PJK 'Jeff' Wisoff - 16.08.1958

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Peter Jeffrey Kelsay 'Jeff' Wisoff został wyselekcjonowany w ramach NASA grupa 13 (1990).

Jest 294. człowiekiem w kosmosie.

Odbył 4 loty kosmiczne, które trwały łącznie 44d 08h 09m 06s:
21.06.1993-01.07.1993 STS-57 Endeavour/F-4 009:23:44:55
30.09.1994-11.10.1994 STS-68 Endeavour/F-7 011:05:46:08
12.01.1997-22.01.1997 STS-81 Atlantis/F-18 010:04:55:21
11.10.2000-24.10.2000 STS-92 Discovery/F-28 ISS-3A 012:21:42:42

Wykonał 3 spacery kosmiczne, które trwały w sumie 19h 53m.

1976 ukończył Norfolk Academy.

1980 ukończył z wyróznieniem University of Virginia, uzyskując tytuł licencjata z fizyki.

1980 rozpoczął w trakcie studiów prace nad rozwojem laserów krótkofalowych na Stanford University jako stypendysta National Science Foundation.

1982 ukończył Stanford University, uzyskując tytuł magistra nauk ścisłych (fizyka stosowana).

1986 uzyskał stopień doktora (fizyka stosowana) na Stanford University.

1986 dołączył do Electrical and Computer Engineering Department na Rice University w Houston jako profesor nadzwyczajny, gdzie kontynuował prace nad rozwojem nowych próżniowych źródeł promieniowania ultrafioletowego i laserów o wysokiej intensywności.

Brał udział we współpracy z Texas Medical Centers w opracowaniu zastosowania laserów do regeneracji uszkodzonej tkanki nerwowej.

1987 aplikował do NASA grupa 12 jako specjalista misji.
Był jednym ze 117 finalistów.
Pod koniec 03.1987 przeszedł badania lekarskie i rozmowę kwalifikacyjną w Johnson Space Center (jako członek 4. grupy kandydatów), ale nie został wybrany.

01.1990 został przyjęty do Korpusu Astronautów NASA jako specjalista misji.

07.1991 po ukończeniu podstawowego szkolenia uzyskał kwalifikacje specjalisty misji i został przydzielony do Biura Astronautów NASA.

Zajmował różne stanowiska, w tym CAPCOM w Mission Control.

Zajmował się walidację oprogramowania w SAIL (Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory).

Oceniał sprzęt i techniki wykorzystywane podczas aktywności EVA.

Został kierownikiem Payloads and Habitability Branch w Astronaut Office.

Misja STS-57 Endeavour po raz pierwszy wyniosła komercyjne laboratorium ciśnieniowego SPACEHAB.
Podwoiło ono ciśnieniową objętość roboczą dostępną dla astronautów.
Przeprowadzono 22 eksperymenty w zakresie materiałów i nauk biologicznych oraz recyklingu ścieków ze stacji kosmicznej.

Załoga przechwyciła krążącego na orbicie satelitę naukowego EURECA (European Retrievable Carrier) wyniesionego podczas misji STS-46 Atlantis.

Kontrolerzy naziemni EURECA nie byli w stanie złożyć anten statku w celu jego przechowywania.

25.06.1993 astronauci Low i Wisoff spędzili pierwszą część  EVA na ręcznym składaniem tej anteny.

Misja STS-68 Endeavour wyniosła po raz drugi w 1994 SRL-2 (Space Radar Laboratory).
Wcześniej poleciał w STS-59 Endeavour
Lot z tym samym podstawowym ładunkiem w tym samym roku pozwolił naukowcom zbadać obszary Ziemi w różnych porach roku.

Wśród innych ładunków znalazło się pięć pojemników eksperymentalnych GAS, w tym dwa od  U.S. Postal Service, w których umieszczono 500 000 znaczków okolicznościowych upamiętniających 25. rocznicę misji Apollo 11.

STS-81 Atlantis była piątą misją wahadłowca kosmicznego, który zadokował do rosyjskiej stacji kosmicznej Mir.

