DR Pettit - 20.04.1955

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Donald Roy Pettit został wyselekcjonowany w ramach NASA grupa 16 (1996) w wieku 41. lat.

Jest 426. człowiekiem w kosmosie.
Jego 3 loty kosmiczne trwały łącznie 369d 16m 42m 35s.
Wykonał 2 spacery kosmiczne, które trwały w sumie 13d 17m.

1984 w wieku 29 lat nie został przyjęty do NASA grupa 10 (znalazł się wśród 128 finalistów).
40 lat później zostanie najstarszym astronautą NASA na orbicie.

1987 znalazł się wśród 117 finalistów do NASA grupa 12.

1994 był jednym ze 122 finalistów do NASA grupa 15.

Przygotowuje się do 4. lotu w ramach misji Sojuz MS-26.
Jego półroczny lot kosmiczny będzie oznaczać, że zostanie 4. Amerykaninem z nalotem powyżej 500. dni oraz najstarszym człowiekiem, który uda się w kosmos na pokładzie Sojuza.

Z Barratem należy do dwóch najstarszych aktywnych astronautów NASA.
70. urodziny powinien spędzić już na Ziemi.

1983 uzyskał stopień doktora (inżynieria chemiczna) na Uniwersytecie w Arizonie.

1984-1996 był zatrudniony jako pracownik naukowy w Los Alamos National Laboratory w Nowym Meksyku.
Zajmował się dynamiką płynów i materiałów w warunkach nieważkości, fizyką wybuchów i badaniami spektroskopowymi.
Jednym z efektów jego pracy było stworzenie kubka, który pozwala pić kawę w stanie nieważkości.

24.11.2002 wystartował jako specjalista misji w składzie załogi STS-113 Endeavour. Został na orbicie w składzie 6 Ekspedycji.

04. 2003 członkowie 6. Ekspedycji mieli pierwotnie powrócić na Ziemię na pokładzie misji  STS-115.

04.05.2003 dr Pettit wraz z pozostałymi członkami 6. Ekspedycji powrócił na Ziemię w trybie balistycznym na pokładzie Sojuza TMA-1.
https://www.russianspaceweb.com/iss_soyuztma1.html

27.03.2024 w komunikacie prasowym NASA 24-048 oficjalnie potwierdzono włączenie Donalda Pettita do załogi Ekspedycji 71/72.

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/donald-r-pettit/

http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/pettit_donald.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/p/pettit.html
https://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/p/pettit-d.php

https://mek.kosmo.cz/bio/usa/00426.htm
https://www.kozmo-data.sk/kozmonauti/pettit-donald-roy.html
https://www.astronaut.ru/index/in_pers/13_047.htm
https://www.april12.eu/usaastron/pettit426ru.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Pettit
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Pettit

https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/ISS/PettitDR/PettitDR_8-17-15.htm
https://appel.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/50i-interview-pettit.pdf

https://www.quora.com/Don-Pettit-said-that-NASA-has-lost-the-technology-to-leave-Lower-Earth-Orbit-LEO-which-is-why-we-have-not-gone-back-to-the-Moon-If-this-is-the-case-how-are-we-able-to-send-out-satellites-probes-past-LEO-not-manned

Fueled By Death Cast Ep. 106 - DONALD PETTIT
https://www.deathwishcoffee.com/pages/fbdc-ep-106-donald-pettit

Alum Donald R. Pettit: NASA Astronaut


https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1781737200771580267
https://x.com/spacemen1969/status/1781444664358473850

No astronaut can resist the urge to take a selfie during a space walk. I took this on my first @Space_Station EVA on January 15, 2003. At the time, EVA #photography was film-based, which gives a different quality to the now digital EVA imagery.

https://x.com/astro_Pettit/status/1678497490302128134

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A Master Class in Space Photography with NASA Astronaut Donald Pettit
BY MIA TRAM  JULY 17, 2014 4:00 AM EDT


Star trail compositeDonald Pettit—NASA

(...) MT: TIME actually just got to do a video-chat with Reid Wiseman, Steve Swanson and Alexander Gerst on the ISS last week. Have they come to you and asked for any advice on how to photograph from the Space Station?

