Snow, James Talacek, Emma Hwang and NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and Garrett Reisman. All three astronauts were later than ISS permanent guests on the ISS or are planned as such.

ISS Expedition 15

Anderson was since December 2003 flight engineer in the reserve team ( double for Sunita Williams ) of the ISS Expedition 14 to the International Space Station (ISS ) launched in September 2006. Anderson was then classified as ISS flight engineer for ISS expedition 15 in January 2005 and launched on 8 June 2007 with the Shuttle mission STS -117 to the space station. He worked and lived for five months on the ISS, before he returned with STS -120 on November 7, 2007.

STS -131

On 5 December 2008 Anderson was appointed as Mission Specialist for mission STS -131. The launch took place on April 5, 2010, the landing on April 20, 2010. Together with Richard Mastracchio he performed three spacewalks.

Private

Anderson is married and has two children.

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