Image by WikiImages on Pixabay · Pixabay License
Key facts
- Born
- Garrett Erin Reisman , ( 1968-02-10 ) February 10, 1968 (age 58) , Morristown, New Jersey , U.S.
- Education
- University of Pennsylvania ( BS ), California Institute of Technology ( MS , PhD )
- Time in space
- 107d 3h 15m
- Selection
- NASA Group 17 (1998)
- Total eva time
- 21h 21m
- Missions
- STS-123 / 124 ( Expedition 16 / 17 ), STS-132
- Fields
- Mechanical engineering
- Thesis
- Dynamics, Acoustics and Control of Cloud Cavitation on Hydrofoils (1997)
- Doctoral advisor
- Christopher Brennen
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- NASA Astronaut Group 17
- Given name
- Garrett
- Family name
- Reisman
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Morristown
- Occupation
- entrepreneur
- Employer
- NASA
- Official website
- garrettreisman.com
- Image
- Garrettreismanv2.jpg
- Significant event
- extra-vehicular activity
Show 8 more facts
- Commons category
- Garrett Reisman
- date of birth
- 1968-02-10
- time in space
- 154275
- name in native language
- Garrett Erin Reisman
- social media followers
- 33470
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- member of the crew of
- STS-123
- P450
- STS-124
via Wikidata · CC0
~12 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Garrett Erin Reisman (/ˈriːsmən/; born February 10, 1968) is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He was a backup crew member for Expedition 15 and joined Expedition 16 aboard the International Space Station for a short time before becoming a member of Expedition 17. He returned to Earth on June 14, 2008 on board STS-124 on Space Shuttle Discovery. He was a member of the STS-132 mission that traveled to the International Space Station aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis from May 14 to 26, 2010. He is a consultant at SpaceX and a Professor of Astronautics Practice at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Garrett Reisman” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.