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NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
Houston, Texas 77058
Biographical Data
DAVID A. WOLF (BSEE, M.D.)
NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER)
PERSONAL DATA: Born August 23, 1956, in Indianapolis, Indiana. He enjoys sport aerobatic flying, scuba diving, handball, running and water skiing. His parents, Dr. and Mrs. Harry Wolf, reside in Indianapolis.
EDUCATION: Graduated from North Central High School, Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1974; received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1978, and received a Doctor of Medicine degree from Indiana University in 1982. He completed his medical internship in 1983 at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana, and United States Air Force flight surgeon training at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Wolf has completed both U.S. astronaut and Russian cosmonaut training.
SPECIAL HONORS: Recipient of the NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal, 1990, and was NASA Inventor of the Year, 1992. Dr. Wolf graduated “with distinction” from the honors curriculum in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University and received an Academic Achievement Award upon graduation from Indiana University Medical School (combined research program). He is a Purdue “Distinguished Engineering Alumnus.” He received the Carl R. Ruddell scholarship award for research in medical ultrasonic digital signal and image processing. He is a member of Eta Kappa Knu and Phi Eta Sigma honorary societies. Dr. Wolf has received 15 U.S. patents, published more than 40 technical publications or papers, and received more than 20 Space Act Awards, primarily for 3-D tissue engineering technologies for which he received the Texas State Bar Patent of the Year in 1994. Dr. Wolf has received an additional honorary Doctorate from Indiana University and four Spaceflight Medals.
EXPERIENCE: As a research scientist at the Indianapolis Center for Advanced Research from 1980 to 1983, Dr. Wolf established himself as a pioneer in the development of modern medical ultrasonic image processing techniques. This technology applied pulse compression digital RF pulse echo signal processing to improve image resolution and enable target parameter extraction, techniques now used by most commercial systems. He also developed novel Doppler demodulation techniques, extending the range velocity product limitations inherent to conventional pulsed Doppler systems. He served as a USAF senior flight surgeon in the Air National Guard (1983 to 2004), achieving the rank of Lt. Colonel. He has logged more than 2,000 hours of flight time, including air combat training as a weapons systems officer (F4 Phantom jet), T-38 Talon and competition sport aerobatics (Christen Eagle).
NASA EXPERIENCE: Dr. Wolf served as chief of the Astronaut Office Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Branch for much of the International Space Station (ISS) assembly. He led a team responsible for the development, test and execution of spacewalks from the ISS and space shuttle. This team plays a critical role for ISS assembly, maintenance and repair; requiring innovations to extend EVA capability in the areas of hardware, techniques and human performance. Dr. Wolf has logged 168 days, 12 hours, 56 minutes and 04 seconds in space over four separate missions, including a long-duration mission (128 days) on the Russian MIR space station, which was trained and conducted completely in the Russian language. He has conducted a total of seven spacewalks, using both the American and Russian spacesuits, and has logged 47 hours and 05 minutes of extravehicular activity. He is an active public speaker and is called on to represent NASA in a wide variety of venues to communicate the experience and importance of human space flight.
In 1983, Dr. Wolf joined the Medical Sciences Division, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas. He was responsible for the development of the American Flight Echocardiograph, which is used in space for investigating cardiovascular physiology in microgravity. This work required synthesis of spacecraft avionics integration, human physiology and space operations to acquire fundamental cardiovascular data for human space exploration and reveal new Earth-based physiological principles. On completion, he was assigned as Chief Engineer for design of the Space Station Medical Facility, now operational on orbit. This work pioneered concepts in telemedicine, medical informatics and bioinstrumentation. In 1986, he became Chief Engineer (and, later, Program Manager) of the “Space Bioreactor,” a biotechnology-based tissue engineering and cancer research program. This team, under Dr. Wolf’s leadership, achieved the development of state of the art tissue engineering systems now widely used for both commercial and research purposes on Earth. Dr. Wolf fostered the successful technology transfer to private industry and to academic laboratory applications. Special skills developed include real-time computer process control, communications, power systems, bioprocessing, fluid dynamics, aerospace physiology and aerospace medicine. In these roles, Dr. Wolf was responsible for technical and multidisciplinary team leadership, a multimillion dollar budget, systems design, safety (electrical and biological) and spacecraft integration. This “on schedule” program is now a core biotechnology research facility on the ISS.