15.01.1997 odbyła się oficjalnie wymiana astronautów.
na stacji Mir pozostał Jerry Michael Linenger, a na Ziemię powrócił John Elmer Blaha.

09.06.1997 został przydzielony do załogi STS-92 Discovery jako Specjalista Misji nr 3.

01.1999 poślubił Tamarę Elizabeth Jernigan.

Misja STS-92 Discovery była piątym lotem wahadłowca kosmicznego do ISS.

Ponieważ była to ostatnia misja wahadłowca kosmicznego na ISS przed przybyciem Ekspedycji 1, astronauci spędzili większość czasu na pokładzie ISS, instalując sprzęt i zaopatrzenie niezbędne do przygotowania się do nadchodzącego przybycia załogi.
Ukończyli również połączenia z zespołem kratownicy Z1 ISS i przetestowali cztery żyroskopy orientacyjne ISS.

09.2001 opuścił NASA.

Później rozpoczął pracę w Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.

Dr Wisoff jest autorem licznych artykułów na konferencjach technicznych i w czasopismach z zakresu laserów i ich zastosowań.

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/wisoff_peter.pdf

http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/wisoff_peter.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/w/wisoff.html
https://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/w/wisoff-p.php

https://mek.kosmo.cz/bio/usa/00294.htm
https://www.kozmo-data.sk/kozmonauti/wisoff-peter-jeffrey-kelsay.html
https://www.astronaut.ru/index/in_pers/13_022.htm
https://www.april12.eu/usaastron/wisoff294ru.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wisoff

Stephane SEBILE @spacemen1969 12:03 AM · Aug 16, 2025
16 août
Joyeux anniversaire (67) à Jeff K. Wisoff 🎂🎂🎂
(4 vols : STS-57 / 68 / 81 / 92 soit 44 jours 08 heures 07 minutes dans l'espace dont 19h53 dans le vide spatial en 3 EVA)

https://twitter.com/spacemen1969/status/1956476746720776585
2023 https://x.com/spacemen1969/status/1691692514619875538

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Astronauta zwrócił koszulkę szkolnej maskotki, na której uczniowie podpisali się, a później zrobili to astronauci lotu STS-68 Endeavour.

ASTRONAUT RETURNS SCHOOL'S SHIRT FROM SPACE
DATE: Friday, December 2, 1994 SOURCE: BY GARY EDWARDS, CORRESPONDENT

Astronaut Jeff Wisoff spent about 45 minutes talking to an assembly at Pembroke Elementary School last week. That's roughly half the time it takes him to circle the Earth in a space shuttle.

Wisoff returned a school mascot T-shirt that the students had signed for him to take on an October space flight. The school mascot, Mustang, could be a bit tired. After all, he traveled 4.7 million miles in 11 days. He and the crew of the space Shuttle Endeavor orbited the Earth 183 times at 25 times the speed of sound.

Wisoff gathered his high-flying colleagues' signatures on the shirt and presented it to the students during the Nov. 23 assembly in the school gym. Wisoff's niece, Whitney Napolitano, 6, is a student there.

Jason Bach was impressed with Wisoff's talk and slide show. It even changed his career path, however temporarily.

``I want to be an astronaut, too,'' said Jason, 10, a fifth-grader. ``Or maybe a policeman.''

After Wisoff's presentation, Jason led the his fifth-grade class in singing the Air Force song in honor of Wisoff's previous service in the Air Force. Other grades sang the themes of the other branches of the service.

Wisoff, 36, was born in Norfolk and graduated from Norfolk Academy in 1976. He became Dr. Wisoff in 1986, when he received a doctorate in applied physics from Stanford University. He taught physics at Rice University in Houston before becoming an astronaut in July 1991.

``There are two types of astronauts now: the miltary pilots and the civilians who perform the scientific work,'' said Wisoff.

The original seven astronauts were military personnel.

``We have civilians now because the shuttle is large enough to accommodate bigger payloads and there's more work for engineers, scientists and physicians,'' Wisoff said.

He told the 679 Pembroke students what it's like to orbit the Earth in a space craft.

