David Wolf (astronaut)
David Alexander Wolf ( born August 23, 1956 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA ) is a former American astronaut.
Wolf in 1978 received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1982 and a doctorate in medicine from Indiana University. His medical internship he completed in 1983 at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis and then at the basic training for flight surgeon at the Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio ( Texas).
Wolf came 1983 on the Medical Sciences Division at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Astronauts activity
In January 1990, Wolf was selected as astronaut candidate by NASA. After training as a mission specialist, he worked on the maintenance of the Space Shuttle at the Kennedy Space Center and as a connecting speakers in Control Panel. In addition, he trained for his long-term stay on the Mir space station at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City near Moscow. Later he worked as Head of the Department for spacewalks of the Astronaut Office. Wolf left NASA in December 2012.
STS -58
On October 18th In 1993, Wolf, who is called by his colleagues, " Bluto ", as mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia for his first space flight. These were the Spacelab mission SLS -2 and served the research into the effects of weightlessness on the human body.
Mir- stay
On 26 September 1997, he flew aboard the space shuttle Atlantis ( STS -86 ) for a four-month long stay on the Mir space station. During this time, the crew worked among other things on the repair of the damaged Spektr module, which was rammed in June 1997 by an unmanned Progress cargo. Here, Wolf took on 14 January 1998 its first spacewalk to inspect the Mir from the outside. With the Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS -89 ), he landed on January 31, again in 1998 at the Kennedy Space Center.
STS -112
On 7 October 2002, he flew as a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station (ISS). This 390 million dollar and 14 -ton lattice structure S1 to the International Space Station (ISS ) has been implicated. Wolf and his colleague Sellers mounted the grating element with three spacewalks ( EVAs ).
STS -127
In February 2008, Wolf was assigned to his fourth space flight. Under the command of Mark Polansky, he participated in the mission STS -127, were brought to the Japanese modules to the ISS. The launch took place on 15 July 2009, the landing on July 31, 2009. Wolf introduced thanks to three spacewalks.