James D. Halsell

  • STS -65 ( 1994)
  • STS -74 (1995)
  • STS -83 (1997)
  • STS -94 (1997)
  • STS- 101 (2000)

James Donald "Jim" Halsell, Jr. ( born September 29, 1956 in West Monroe, Louisiana ) is a former American astronaut.

Halsell in 1978 received a bachelor's degree in engineering from the United States Air Force Academy, in 1983 a master's in management from Troy University in 1985 and a Masters Degree in Space Operations from the Air Force Institute of Technology.

The U.S. Air Force was formed Halsell from the pilot and test pilot. In July 2004, he retired from the Air Force.

Astronauts activity

In January 1990, Halsell was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate and then arranged for shuttle pilots.

STS -65

For the STS- 65 Halsell flew as pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia on 8 July 1994 for the first time into space. Around seven dozen experiments in the fields of biology and materials science were during the 15-day Spacelab flight on the program. On July 23, the Columbia landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

STS -74

On 12 September 1995 Halsell began as a pilot of the space shuttle Atlantis into space. STS -74 brought the developed and built in Russia coupling module SDM Mir space station. In addition, the space station was supplied with supplies.

STS -83

On 4 April 1997 Halsell began as commander of the space shuttle Columbia into space. Payload was the Microgravity Science Laboratory ( MSL -1). Due to an issue with a fuel cell of the space shuttle mission had to be shortened and carried out the landing after almost four days. NASA decided to repeat the mission three months later with the same crew.

STS -94

On 1 July 1997 launched the Columbia to repeat in April prematurely aborted MSL - 1 mission under the name STS -94. This time, the experiments in the Microgravity Science Laboratory could be carried out successfully. These included notably attempts to study the physical properties of the supercooled liquid mixtures and the combustion processes of solid and liquid materials as well as for the production of pure protein crystals.

STS -101

On 19 May 2000 Halsell flew as commander of the space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station (ISS). With the mission STS -101 about 1500 kg of equipment, hardware and supplies for the planned first permanent crew of the ISS using the Spacehab and the Integrated Cargo Carrier ( ICC) were transported.

According to the NASA

In November 2006, Halsell retired from NASA to take a job at ATK Launch Systems in Utah.

Private

James Halsell and his wife Kathy have two children.

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