``It's like a camping trip with your best friends. We sleep in sleeping bags and eat dehydrated foods, like the kind you'd eat on a camping trip,'' Wisoff said. ``We take sponge baths.''

The latter statement was applauded by several boys in the assembly.

The slides showed views of the entire planet. The October mission was undertaken to study the Earth's environment. Other slides showed the Endeavor crew going about their work routine and daily living in outer space.

``The assembly had a very patriotic tone, with the military band and the songs,'' Principal Nancy Rosenblatt said. ``And Dr. Wisoff's talk and show were well-received.''

Astronaut Jeff Wisoff said of orbiting the Earth in a space craft:

``It's like a camping trip with your best friends.''

Sitting among the 679 Pembroke Elementary students were the parents of astronaut Jeff Wisoff, Pat and Karl Wisoff of Norfolk. The astronaut returned a T-shirt he took into space with him.

by CNB

https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/vp941202/12010196.htm

Astronauts End Space Flight Careers for Earth-bound Pursuits
by SpaceRef November 1, 2001

(...) Wisoff was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1990. He served on four missions, STS-57 in 1993, STS-68 in 1994, STS-81 to Mir in 1997, and STS-92 in 2000. Wisoff helped assemble the U.S. station with two spacewalks
during STS-92 to attach and test ISS exterior equipment. Wisoff joins the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in northern California. (...)
https://spacenews.com/astronauts-end-space-flight-careers-for-earth-bound-pursuits/
https://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0111/04astroretire/

Kariera astronauty po opuszczeniu NASA.

Jeff Wisoff

Peter J. K. (Jeff) Wisoff is the principal associate director of NIF and Photon Science at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). He is responsible for ensuring the safe operation of NIF as a world-class user facility in support of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)’s Stockpile Stewardship mission; partnering with other LLNL capabilities to establish leadership in Stockpile Stewardship science associated with inertial confinement fusion and high energy density physics; overseeing the development of advanced laser systems, related optical and target systems, control systems and systems engineering capability for research, commercial and government agencies; and maintaining close partnerships with the Department of Energy/NNSA, other government agencies, academia and private industry.

Wisoff came to LLNL in the fall of 2001 as a deputy associate project manager for systems engineering at NIF. In 2003, he became the associate project manager for small optical systems on NIF, which included responsibility for the front end of the laser and laser diagnostics. Prior to assuming the role of principal associate director, he served as acting principal associate director and as the principal deputy, managing the Directorate Operations Team, which provides facility, information technology, environment, safety and health, security, and administrative services to the directorate. (...)

https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/who-works-nif-ps/management/jeff-wisoff

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Pleasanton couple know space joys, risks firsthand
Author By Matt Carter | Bay Area News Group UPDATED: August 17, 2016 at 8:00 AM PDT
Originally Published: July 29, 2005 at 9:11 AM PDT


Pleasanton couple Tammy Jernigan and Jeff Wisoff flew nine space shuttle missions before retiring from NASA.

PLEASANTON — For Tammy Jernigan and her husband, Jeff Wisoff, this week’s launch of the space shuttle Discovery is more than a story on the evening news or a headline in the morning newspaper.

Before retiring from NASA to work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Pleasanton couple flew nine space shuttle missions.

Each has orbited the Earth aboard Discovery, and Jernigan flew three missions on the space shuttle Columbia before the orbiter was lost with all seven crew members 21/2 years ago.

As NASA astronauts, theywent on eight space walks and helped build the International Space Station — where Discovery is now docked.

Eileen Collins, Discovery’s commander, attended the couple’s January 1999 wedding, and they have “many friends on that flight,” Jernigan said.

Jernigan and Wisoff know what it’s like to entrust their lives to the workings of an enormously complex and powerful machine that Wisoff likens to a “controlled bomb.”

They also know what it’s like to watch from safety as friends and loved ones take the thrilling but potentially risky journey into space.

Jernigan spent more than 1,500 hours in orbit during her five shuttle flights, returning to Earth from her last mission June 6, 1999.

“I think my mother loved the fact that I was an astronaut, but God did she hate it when I flew,” said Jernigan, 46.

