ChL Williams - 23.10.1983

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Christopher Leigh Williams został wyselekcjonowany w ramach NASA grupa 23 (2021).
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=140.msg171854#msg171854

Został jako pierwszy wybrany ze swojej grupy do lotu kosmicznego.

Zostanie 442. człowiekiem w kosmosie.

27.11.2025-[27.11.2025] Sojuz MS-28 ISS-74S Krieczet

23.10.1983 urodził się w Nowym Jorku.

2001 ukończył Montgomery Blair High School w Silver Spring w stanie Maryland.

2005 ukończył studia na Uniwersytecie Stanforda, uzyskując tytuł licencjata z fizyki.

2012 ukończył Massachusetts Institute of Technology i uzyskał stopień doktora z astrofizyki.

Kształcił się jako specjalista medyczny w dziedzinie biofizyki na Uniwersytecie Harvarda.
 
W szkole średniej i na studiach pracował w US Naval Research Laboratory w Waszyngtonie, badając supernowe za pomocą radioteleskopu Very Large Array.

Służył jako ochotnik jako technik ratownictwa medycznego i strażak.

Pracując nad rozprawą doktorską brał udział w opracowaniu i budowie kompleksu radioteleskopów niskiej częstotliwości Murchison Widefield Array, zlokalizowanego w Australii Zachodniej, którego zadaniem było badanie okresu rejonizacji Wszechświata.

Zanim dołączył do korpusu astronautów, był adiunktem w Harvard Medical School w Bostonie w stanie Massachusetts, pracował na oddziale radioterapii w Brigham and Women's Hospital w Bostonie oraz w Instytucie Badań nad Rakiem Dana-Farber, gdzie pracował jako główny specjalista radioterapii adaptacyjnej.
 
Posiada licencję pilota prywatnego.

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/nasa-astronaut-christopher-l-williams/

http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/williams_christopher.htm
https://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/w/williams-c-l.php

https://www.kozmo-data.sk/kozmonauti/williams-christopher-leigh.html 0.10.1983
https://www.astronaut.ru/index/in_pers4/13_2250.htm в октябре 1983

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Williams_(astronaut)

https://roundupreads.jsc.nasa.gov/roundup/2332

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/albums/72177720314320496/

Christopher L. Williams, PhD: Astronaut in training

Congrats @Astro_ChrisW Chris L. Williams PhD '12, one of 12 chosen as NASA's newest astronauts!

Born in New York City, @Astro_ChrisW Williams considers Potomac, Maryland, to be his hometown. A private pilot and Eagle Scout, Williams is a board-certified medical physicist and also holds a doctorate in physics from MIT. https://go.nasa.gov/49YJJmf

https://twitter.com/MIT_alumni/status/1765479316639346746

Video of @roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, Alexey Zubritsky and @NASA_Astronauts Christopher Williams, undergoing emergency water landing survival training under extreme weather conditions at Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre.
#Astronauts #Cosmonauts #Space #NASA

https://twitter.com/TheSpacePirateX/status/1803838508806619373

Chris Williams @Astro_ChrisW 9:34 PM · May 23, 2022
Last day training with the VT-10 Wildcats in Pensacola FL!  A great two months of training with incredible instructors where we learned to fly the T-6 and work as part of a crew.

https://twitter.com/Astro_ChrisW/status/1528821722073518082

NASA's Johnson Space Center @NASA_Johnson 6:58 PM · Dec 6, 2021
Introducing the 2021 class of NASA Astronaut candidates. They'll begin training here in Houston in January.

NASA's Johnson Space Center @NASA_Johnson
Christopher Williams is a physicist from Potomac, Maryland.

https://twitter.com/NASA_Johnson/status/1467916409342623746

Christopher Williams

Williams knew going into the training program that he would learn things in which he had no prior background.

“When you're flying in one of the T38 jets you're having to do, you know, back-of-the-envelope math estimating things while operating in a dynamic environment,” he recalls. “Other things, like doing an underwater run in the spacesuit, to finding alternatives when conjugating Russian verbs … learning how to approach problems and to solve them came from my time at MIT. Going through the physics grad program there made me much stronger at taking new topics and just sort of digesting them, figuring to how to break them down and solve them.”   

He did end up working with many MIT alumni. “Lots of MIT people have rotated through, so I've had lots of good conversations with Kate Rubins and a bunch of folks that passed through AeroAstro [the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics].”

Williams grew up in Potomac, Maryland, dreaming of being an astronaut. A private pilot and Eagle Scout, Williams spent much of his high school and Stanford University years at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, studying supernovae using the Very Large Array radio telescope, and researching supernovae at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.   

At MIT, he pursued his doctorate in physics with a focus on astrophysics. When he wasn’t working as a campus emergency medical technician and volunteer firefighter, Williams and his advisor, Jackie Hewitt, built the Murchison Widefield Array, a low-frequency radio telescope array in Western Australia designed to study the epoch of reionization of the early universe.

After graduation, he joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School, and was a medical physicist in the Radiation Oncology Department at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. As the lead physicist for the institute’s MRI-guided adaptive radiation therapy program, Williams focused on developing image guidance techniques for cancer treatments. 

He will be supporting the ongoing missions until it’s his turn to head to space. In the meantime, he looks forward to using his background in medicine to research how the human body is affected by space radiation and being in orbit.

“It’s strange, because as a scientist you know you're kind of in a different role. There are physics experiments on the space station, and tons of biology and chemistry experiments. It's actually really fun because I get to stretch different parts of my brain that I haven't had to before.”

“We're really representing all of NASA, all of America all over the world,” he says. “That's a huge responsibility on us. I really want to make everybody proud.”

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-alumni-graduate-nasa-astronaut-training

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27.11.2025 zostanie 19. Afroamerykaninem na orbicie i po 8. miesiącach jego lot okazać powinien się dłuższy od Jeanette Jo Epps.
https://physics.mit.edu/news/bound-for-the-stars-chris-williams-phd-12-set-for-iss-launch-on-november-27-2025/

NASA Has Enlisted 20 Black Astronauts Since Inception — Graduates Andre Douglas And Christopher Williams Are The Latest To Join That Group
Mar 7, 2024 Updated mar 7, 2024


Photo Credit: NASA / James Blair

These new astronauts are “preparing for takeoff” in NASA’s Astronaut Office.

On March 5, 2024, NASA held a graduation ceremony at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, as 10 new graduates, “The Flies,” crossed the stage after completing two years of training, per a news release. (...)

Williams, who hails from Potomac, MD, shared the same childhood dream as Douglas. However, his higher education background began in physics. What’s more, he became a board-certified medical physicist after completing his residency at Harvard Medical School. He later went on to join its faculty as a clinical physicist and researcher.

However, Williams’ first real glimpse into what it looked like to be a professional scientist was in high school when he was paired with a mentor who worked at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C.

“Getting the chance to do that in high school and having a scientist that was willing to take the time to mentor a high schooler and show them what it could be like to be a scientist, that certainly changed my life,” Williams expressed to AFROTECH™.

According to a Scripps News report, as of January 2023, NASA had enlisted 360 astronauts since inception. The outlet also shared that 18 of them have been Black. As Douglas and Williams have joined the underrepresented group, they aim to be proof and a source of inspiration for young, aspiring Black astronauts that it’s possible. (...)
https://afrotech.com/nasa-astronauts-andre-douglas-christopher-williams