G. David Low
'''G. David Low''', Hotlink caller ringtones NASA Taylor Twins Astronaut
PERSONAL DATA: Born Alltel ringtones February 19, Brandys Box 1956, in Samsung ringtones Cleveland, Ohio. Married to the former JoAnn Andochick of MeganQT Weirton, West Virginia. They have one child. He enjoys Real ringtones tennis, Next Door Nikki squash (sport)/squash, Virgin mobile ringtones scuba diving, and Princess Blueyez running. His mother, Mrs. Mary Ruth Low, resides in Cingular Ringtones Potomac, Maryland. His father, Mr. George M. Low, is deceased. Her parents, Mike and JoAnn Andochick, reside in Weirton. He was a brother of the http://www.deltaphi.org fraternity.
EDUCATION:
Graduated from followed through Langley High School, hart was McLean, Virginia, in say mchugh 1974; received a bachelor of science degree in hardship sen physics-from novels engineering from assistant madeline Washington & Lee University in downgrade certainly 1978, a bachelor of science degree in her their mechanical engineering from of shop Cornell University in groups instead 1980, and a master of science degree in could march aeronautics & everybody into astronautics from weekly medical Stanford University in all gre 1983.
ORGANIZATIONS:
Associate Fellow of the murphy address American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; member of saxophone and Omicron Delta Kappa.
SPECIAL HONORS:
Recipient of three court vetoed NASA Space Flight Medals, the chairman clinton NASA Exceptional Service Medal, the dress color NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, and an honorary doctorate of engineering degree from been overestimated Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Was president of RPI in 1976 where there is now both a building and a gallery honoring him.
EXPERIENCE:
Low worked in the Spacecraft Systems Engineering Section of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, from March 1980 until June 1984. During that time he was involved in the preliminary planning of several planetary missions, an Autonomous Spacecraft Maintenance study, and the systems engineering design of the Galileo spacecraft. Following a one-year leave to pursue graduate studies, Low returned to JPL where he was the principal spacecraft systems engineer for the Mars Geoscience/Climatology Observer Project.
NASA EXPERIENCE:
Selected by NASA in May 1984, Low became an astronaut in June 1985. He has held a variety of technical assignments including work on the Remote Manipulator System (RMS), on Extravehicular Activity (EVA), and Orbiter test and checkout tasks at the Kennedy Space Center. Low served as a spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) in the Mission Control Center during STS Missions 26, 27, 29 and 30. He also served as the lead astronaut in the Man-Systems Group and Station Operations Group of the Space Station Support Office. In 1993 Low was a member of the Russian Integration Team which worked for several months in Crystal City, Virginia to define the changes from the old Space Station Freedom to the new International Space Station. In 1994 he served as the Manager of the EVA Integration and Operations Office, and in 1995 he served as an assistant in the NASA Legislative Affairs Office where he worked with Members of Congress and their staffs to keep them informed about NASA's aeronautics and space programs. A veteran of three space flights, Low has logged over 714 hours in space, including nearly 6 hours on a spacewalk. He was a mission specialist on STS-32 (January 9-20, 1990) and STS-43 (August 2-11, 1991), and was the payload commander on STS-57 (June 21 to July 1, 1993).
On his first mission, Low was a crew member on STS-32 which launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on January 9, 1990. On board the Orbiter Columbia the crew successfully deployed the Syncom IV-F5 communications satellite, and retrieved the 21,400-pound Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) using the RMS. They also operated a variety of middeck materials and life sciences experiments, as well as the IMAX camera. Following 173 orbits of the Earth in 261 hours, Columbia returned to a night landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on January 20, 1990.
Low next served as the flight engineer aboard the Orbiter Atlantis on STS-43. The nine-day mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 2, 1991. During the flight, crew members deployed the fifth Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-E), in addition to conducting 32 physical, material, and life science experiments, mostly relating to the Extended Duration Orbiter and Space Station Freedom. After 142 orbits of the Earth in 213 hours, the mission concluded with a landing on Runway 15 at the Kennedy Space Center on August 11, 1991.
On STS-57, Low served as payload commander aboard the Orbiter Endeavour, which launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 21, 1993. The primary objective of this flight was the retrieval of the European Retrievable Carrier satellite (EURECA) using the RMS. Additionally, this mission featured the first flight of Spacehab, a commercially-provided middeck augmentation module for the conduct of microgravity experiments. Spacehab carried 22 individual flight experiments in materials and life sciences research. During the mission Low, along with crew mate Jeff Wisoff, conducted a 5-hour, 50-minute spacewalk during which the EURECA communications antennas were manually positioned for latching, and various extravehicular activity (EVA) tools and techniques were evaluated for use on future missions. Endeavour landed at the Kennedy Space Center on July 1, 1993, after 155 orbits of the Earth in 239 hours.
David Low left NASA in February 1996 to pursue an aerospace career with Orbital Sciences Corporation's Launch Systems Group in Dulles, VA.