Even before the Columbia disaster, some experts put the chance of a catastrophic space shuttle accident — like the one that destroyed the Challenger orbiter in 1986 — at about one in 100, Jernigan said.

“I think (astronauts) know there are risks, and we accept those risks as part of the price we pay for embarking on this great adventure,” she said. “We know there are a lot of good, smart people who work very hard to minimize the risks, but it’s a complex vehicle, and there’s nothing easy about space flight.”

Wisoff, also 46, flew four shuttle missions between 1993 and 2000. He believes that as long as humans rely on rockets to reach space, there will be risks.

“I’m not sure that (risk) would be significantly reduced by building a new vehicle,” he said. “I think that as long as you have to use very explosive fuels to launch, there’s an inherent risk. You’re basically traveling on a controlled bomb, and until we understand a better mechanism for propulsion … there will always be a level of risk at launch that needs to be accepted.”

America’s first astronauts were drawn from a pool of recruits — military test pilots — who faced danger on a routine basis.

Wisoff and Jernigan said the Apollo moon missions sparked an early interest in becoming astronauts.

“When I was a child and we landed on the moon, I remember running outside and looking at the moon,” Jernigan said. “I just wanted to see the moon, knowing that there were human beings on board. I found that idea fascinating — and what a tremendous adventure it would be to actually go there and see and touch and feel and understand what was the moon really made of.”

Although Apollo 17 astronauts were the last people to set foot on the moon, on Dec. 14, 1972, there is talk of a return to the moon as part of a manned mission to Mars.

When she speaks at schools, “I tell kids that I believe there is a child in school today that will go to the moon, and go to Mars,” Jernigan said. “I believe that, because even though … issues of cost and priorities (sometimes) put it on the back burner, it never goes away.”

Not that the two wouldn’t be apprehensive if their own 3-year-old son, Jeffrey, decided to follow in their footsteps.

“I hope that I will have the courage not to deny him his dream. If that’s what he wants to do, then I will support him,” Jernigan said.

“I think right now, he’d be more interested in being a fireman than an astronaut, which is fraught with its own dangers,” Jeffrey’s father said.

Although they miss the adventure of flying aboard the space shuttle, the couple doesn’t seek out thrills.

“I think our greatest thrill is we love being Jeffrey’s parents,” Jernigan said. “We really enjoy being parents, and it’s a new adventure in our lives.”

Today, the two put their intellectual abilities into their work at Livermore Lab, where both hold administrative positions. They chose to live in Pleasanton because of the city’s excellent schools, Jernigan said.

Jernigan helps manage workers who are developing tools for homeland security, such as radiation and biological weapons detectors. Wisoff has helped oversee construction of the National Ignition Facility, which is designed to focus 192 lasers on a test chamber to generate a fusion reaction. That could help scientists learn more about the inner workings of nuclear weapons and to generate electricity from fusion.

“Were very proud to be at the laboratory and very proud of the work the laboratory does for the country,” Jernigan said. “We had opportunities to make a lot more money other places, and one of the reasons we chose the laboratory was because of the importance of the work that’s done here.”

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2005/07/29/pleasanton-couple-know-space-joys-risks-firsthand/

“Sure Hope I Like This”: Remembering a Complex Shuttle Mission, 30 Years On
by Ben Evans 2 years ago


Joined by Pilot Brian Duffy, STS-57 Mission Specialists Janice Voss (left) and Nancy Sherlock made history on the flight. For the first time, a civilian woman and a military woman served together aboard the same space mission. Photo Credit: NASA

(...) A four-hour spacewalk by Low and Wisoff to rehearse Space Station assembly tasks was already planned for 25 June and it was decided to send the astronauts outside to manually close the antennas. They completed this task without great difficulty and pressed ahead with a series of station-related chores, evaluating the movement of large masses at the end of the RMS.


