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Personal: Male, Married, Three children. Born in Syracuse, New Jersey, USA. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: NASA Group 17 - 1998. Active Entered space service: 4 June 1998. Number of Flights: 1.00. Total Time: 13.84 days. Number of EVAs: 2.00. Total EVA Time: 0.57 days.
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Swanson Spaceflight Log
Swanson Chronology 19 July 1985 - NASA Astronaut Training Group 17 selected.. The group was selected to provide pilot, engineer, and scientist astronauts for space shuttle flights.. Qualifications: Pilots: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics. Advanced degree desirable. At least 1,000 flight-hours of pilot-in-command time. Flight test experience desirable. Excellent health. Vision minimum 20/50 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20 vision; maximum sitting blood pressure 140/90. Height between 163 and 193 cm. Mission Specialists: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics and minimum three years of related experience or an advanced degree. Vision minimum 20/150 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20. Maximum sitting blood pressure of 140/90. Height between 150 and 193 cm.. Of 25 Americans, eight pilots and 17 mission specialists. 8 June 2007 - STS-117. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. The shuttle delivered the S3 and S4 truss segments to the starboard side of the International Space Station. The crew made three spacewalks to install these truss segments, conduct other station reconfiguration and installation work, deploy the solar arrays and prepare them for operation. A fourth spacewalk was added to repair loose re-entry insulation on the shuttle and get-ahead installation work on the outside of the station. The shuttle delivered NASA long-term ISS crew member Clayton Anderson to the station; and returned Suni Williams to earth. At the conclusion of this mission the station finally achieved its full-power, dual-boom configuration first conceived for Space Station Freedom in the 1980's. 8 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #01. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. The Space Shuttle Atlantis rocketed into a Florida twilight sky on time at 6:38 p.m. CDT today, kicking off the first of four shuttle missions scheduled this year. Atlantis' climb to orbit was flawless, carrying a seven-member crew. Aboard Atlantis ...more... 9 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #02. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. The astronauts on board Space Shuttle Atlantis got their first on-orbit wakeup call this morning on their way to a Sunday afternoon rendezvous to deliver a new crewmember and a new set of solar arrays to the International Space Station. “Big Boy Toys” by Aaron Tippin, sounded on board the orbiter at 9:10 a.m. CDT, played ...more... 9 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #03. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. During its first full day in orbit, the STS-117 crew inspected Space Shuttle Atlantis’ heat shield and prepared for tomorrow’s docking with the International Space Station scheduled for 2:38 p.m. CDT. Pilot Lee Archambault and Mission Specialists Patrick Forrester and Steven Swanson ...more... 11 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #06. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. A spacewalk to install and activate a new set of solar array wings highlights the first full day of docked operations of space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station. Most of the crewmembers got an 8:08 a.m. CDT wakeup call with the song “It Probably ...more... 12 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #09. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. The International Space Station today spread its wings again with the activation of a new pair of solar arrays that will generate enough power to supply about eight homes. The extra power sets the stage for addition of European and Japanese laboratories ...more... 12 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #08. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. The International Space Station’s new solar array wings are spreading today while the 10 astronauts and cosmonauts get ready for the second spacewalk during this flight of space shuttle Atlantis. The day began at 8:08 a.m. with the wakeup song “What a Wonderful World” by Louis ...more... 13 June 2007 - EVA STS-117-2. Assignment: EVA Crew. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. The crew removed all of the launch locks on the Solar Alpha Rotary Joint in place. The spacewalkers had planned to remove the joint’s launch restraints as well, but problems with the wiring of a drive-lock assembly installed on the previous spacewalk led to that task being deferred to the next EVA. 13 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #11. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. Just a few launch restraint bolts stand between the International Space Station’s new solar arrays and rotation, following a seven hour and 16 minute spacewalk by Mission Specialists Patrick Forrester and Steve Swanson. Meanwhile, managers approved a repair task for a damaged thermal blanket to be carried ...more... 13 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #10. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. A pair of spacewalking astronauts is getting ready for a 6½-hour excursion this afternoon to help retract an old solar array wing and get two new ones ready to go to work. Mission Specialists Patrick Forrester and Steven Swanson, who camped out in the ...more... 14 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #12. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. Solar array retraction and spacewalk preparation are the focus of the crews on board space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station today. At 7:39 a.m. CDT Mission Control in Houston played the wakeup song “Indescribable” ...more... 15 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #15. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. The situation aboard space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station improved greatly today following repair of a protruding thermal blanket, restoring power to problematic Russian navigation computers, and completing retraction of a finicky solar array. Mission Specialists Jim Reilly and Danny Olivas worked outside the station for 7 ...more... 15 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #14. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. Astronauts on space shuttle Atlantis are only hours from the week’s third spacewalk out of the International Space Station, a 6½-hour excursion to repair a thermal blanket on the orbiter and assist in folding up a solar array on the station. The crew’s wakeup call came at 7:41 a.m. CDT with the song “Radar Love” by Golden ...more... 16 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #16. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. A new spaceflight endurance record was set this morning as 10 astronauts and cosmonauts slept on the docked space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station. At 12:47 a.m. CDT, Astronaut Suni Williams’ time in space since her launch last ...more... 16 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #17. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. In a continuing improvement of the onboard Russian computer system, all six channels are now operating in the two Russian command-and-control and the guidance-and-navigation computers that stopped operating three days ago. During a news briefing from the Johnson Space Center Saturday afternoon, International ...more... 17 June 2007 - EVA STS-117-4. Assignment: EVA Crew. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. The crew moved a video camera from the Quest module to the S3 truss. They verified the connections on the Solar Alpha Rotary Joint and removed its launch restraints. They then removed hardware along the S3 truss, clearing it for use by the tracked Mobile Base System. They then installed a computer network cable on the Unity node; opened the hydrogen vent valve on the Destiny laboratory installed on the previous EVA; and tethered two orbital debris shield panels on the station’s service module. 17 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #19. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. Astronauts Patrick Forrester and Steve Swanson completed the fourth and final spacewalk of Atlantis’ mission at 5:54 p.m. CDT, wrapping up all the tasks planned for the mission and finishing some jobs that will reduce the workload for future spacewalkers. The spacewalk was the 87th in support of station assembly and maintenance, the 59th ...more... 17 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #18. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. For the fourth time in less than a week, the astronauts on Space Shuttle Atlantis are about to venture outside their spacecraft to press ahead with assembly of the International Space Station. The crew’s wakeup call came at 6:38 a.m. CDT with the theme song from “Band of Brothers,” ...more... 19 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #22. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. The astronauts on space shuttle Atlantis woke up this morning with the hatch to the International Space Station closed and only hours left before undocking for the two-day trip back to Earth. Today’s wakeup call came at 5:38 a.m. CDT with “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day” by Chicago, ...more... 20 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #25. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. Space shuttle Atlantis’ astronauts spent – weather permitting – their last full day on orbit today getting their ship ready to return home tomorrow with two landing opportunities available at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at 12:55 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Commander Rick Sturckow, Pilot Lee Archambault, and Mission Specialist and Flight ...more... 20 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #24. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. Seven astronauts on space shuttle Atlantis are preparing themselves and their orbiter for a planned Thursday landing to wrap up the year’s first International Space Station assembly mission. The astronauts’ wakeup call came at 5:08 a.m. with “If I Had $1000000” by Barenaked ...more... 22 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #30. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. Space shuttle Atlantis returned home safely to the Mojave Desert following a 14-day, 5.8-million-mile mission to the International Space Station. It was the 51st shuttle mission to end with a landing at the Edwards Air Force Base ...more... Bibliography and Further Reading
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