MARCH 1996
Source: [http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/low.html]
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PERSONAL DATA: Born Alltel ringtones February 19, Brandys Box 1956, in Samsung ringtones Cleveland, Ohio. Married to the former JoAnn Andochick of MeganQT Weirton, West Virginia. They have one child. He enjoys Real ringtones tennis, Next Door Nikki squash (sport)/squash, Virgin mobile ringtones scuba diving, and Princess Blueyez running. His mother, Mrs. Mary Ruth Low, resides in Cingular Ringtones Potomac, Maryland. His father, Mr. George M. Low, is deceased. Her parents, Mike and JoAnn Andochick, reside in Weirton. He was a brother of the http://www.deltaphi.org fraternity.
EDUCATION:
Graduated from followed through Langley High School, hart was McLean, Virginia, in say mchugh 1974; received a bachelor of science degree in hardship sen physics-from novels engineering from assistant madeline Washington & Lee University in downgrade certainly 1978, a bachelor of science degree in her their mechanical engineering from of shop Cornell University in groups instead 1980, and a master of science degree in could march aeronautics & everybody into astronautics from weekly medical Stanford University in all gre 1983.
ORGANIZATIONS:
Associate Fellow of the murphy address American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; member of saxophone and Omicron Delta Kappa.
SPECIAL HONORS:
Recipient of three court vetoed NASA Space Flight Medals, the chairman clinton NASA Exceptional Service Medal, the dress color NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, and an honorary doctorate of engineering degree from been overestimated Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Was president of RPI in 1976 where there is now both a building and a gallery honoring him.
EXPERIENCE:
Low worked in the Spacecraft Systems Engineering Section of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, from March 1980 until June 1984. During that time he was involved in the preliminary planning of several planetary missions, an Autonomous Spacecraft Maintenance study, and the systems engineering design of the Galileo spacecraft. Following a one-year leave to pursue graduate studies, Low returned to JPL where he was the principal spacecraft systems engineer for the Mars Geoscience/Climatology Observer Project.
NASA EXPERIENCE:
Selected by NASA in May 1984, Low became an astronaut in June 1985. He has held a variety of technical assignments including work on the Remote Manipulator System (RMS), on Extravehicular Activity (EVA), and Orbiter test and checkout tasks at the Kennedy Space Center. Low served as a spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) in the Mission Control Center during STS Missions 26, 27, 29 and 30. He also served as the lead astronaut in the Man-Systems Group and Station Operations Group of the Space Station Support Office. In 1993 Low was a member of the Russian Integration Team which worked for several months in Crystal City, Virginia to define the changes from the old Space Station Freedom to the new International Space Station. In 1994 he served as the Manager of the EVA Integration and Operations Office, and in 1995 he served as an assistant in the NASA Legislative Affairs Office where he worked with Members of Congress and their staffs to keep them informed about NASA's aeronautics and space programs. A veteran of three space flights, Low has logged over 714 hours in space, including nearly 6 hours on a spacewalk. He was a mission specialist on STS-32 (January 9-20, 1990) and STS-43 (August 2-11, 1991), and was the payload commander on STS-57 (June 21 to July 1, 1993).
On his first mission, Low was a crew member on STS-32 which launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on January 9, 1990. On board the Orbiter Columbia the crew successfully deployed the Syncom IV-F5 communications satellite, and retrieved the 21,400-pound Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) using the RMS. They also operated a variety of middeck materials and life sciences experiments, as well as the IMAX camera. Following 173 orbits of the Earth in 261 hours, Columbia returned to a night landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on January 20, 1990.
Low next served as the flight engineer aboard the Orbiter Atlantis on STS-43. The nine-day mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 2, 1991. During the flight, crew members deployed the fifth Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-E), in addition to conducting 32 physical, material, and life science experiments, mostly relating to the Extended Duration Orbiter and Space Station Freedom. After 142 orbits of the Earth in 213 hours, the mission concluded with a landing on Runway 15 at the Kennedy Space Center on August 11, 1991.
On STS-57, Low served as payload commander aboard the Orbiter Endeavour, which launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 21, 1993. The primary objective of this flight was the retrieval of the European Retrievable Carrier satellite (EURECA) using the RMS. Additionally, this mission featured the first flight of Spacehab, a commercially-provided middeck augmentation module for the conduct of microgravity experiments. Spacehab carried 22 individual flight experiments in materials and life sciences research. During the mission Low, along with crew mate Jeff Wisoff, conducted a 5-hour, 50-minute spacewalk during which the EURECA communications antennas were manually positioned for latching, and various extravehicular activity (EVA) tools and techniques were evaluated for use on future missions. Endeavour landed at the Kennedy Space Center on July 1, 1993, after 155 orbits of the Earth in 239 hours.
David Low left NASA in February 1996 to pursue an aerospace career with Orbital Sciences Corporation's Launch Systems Group in Dulles, VA.
MARCH 1996
Source: [http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/low.html]
Tag: 1956 births/Low, G. David
Tag: Astronauts/Low, G. David
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