EURECA is pictured firmly in the grasp of Endeavour’s robotic arm. Photo Credit: NASA

Interestingly, this was the first shuttle Extravehicular Activity (EVA) to take place on a mission with a pressurized lab in the payload bay. As a result, the connecting tunnel between Endeavour’s cabin and the Spacehab had to be closed. (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2023/06/23/sure-hope-i-like-this-remembering-a-complex-shuttle-mission-30-years-on/

30 Years Ago: STS-68 The Second Space Radar Lab Mission
John Uri Johnson Space Center Sep 30, 2024


Terrence W. Wilcutt with four cameras

(...) The astronauts began to convert their vehicle into a science platform, and that included breaking up into two teams to enable 24-hour-a-day operations. Baker, Wilcutt, and Wisoff made up the Red Team while Smith, Bursch, and Jones made up the Blue Team. Within five hours of liftoff, the Blue Team began their sleep period while the Red Team started their first on orbit shift by activating the SIR-C and X-SAR instruments in the payload bay and some of the middeck experiments. During inspection of the OMS pods, the astronauts noted an area of damaged tile, later attributed to an impact from a tile from the rim of Endeavour’s front window that came loose during the ascent to orbit. Engineers on the ground assessed the damage and deemed it of no concern for the shuttle’s entry. (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/history/30-years-ago-sts-68-the-second-space-radar-lab-mission/

Astronauts Horrified as Toilet Backs Up
By ABC News January 26, 2001, 8:08 PM

C A P E   C A N A V E R A L, Fla., Oct. 19 -- Fixing a backed-uptoilet in outer space is, if anything, an even messier job thanon the ground, as astronaut Jeff Wisoff learned today.

The problem began soon after the crew of space shuttleDiscovery woke up to begin their ninth day in orbit. Pilot PamMelroy was performing the daily routine of compacting the wastein the shuttle’s toilet, or as NASA calls it, the WasteContainment System, when it registered a malfunction.

Gloves Nowhere to Be Found

“We’re not sure exactly what happened, but they do have togo in and clean it out some. You’d definitely want some gloveson,” NASA spokesman James Hartsfield said.

That was what Wisoff thought, too. While other astronautswere busy opening some hatches on the International SpaceStation for a day of inside operations, the job of scooping outthe solid waste fell to him.

Even though he looked everywhere he could think of, hecould not find the shoulder-length gloves he wanted.

“We suggest you consider an elbow length,” Mission Controlradioed Wisoff.

“We’ll use that if we have to,” Wisoff called back.

There was no word from the Waste Containment System untilMelroy’s voice came over the communications line.

“Well, Jeff is more a hero than most people willappreciate. We got it taken care of and everything is back tonormal,” Melroy said.

A Chronic Problem

Just a day earlier Wisoff had been walking in space testingan emergency thruster pack to be used by an astronaut if oneever became stranded in space. So far, that has not happened.

Toilets, on the other hand, have been a problem duringprevious shuttle missions and on the Russian Mir space station.They are considered essential and become a priority wheneverone breaks.

A new state-of-the-art toilet is aboard the InternationalSpace Station, but the crew was not scheduled to enter thatmodule and the toilet was not completely assembled.

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=99004&page=1

NASA History Office @NASAhistory 4:00 PM · Jun 25, 2020
Would you ever want to walk in space? Today in 1993, NASA astronaut Jeff Wisoff stood on a Portable Foot Restraint (PFR) attached to the end of the Space Shuttle Endeavour's Remote Manipulator System (RMS), conducting a nearly 6-hour spacewalk during mission STS-57.

https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/1276153182218051584

Association of Space Explorers @ASE_Astronauts 11:00 PM · Aug 16, 2023
#ASEspotlight: Jeff Wisoff 💫
STS-81 Mission Specialist Wisoff smiled as he floated in the base block of the Mir space station in January 1997.
Fun fact: He is a life member of ASE!
Happy 65th birthday, Jeff! 🎉

https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1691917974024655303

Association of Space Explorers @ASE_Astronauts 7:00 PM · Aug 16, 2025
#HappyBirthday to ASE Life Member Jeff Wisoff, who flew to space four times between 1993 and 2000 (STS-57, STS-68, STS-81, and STS-92), including as part of trips to Mir and the  @Space_Station!

https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1956763002188771339
2024 https://x.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1824507043421585841