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Rex Joseph Walheim (born October 10, 1962) is a retired
United States Air Force
officer,
engineer
and
NASA
astronaut
. He flew three
space shuttle
missions,
STS-110
,
STS-122
, and
STS-135
. Walheim logged over 566 hours in space, including 36 hours and 23 minutes of spacewalk (EVA) time. He was assigned as
mission specialist
and
flight engineer
on
STS-135
, the final space shuttle mission.
Education
Walheim graduated from
San Carlos High School
in 1980 and received a
Bachelor of Science
degree in
mechanical engineering
from the
University of California, Berkeley
in 1984. He then received a
Master of Science
degree in
industrial engineering
from the
University of Houston
in 1989.
Military career
Walheim was commissioned as a
second lieutenant
in the
Air Force
in May 1984. In April 1985 he was assigned to
Cavalier Air Force Station
in
Cavalier, North Dakota
, where he worked as a missile warning operations crew commander. In October 1986, he was reassigned to the
Johnson Space Center
, in
Houston, Texas
, where he worked as a mechanical systems
flight controller
and was the lead operations engineer for the
Space Shuttle
landing gear, brakes, and emergency runway barrier.
Walheim was transferred to Headquarters
Air Force Space Command
in
Colorado Springs, Colorado
, in August 1989, where he was manager of a program upgrading missile warning radars. He was selected for
USAF Test Pilot School
in 1991, and attended the course at
Edwards AFB
in California in 1992. Following graduation, he was assigned to the
F-16
Combined Test Force at Edwards where he was a project manager, and then commander of the avionics and armament flight. In January 1996, Walheim became an instructor at USAF Test Pilot School, where he served until he began astronaut training.
Walheim represented space exploration in an astronaut suit as he passed the Obama and Biden families in the reviewing stand for their 2009 inaugural parade.
NASA career
Walheim served as a flight controller and operations engineer at the Johnson Space Center from October 1986 to January 1989. He was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate in March 1996 and reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. Having completed two years of training and evaluation, he was qualified for flight assignment as a mission specialist. Initially, Walheim was assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Space Station Operations Branch. Walheim flew three flights,
STS-110
,
STS-122
and
STS-135
, the final flight of the shuttle, logging over 566 hours in space, including over 36 hours and 23 minutes of EVA time. After his first flight, he was assigned to the EVA branch, where he served as the astronaut office representative for the Extra Vehicular Mobility Unit (the EVA
spacesuit
).
In September 2002, Walheim served as an
aquanaut
on the joint NASA-
NOAA
NEEMO 4
expedition (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations), an exploration research mission held in
Aquarius
, the world's only
undersea research laboratory
, four miles off shore from
Key Largo
. Walheim and his crewmates spent five days
saturation diving
from the Aquarius habitat as a
space analogue
for working and training under extreme environmental conditions. The mission was delayed due to
Hurricane Isadore
, forcing
National Undersea Research Center
managers to shorten it to an underwater duration of five days. Then, three days into their underwater mission, the crew members were told that
Tropical Storm Lili
was headed in their direction and to prepare for an early departure from Aquarius. However, Lili degenerated to the point where it was no longer a threat, so the crew was able to remain the full five days.
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During the
inauguration of Barack Obama
on January 20, 2009 in
Washington, D.C.
, Walheim marched in the parade carrying an American flag and wearing a prototype of NASA's next generation spacesuit.
STS-110
Walheim served as Mission Specialist 1 on
STS-110
. STS-110 delivered the
S0 truss segment
to the
International Space Station
(ISS). Walheim conducted two spacewalks to install the S0 truss and reconfigure
Canadarm2
for use on S0, spending 14 hours and 15 minutes outside the ISS. STS-110 lasted 10 days, 19 hours, 43 minutes and 38 seconds.
STS-122
Walheim served as Mission Specialist 2 and was the flight engineer for
STS-122
. STS-122, which was a 12-day, 18-hour flight, delivered the European-built
Columbus
module to the ISS the
European Space Agency
(ESA). Walheim conducted three spacewalks, totaling 22 hours and 8 minutes.
Walheim on the
flight deck
of
Space Shuttle
Atlantis
during the STS-135 mission.
STS-135
Walheim served as Mission Specialist 2 on the final flight of the Space Shuttle,
STS-135
, a thirteen-day mission to the International Space Station. The mission launched on July 8, 2011, and landed on July 21.
Rex Walheim retired from NASA August 2020.