Stanley G. Love

• STS- 122 (2008)

Stanley Glen Love ( born June 8, 1965 in San Diego, California, USA ) is an American astronaut.

Love Harvey Mudd College, studied at the California physics and earned a bachelor's degree in 1987. Then he moved to the University of Washington and took the tray and Astronomy: In 1989 he received a master's degree and four years later his doctorate.

During his studies, astronomy Love worked as a research assistant in areas such as space propulsion or Stellarfotometrie. Following his graduation, he went to the University of Hawaii. There he examined how form chondrites and the collision behavior of asteroids. In 1997 he got a job at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. As an engineer, he created computer models of spacecraft instruments.

Astronauts activity

In June 1998, Love was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate. After the two-year basic training, he was for a long time as CapCom for the radio traffic of Space Station and Shuttle flights.

From the summer of 2006 coached Love for his first space flight as a mission specialist on shuttle mission STS- 122. Main payload was the European Columbus laboratory, which was docked at the International Space Station. The launch took place on 7 February 2008. In the first spacewalk to install Columbus Love was used for the German astronaut Hans Schlegel. The landing took place on 20 February 2008.

In the period from 20 to 26 October 2011, he was with Michael Landon Gernhardt and Richard Robert Arnold in the Moon & asteroid landing simulation of underwater NEEMO mission - 15th