Curtis Brown

Curtis Lee " Curt " Brown, Jr. ( born March 11, 1956 in Elizabethtown, Bladen County, North Carolina ) is a former American astronaut.

  • STS -47 (1992)
  • STS -66 ( 1994)
  • STS -77 (1996)
  • STS -85 (1997)
  • STS -95 ( 1998)
  • STS- 103 (1999)

Life

Brown ended 1974, the high school in his hometown of Elizabethtown and acquired in 1978 the degree of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at the Academy of the U.S. Air Force.

From 1978 to 1986 he was employed at various U.S. Air Force bases in the United States. There he worked mainly as a test pilot and flight instructor for the A -10 and later for the F -16.

Astronauts activity

Starting in 1987, Brown took part in the one-year astronaut training. At the end of this program, Brown was trained as a shuttle pilot on. Since then, he has been used in many functions within NASA, especially as the connection spokesman.

STS -47

His first mission in which he was pilot of the shuttle Endeavour, was the fiftieth space flight of a space shuttle and the second space flight of Endeavour. It was an American- Japanese space mission in which the focus of the experiments was on natural sciences and to changes of materials in space.

STS -66

In this mission by shuttle Atlantis he had been re- classified as a pilot. The flight was mainly concerned with global warming and lasted eleven days.

STS -77

This mission was his last mission in which he has been employed as a pilot, he flew back to the Endeavour into space. For this mission, four objects were exposed to outer space, where the SPARTAN satellite was brought back from the spacecraft after mission again. The satellite had extended an antenna during the mission, which was as big as a tennis court and only weighed 66 kg.

STS -85

In his first mission as Commander Brown flew for the first time with the Discovery into space and put it to the German research satellite CRISTA -SPAS ( Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere ) to its second mission from. This satellite had to be because of the data transfer is always near the space ship. Another program was the test of a Japanese robot arm ( manipulator Flight Demonstration MFD ) for the Space Station. With his help, complicated work was carried out, the loosening of screws and opening doors.

STS -95

In this mission, again with the Discovery, Brown had the honor to lead the mission and to have the oldest people on board, who was by then in space, NASA veterans of the Mercury program, John Glenn, who at the age was taken from 77 years to test the effects of weightlessness on the elderly. Furthermore, there was also the first Japanese astronaut in space, Chiaki Mukai. Moreover, various experiments were made ​​and tested some spare parts for the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit.

STS -103

On his last mission, again as commander of the Discovery, the Hubble Space Telescope have been waiting for. In this case, the telescope was mainly a new computer.

With this flight, he pulled the same with astronauts John Young, Story Musgrave, Jerry Ross and Franklin Chang- Diaz, who completed six space flights before him.

Summary of spaceflight

According to the NASA

2013 Curtis was recorded with Eileen Collins and Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar at the Astronaut Hall of Fame.

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