Jerry L. Ross

STS 61- B ( 1985)
STS -27 ( 1988)
STS -37 (1991)
STS -55 ( 1993)
STS -74 (1995)
STS-88 (1998)
STS- 110 (2002)

Jerry Lynn Ross ( born January 20, 1948 in Crown Point, Indiana, USA ) is a former American astronaut and has made seven space flights became the first man.

Training

Ross studied mechanical engineering at Purdue University, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor and received a master's in 1972.

Then he went to the U.S. Air Force and was employed at Wright - Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio in the research labs for ramjet engines. There, he made studies of supersonic missiles that are launched on a railway carriage. These studies were used for the later ASALM rocket. From 1974 to 1975 he was the head of the local research institutions.

In 1976 he graduated from the test flyer price of the Air Force and then went to Edwards Air Force Base in California. In his new role, he became a test pilot of the Boeing RC - 135S and the Rockwell B-1. As chief test pilot of the B -1 project, he took care of the flight control systems of the bomber, had an all team members of the test crew and was responsible for creating the mission planning.

He has flown over 21 different types of aircraft and logged over 3,900 flight hours, most of them in military aircraft. He officially retired from the Air Force on 31 March 2000.

Astronauts activity

1979 Ross was payload officer for the Space Shuttle in the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. A year later he was selected as an astronaut and got as specialties the gripper arm of the space shuttle as well as outboard activities ( EVAs ) assigned.

He was in the support teams for space flights STS -41 -B, STS -41 -C and STS -51- A, as well as connecting speaker ( CapCom ) for the space flights STS -41 -B, STS -41 -C, STS -41 D, STS -51 and STS -51 -A -D.

STS -61- B

In this mission by shuttle Atlantis, in which three communications satellites were exposed, he served as a mission specialist. The flight was the second night launch of a space shuttle and had to be shortened by one and a half hours because of bad weather would have made a landing impossible otherwise.

STS -62 -A

STS -62- A should start in July 1986 as the first shuttle mission from Space Launch Complex 6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Robert Crippen would have commanded Discovery on the first shuttle mission in a polar orbit for the U.S. Department of Defense. The crew would have been next to Crippen from Guy Gardner, Dale Gardner, Richard Mullane, Jerry Ross, and the military astronauts John Watterson (MSE ) and the politician Edward Aldridge. The flight was canceled after the U.S. Department of Defense withdrew from the shuttle program after the Challenger disaster. Even later launched no more shuttle from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

STS -27

This four-day mission by shuttle Atlantis was a secret order of the U.S. Department of Defense, where the reconnaissance satellite Lacrosse was one suspended in December 1988.

STS -37

In this mission, also aboard the space shuttle Atlantis, was brought gamma ray Observatory CGRO into space in April 1991. There were problems with the activation of the antenna had to make an unscheduled exit into space during which they could activate the antenna manually after fifteen minutes Ross and his colleague Jay Apt. On the following day apt and he another, scheduled spacewalk conducted so that Ross was during this mission 10 hours and 49 minutes outside of the space shuttle.

STS -55

Ross' fourth flight led him to the Columbia space shuttle into space. The flight is known in Germany as the second German Spacelab mission "D -2". The ten-day flight had to be postponed several times due to various technical problems and could not begin until April 26, 1993. When the mission was first carried an IMAX camera. Also on this flight, the weather at the landing and thus not with the space shuttle at Edwards Air Force Base had to land. Also on board were two German astronaut Ulrich Walter and Hans Schlegel, who also launched their first space flight.

STS -74

His fifth flight he graduated again with the space shuttle Atlantis, which brought the developed and built in Russia coupling module SDM Mir space station. Objective of the mission was to deliver to the space station with supplies. In this mission a IMAX camera was carried again. With the films thus formed later many film-goers around the world could do with stunning images from space a picture of the life and work on the station. This mission was playing with the weather for a landing, and it could be landed as planned.

STS -88

For this mission, Ross has come into space aboard the space shuttle Endeavour. Object of this mission is the second part of the International Space Station, the U.S. Unity connecting node to connect to the first, already located in the All Russian Zarya module, and thus to take the space station in operation. Was Ross took over three EVAs and did this installation work. In addition, two smaller satellites was exposed, including an Argentine. This space flight, he moved with his fellow astronaut John Young, who is his role model for him, and Story Musgrave Franklin Chang- Diaz with six space flights the same.

STS -110

On his last mission, he came back again with the space shuttle Atlantis into space. Mission task was to bring the first of up to nine possible structural elements ( S0 ) of the International Space Station into space and assemble. Here, recourse was had to the EVA experience of Ross and he was allowed to make two spacewalks with a total of 14 hours and 9 minutes total duration. After this flight, he was the first man who has flown into space seven times.

After the space flight

Ross took over the management of the Vehicle Integration Test Office at the Johnson Space Center and Chief Astronaut for Safety and Engineering ( NESC ). On January 20, 2012, he retired from NASA.

Summary

Special features and Records

First man with seven space flights (STS- 110)
First grandfather at an EVA (STS- 110)
First and only astronaut who has flown five times with the Space Shuttle Atlantis

Honors

The primary school of his native city has been named after him
He holds honorary doctorates from Purdue University

Private

Jerry Ross is married to Karen Ross and has two children. Karen prepared personally before the spaceman food for her husband, he takes on his missions with them, and consumed in space. His daughter Amy designed the gloves he used in 1988 at its outboard activities.

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