Selected as a NASA astronaut in January 1990, Dr. Wolf became qualified for space flight in July 1991. His technical assignments have included orbiter vehicle processing and testing at Kennedy Space Center (1991 to 1992) and spacecraft communications (CAPCOM, 1994 to 1995) on console for the first and third shuttle-MIR rendezvous and docking. He is a senior EVA (spacewalk) instructor and has qualified with the shuttle robotic manipulator system (robot arm). Dr. Wolf completed cosmonaut training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Star City, Russia. In December 2012, Dr. Wolf retired from NASA. He now works as a private consultant, serves as Extraordinary Scientist in Residence for the Indianapolis Children’s Museum (the largest of its kind), and is an active public and motivational speaker.
SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: STS-58 Columbia (October 16 to November 1, 1993) was a dedicated Spacelab life sciences research mission. The crew conducted neurovestibular, cardiovascular, cardiopulmonary, metabolic, and musculoskeletal research, using microgravity to reveal fundamental human physiology otherwise masked by Earth’s gravity. The mission duration was 14 days, 12 minutes and 32 seconds, a record at that time.
NASA-MIR 6 (Sept 25, 1997 to Jan 31, 1998). This sixth mission of the joint shuttle-MIR long-duration space flight program, immediately following “the” fire and collision, and recovering from multiple total power failures, played a core role to establish the international relationships serving the foundation of the current ISS Program. Dr. Wolf performed cosmonaut engineering and scientific duties on the Russian MIR space station, including 9 EVA hours in the Russian ORLAN spacesuit. The mission duration was 128 days. Wolf launched on STS-86 and returned on STS-89.
STS-112 Atlantis (October 7 to October 18, 2002) and STS-127 Endeavor (July 15 to July 31, 2009). These missions were on-orbit heavy ISS assembly missions by EVA and Robotics, including the S1 truss, Japanese Exposed Facility (JEF), P6 battery changeouts and multiple large external equipment installations. The missions provided critical ISS spacecraft communications, thermal control and power management systems. Wolf’s primary duties were as lead spacewalker (EV1) and rendezvous navigation specialist. He performed a total of 6 spacewalks: 19 hours and 41 minutes of EVA on STS-112; 18 hours and 24 minutes of EVA on STS-127. STS-112 mission duration was 10 days, 19 hours and 58 minutes; and STS-12 mission duration was 15 days, 16 hours, 44 minutes and 58 seconds.
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IMDb
Ghostbusters (1984)
Taglines
They ain't afraid of no ghost.
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http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-28/local/me-50618_1_edwards-air-force-base
Los Angeles Times
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE : Shuttle to Be Visible This Morning and Friday
October 28, 1993
Los Angeles residents will be able to catch a pre-dawn glimpse of the space shuttle Columbia as it soars over Southern California this morning, NASA officials said.
The shuttle also will be visible in its 178-mile-high orbit on Friday morning as it heads for a Monday touchdown at Edwards Air Force base near Mojave after 14 days of flight, the longest in shuttle history.
Columbia lifted off Oct. 18 from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on a mission designed to study the impact of weightlessness on human physiology.
NASA said the craft will appear only for a minute or two each morning. Looking like a fast-moving star, the shuttle will appear at 6:25 a.m. this morning for two minutes, traveling from west-southwest to north-northeast, according to a spokeswoman for NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. On Friday, it will be visible at 6:24 a.m. for two minutes moving from west to north-northeast.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-11-01/news/mn-52008_1_astronauts-edwards-base
Los Angeles Times
Astronauts Shut Lab, Aim for Edwards Base
November 01, 1993 Associated Press
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Columbia's science astronauts were jabbed with needles for the last time in space Sunday as NASA's longest shuttle flight drew to a close.
Researchers were thrilled with the data collected during the 14-day medical mission.
The astronauts worked 18-hour days for much of the flight and volunteered for extra tests, some of them dizzying, so that scientists could better understand how the body changes in weightlessness.
Before shutting down Columbia's laboratory, the mission's two physicians, one veterinarian and one biochemist squeezed in more heart measurements and drew blood from one another to gauge calcium and protein levels.
Columbia's journey was due to end with a 7:06 a.m. PST landing today at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-11-02/local/me-52337_1_space-shuttle-columbia
Los Angeles Times
Santa Clarita / Antelope Valley : Shuttle Landing Draws Big Crowd : Space: Fans and first-timers flock to witness what may be the last Columbia touchdown in Southern California until 1995.
November 02, 1993 SHARON MOESER SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE — It drops out of the sky like a brick. And in the best of conditions you might get to count your view of it in minutes rather than seconds.