DP: I’ve been corresponding with them via email to help them set up some photo situations. One of my ground jobs right now is to write a technical report on photography in space. My working title is Astronauts’ Guide to Photography in Space. It’s written for astronauts, so it basically assumes that if I’m talking about going into the PMA and doing something that you know what the PMA is. It’ll probably be 50 pages. It doesn’t say anything about how to use the cameras, it assumes that you know how to use our Nikon D3S’s and D4’s. It just tells you how you should be setting the camera up for different situations. (...)
https://time.com/3810759/donald-pettit-space-photography/

From Above - Astronaut Photography with Don Pettit


This is what your photo stream looks like when you’re a NASA astronaut
By Liesl Bradner Nov. 18, 2016 6 AM PT


Vista point: Cameras are set to fire in the cupola window. (Donald R. Pettit )
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-cm-spaceborne-20161120-htmlstory.html

NASA Astronaut Don Pettit to Conduct Science During Fourth Mission
The headshot image of Abbey A. Donaldson Abbey A. Donaldson
MAR 27, 2024

(...) During his fourth mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Don Pettit will serve as a flight engineer and member of the Expedition 71/72 crew. After blasting off to space, Pettit will conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare crew for future space missions. (...)

NASA selected Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A veteran of three spaceflights, he made integral advancements in technology and demonstrations for human exploration. He served as a science officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, operated the robotic arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and served as a flight engineer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012.
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-astronaut-don-pettit-to-conduct-science-during-fourth-mission/
https://x.com/NASA_Johnson/status/1773094929163575526
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1773391508944630165

Astronaut @Astro_Pettit has been assigned to his fourth flight to the @Space_Station, currently set for September 2024: https://go.nasa.gov/4ahsGfR
On previous flights, Pettit was celebrated for his space photography and invention of a zero g coffee cup.

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Ciekawe czy znowu spotka się na ISS z najbardziej doświadczoną amerykańską astronautką ?

Don Pettit, Fourth Most Experienced US Astronaut, Turns 60 Today
by Ben Evans April 20, 2015


Don Pettit holds a still camera as he looks through the nadir window in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS). The islands of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura of the Canary Island chain in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco are visible. Photo Credit: NASA

Astronaut Don Pettit, a veteran of more than a year in orbit, the fourth most experienced U.S. spacefarer of all time, and the oldest American ever to participate in a long-duration mission to the International Space Station (ISS), turns 60 today (Monday, 20 April). A chemical engineer by training and a former scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M., Pettit unsuccessfully applied three times to enter NASA’s astronaut corps, before finally being accepted as a Mission Specialist candidate in April 1996. Since then, he has flown two lengthy expeditions to the ISS—the first of which came about by serendipity, following the grounding of a member of the prime crew—and a 16-day shuttle mission, which has left him with almost 370 days of cumulative time in space and over 13 hours of spacewalking expertise in two EVAs. (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2015/04/20/don-pettit-fourth-most-experienced-u-s-astronaut-turns-60-today/

https://twitter.com/astro_Pettit/status/1781770154763772328

In the weightlessness on @Space_Station I placed a sphere of water with an air bubble on a speaker cone, then drove it with acoustical waves from the speaker.
This created a series of standing nodes and anti-nodes that responded to the frequency and amplitude. A zero gravity Lava Lamp!
Will post what happens when I drove this with some of my favorite rock and roll! From Expedition 31, 2012.

https://twitter.com/astro_Pettit/status/1776645820374302780

Annular solar #eclipse from @Space_Station taken on May 20, 2012 when I was East of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. The deep umbra of the Moon's shadow makes a stark contrast to the surrounding white clouds.