Space Launch NowSuccess· Flight 4
STS-115
- Launched
- Sep 9, 2006 · 15:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- From
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center
- Destination
- International Space Station
- Landed
- Sep 21, 2006
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Joseph Richard "Joe" Tanner is an American instructor at the University of Colorado Boulder, mechanical engineer, a former naval officer and aviator, and a...
Spaceflights
4
Time in space
43days
Spacewalks
7
Spacewalking
45 h 29 m
in total
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STS-82 EVA 2
Feb 15, 1997
STS-82 EVA 4
Feb 17, 1997
STS-97 EVA 1
Dec 3, 2000
STS-97 EVA 2
Dec 5, 2000
STS-97 EVA 3
Dec 7, 2000
STS-115 EVA 1
Sep 12, 2006
STS-115 EVA 3
Sep 15, 2006
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Ken BowersoxNASA
Scott HorowitzNASA
Gregory HarbaughNASA
Mark C. LeeNASA
Steven SmithNASA
Steven HawleyNASASuccess· Flight 1
Joseph Richard "Joe" Tanner is an American instructor at the University of Colorado Boulder, mechanical engineer, a former naval officer and aviator, and a former NASA astronaut. He was born in Danville, Illinois. He is unusual among astronauts as he did not have a background in flight test nor did he earn any advanced academic degrees. Typically those who did not do military flight test have an M.D. or Ph.D., if not a master's, whereas Tanner's path to becoming an astronaut followed operational military flying and then into NASA for operational jet training before being selected into the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1992, following an unsuccessful application in 1987.
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