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Christopher J. Ferguson
Ferguson's Commercial Crew program portrait, photographed in 2018
Born
September 1, 1961
(age 61)
Philadelphia
,
Pennsylvania
, U.S.
Status
Retired (Boeing) / Retired (NASA)
Nationality
American
Alma mater
Drexel University
, B.S. 1984
Naval Postgraduate School
, M.S. 1991
Occupation
Test pilot
Space career
NASA
/
Boeing
Astronaut
Rank
Captain
,
USN
Time in space
40d 10h 03m
Selection
1998 NASA Group 17
Missions
STS-115
,
STS-126
,
STS-135
Mission insignia
Christopher J. "Fergy" Ferguson (born September 1, 1961) is a
Boeing
commercial astronaut
and a retired
United States Navy
Captain
and
NASA
astronaut
. He was the pilot of
Space Shuttle
Atlantis
on his first mission to space,
STS-115
, which launched on September 9, 2006 and returned to Earth on September 21, 2006. He then commanded
STS-126
aboard
Space Shuttle
Endeavour
. In 2011, he was assigned as commander of
STS-135
, which was the final mission of the
space shuttle program
.
On December 9, 2011, he retired from NASA and became director of Crew and Mission Operations for
Boeing
's Commercial Crew Program. In August 2018, Ferguson was assigned to the first test flight of the
Boeing CST-100 Starliner
, although he stepped down from the mission in October 2020.
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David Carl Hilmers
Born
January 28, 1950
(age 72)
Clinton, Iowa
, U.S.
Status
Retired
Nationality
American
Alma mater
Cornell College
, B.A. 1972
Naval Postgraduate School
, M.S. 1977, E.E.E. 1978
Baylor College of Medicine
, M.D. 1995
UTHealth
, MPH 2002
Occupation
Engineer
,
Physician
Space career
NASA
Astronaut
Rank
Colonel
,
USMC
Time in space
20d 14h 16m
Selection
1980 NASA Group 9
Missions
STS-51-J
,
STS-26
,
STS-36
,
STS-42
Mission insignia
David  Hilmers,
M.D.
(born January 28, 1950) is a former
NASA
astronaut
who flew four
Space Shuttle
missions. He was born in
Clinton, Iowa
, but considers
DeWitt, Iowa
, to be his hometown. He has two grown sons. His recreational interests include playing the piano, gardening, electronics, spending time with his family, and all types of sports. His parents are deceased. With five academic degrees, he is the second most formally educated U.S. astronaut, behind
Story Musgrave
with six.
NASA experience
Hilmers was selected a NASA astronaut in July 1980 and completed the initial training period in August 1981. In 1983 he was selected as a member of the launch-ready standby crew. His early NASA assignments have included work on rocket upper stages such as
PAM
,
IUS
, and
Centaur
, as well as Shuttle software verification at the
Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory
(SAIL). In addition, he was the Astronaut Office training coordinator, worked on various Department of Defense payloads, served as a spacecraft communicator (
CAPCOM
) at Mission Control for
STS-41-D
,
STS-41-G
,
STS-51-A
,
STS-51-C
and
STS-51-D
, worked Space Station issues for the Astronaut Office, and served as head of the Mission Development Branch within the Astronaut Office. In May 1985 he was named to the crew of
STS-61-F
, which was to deploy the
Ulysses
spacecraft on an interplanetary trajectory using a Centaur upper stage. This mission was to have flown in May 1986, but the Shuttle Centaur project was terminated in July 1986, and Hilmers then worked in the areas of ascent abort development, payload safety, and Shuttle on-board software. During 1987 he was involved in training for STS-26 and in flight software development. He later became head of the Mission Development branch in the astronaut office.
A veteran of four space flights, he has logged over 493 hours in space. He served as a mission specialist on STS-51-J (October 3–7, 1985), STS-26 (September 29 to October 3, 1988), STS-36 (February 28 to March 4, 1990), and STS-42 (January 22–30, 1992).
Space flight experience
STS-51-J
Atlantis
, a classified
Department of Defense
mission, launched from
Kennedy Space Center
,
Florida
, on October 3, 1985. This was the maiden voyage of the Orbiter
Atlantis
. Hilmers had prime responsibility for a number of on-orbit activities during the mission. After 98 hours of orbital operations,
Atlantis
landed at
Edwards Air Force Base
, California, on October 7, 1985.
STS-26
Discovery
, the first mission to be flown after the
Challenger
accident
, was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on September 29, 1988. During the four-day mission, the crew successfully deployed the
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
(TDRS-C), which was subsequently carried to orbit by the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) rocket. They also operated eleven mid-deck experiments.
Discovery
completed 64 orbits of the Earth before landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on October 3, 1988.
STS-36
Atlantis
launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on February 28, 1990. This mission carried Department of Defense payloads and a number of secondary payloads. After 72 orbits of the Earth, the STS-36 mission concluded with a lakebed landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on March 4, 1990, after traveling 1.87 million miles.
Hilmers replaced another astronaut, killed in a plane crash, for his last mission.
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STS-42
Discovery
launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on January 22, 1992. Fifty-five major experiments conducted in the International Microgravity Laboratory-1 module were provided by investigators from eleven countries, and represented a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines. During 128 orbits of the Earth, the STS-42 crew accomplished the mission's primary objective of investigating the effects of microgravity on materials processing and life sciences. In this unique laboratory in space, crew members worked around-the-clock in two shifts. Experiments investigated the microgravity effects on the growth of protein and semiconductor crystals. Biological experiments on the effects of zero gravity on plants, tissues, bacteria, insects and human vestibular response were also conducted. This eight-day mission culminated in a landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on January 30, 1992.
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