Winston E. Scott
- STS -72 ( 1996)
- STS -87 (1997)
Winston Elliott Scott ( born August 6, 1950 in Miami, Florida, United States) is a former American astronaut.
Scott received a bachelor's degree in music in 1972 from Florida State University and a master's in 1980 aeronautical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School.
In December 1972, Scott ran for the United States Navy, where he received training as a naval aviator and helicopter pilot. From 1974, he was stationed for four years in an anti - submarine squadron Helikoter in California. As an F -14 pilot, he was later stationed in Virginia. Starting in 1986, followed by deployments still in Florida and Pennsylvania. Besides, he was instructor of electrical engineering at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and Florida Community College.
Astronauts activity
In March 1992, he was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate.
STS -72
On January 11, 1996 Scott flew as a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Endeavour for the first time into space. The team began a ten months earlier launched Japanese Space Flyer Unit platform and sat for two days a platform from ODST. In two spacewalks assembly techniques were simulated in order to gain experience for the future International Space Station.
STS -87
On 19 November 1997 Scott started as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Columbia on the Spacelab mission " United States Microgravity Payload 4". Here, Scott conducted together with Takao Doi two spacewalks ( EVAs ). In the first EVA, they began a the exposed at the beginning of the flight research satellites SPARTAN, who had run into an uncontrolled tumble. In addition, the first time you tried the so-called AERCam, a 40 -centimeter ball that comes with a position control, and a camera system, can explore inaccessible structures. Scott had him from floating out of the payload bay and Steven Lindsey AERCam controlled by remote control from the cockpit.
According to the NASA
In July 1999, Scott retired from NASA and the U.S. Navy and was at Florida State University vice president for student affairs. He then worked as director of the Florida Space Authority. He is currently Vice President and Deputy General Manager of Jacobs Engineering 's Support Contract at the Johnson Space Center.
Private
Winston Scott is married and has two children.