John Herrington

• STS- 113 (2002)

John Bennett Herrington ( born September 14, 1958 in Wetumka, Oklahoma, United States) is a former American astronaut. He was the first Indian who flew into space.

Herrington, who belongs to the Indian people of the Chickasaw, 1983 he received a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado. From 1984 he was a naval aviator, pilot instructor and test pilot before he was selected as an astronaut. In 1995, he earned a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School.

Astronauts activity

In April 1996, he was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate. At the Johnson Space Center, he worked for the astronaut office, where he helped as a member of the astronaut support crews for the takeoff and landing maneuvers of the space shuttle.

STS -113

On November 24, 2002, he flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station. STS -113 was the last shuttle mission of 2002 and also the last successful flight before the crash of the space shuttle Columbia two months later. The Endeavour transported while the lattice structure of P1 to further expand the space station. In three spacewalks Herrington mounted together with Michael López- Alegría the 12 -ton structure to the ISS. In addition, the ISS crew of Expedition 5 was replaced by three new astronauts of Expedition 6.

According to the NASA

In September 2005, Herrington resigned from NASA and was vice president and director of flight Rocketplane Global. After two years he left the company in December 2007.