Stephen S. Oswald

  • STS -42 ( 1992)
  • STS -56 (1993)
  • STS -67 ( 1995)

Stephen Scot Oswald (born 30 July 1951 in Seattle, Washington State, USA ) is a former American astronaut.

Oswald received in 1973 a Bachelor in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the United States Naval Academy

Oswald went 1973 on the United States Navy and was stationed by his training as a naval aviator from 1975 to 1977 on the aircraft carrier USS Midway. He was then trained as a test pilot until 1981 used as such. As a pilot, instructor and catapult officer, he worked on the USS Coral Sea. After he retired from the active service of the Navy and joined as a civilian test pilot for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation.

Astronauts activity

In November 1984 Oswald came as a pilot instructor and aviation and aerospace engineer for NASA. After an unsuccessful bid for the tenth astronaut group, he was selected in June 1985 as an astronaut candidate by NASA the eleventh group. He was Head of Operations Development in the astronaut office and Assistant Director of Engineering at Johnson Space Center. After his third space flight he was Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Operations at NASA Headquarters in Washington. In July 1998 he returned to astronaut office. In January 2000 he retired from NASA.

STS -42

On 22 January 1992 Owald began as a pilot of Discovery for the first time into space. In the payload bay of the Space Shuttle there was the Microgravity Laboratory IML -1. The Spacelab module contained experiments to explore the complex effects of weightlessness on living organisms and other materials. In order to conduct experiments around the clock, the crew worked in shifts. Oswald was formed together with the astronauts grave, Thagard and Bondar the blue team, while Hilmer, Readdy and the German Ulf Merbold were the red team.

STS -56

On April 8, 1993 Oswald began as a pilot of the space shuttle Discovery into space. The nine-day mission, called ATLAS -2 (Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science ) explored the relationships in the interplay between the sun and Earth's atmosphere. It was the SPARTAN satellite, which examined the solar corona, exposed and captured again.

STS -67

On his third space mission Oswald flew on 2 March 1995 as commander of the space shuttle Endeavour into space. It was the second flight of the Astro observatory with three Ultra-Violet telescopes on board. The flight lasted 16 days and ended with a landing on 18 March 1995 at the Edwards Air Force Base in California.

According to the NASA

In December 2001, Oswald Space Shuttle vice president and program director at Boeing.

Private

Stephen Oswald is married and has three children.

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