But there they were, up before the sun, the fanatics and the first-timers. Equipped with blankets, chairs and cameras, about 35,000 people braved the desert chill Monday morning to watch the space shuttle Columbia return to Earth after a 14-day mission.
Several records were set during the mission, including the longest flight in the history of the shuttle program and the first animal dissection in space. Yet it was not those records that drew hordes of people to this air base on the edge of the Mojave Desert.
Instead it was an opportunity to see a Southern California shuttle landing, perhaps the last until 1995.
Like many people, Maureen Reeve said she, her husband and four children came to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility at Edwards AFB on Monday to watch Columbia land because it's "probably the last one for who knows how long."
Pauline Weiss and Will Poole have lived in a small town next to Edwards AFB for four years but never before took the time to watch an orbiter touch down. Monday morning they were among the privileged. With VIP passes secured from a relative who works at NASA, the couple stood on the roof of a Dryden building for a bird's-eye view of the 7:06 a.m. touchdown.
Spectators in RVs, some who had come from as far as Washington and Arizona, began arriving at Edwards AFB on Sunday. Early Monday thousands of cars streamed in, backing up traffic as far as a mile from the base's heaviest traveled west entrance gate.
Because of road construction near the shuttle viewing site, spectators were allowed access to NASA's hillside viewing area, an area normally reserved for invited guests.
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance," said Yorba Linda resident George Lawson, who watched his first shuttle landing with his wife from atop his RV. "If you see it a second time that's something the good Lord gives you."
Watching Columbia land brought tears to the eyes of Bob and Jan Baxter, Washington residents. "To think we can send people out like that and then bring them back to one little spot on Earth, it makes you feel good about where you live," Bob Baxter said.
Charles Wiggins and Toni Moore consider themselves groupies. They drove with two friends from Tucson, the third time they've done so. They left Sunday and headed back home Monday.
"People in space, it's something that's special to our generation," Moore said.
Dedicated shuttle watchers Dick Adams and Bill Heeding expected Monday's landing--each has seen six landings--to be the best yet. Yet despite their whistles and yelps as the orbiter came into view, when it was all over they conceded that the rising sun combined with the shuttle's entry angle made for less-than-optimum viewing.
For years Adams' wife, Harriet, shook her head at her husband's 300-mile round-trip jaunts from their Lake Elsinore home to Edwards AFB. On Monday, having come along on the journey for the first time, Harriet had a new perspective.
"I'm impressed," she said moments after Columbia glided to a stop on the distant runway. "It was worth getting up at 2 a.m."
For Dick Adams and Heeding, both who wore jackets emblazoned with NASA patches, it was just one more mission accomplished.
"Anything to do with anything off this planet we love," Heeding said.
Both men are disappointed that none of the nine shuttle missions planned for 1994 is scheduled to land at Edwards AFB. "If they wouldn't have fixed the brakes they'd all be landing here," Adams quipped.
First-time shuttle watcher Peggy Havens, an Apple Valley resident, was so impressed with what she saw, she asked, "Now how do we get a ride on it?"
From 8/23/1956 ( David Alexander Wolf ) To 11/1/1993 is 13584 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/7/1984 ( premiere US film "Ghost Busters" ) is 6792 days
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash ) To 11/1/1993 is 1566 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/15/1970 ( premiere US TV series episode "Bonanza"::"The Law and Billy Burgess" ) is 1566 days
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-58.html
NASA
Space Shuttle
STS-58
Mission: SLS-2
Space Shuttle: Columbia
Launch Pad: 39B
Launched: October 18, 1993 10:53 a.m. EDT
Landing Site: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
Landing: November 1, 1993. 07:05:42 a.m. PST
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IMDb
Ghostbusters (1984)
Release Info
USA 7 June 1984 (Westwood, California) (premiere)
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Springfield! Springfield!
Flight Of The Intruder (1991)
Hey, Jack, you were with a Marine detachment. You ever get used to it?
Yeah, I got used to it. I'm a doc-- that's what I do.
Naw, nobody gets used to it. You can put your job in front of it like the skipper, or you can even joke about it, but nobody gets used to it.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/01/26/shannon.lucid.profile/index.html
CNN
Legendary astronaut still finds herself star-struck
POSTED: 12:10 a.m. EDT, April 10, 2007
By Peggy Mihelich
CNN
(CNN) -- During the last space shuttle mission to the international space station, television cameras panned around the Johnson Space Center's Mission Control and landed on the CAPCOM desk -- the relay station between astronauts on the ground and those circling in orbit.
There sat astronaut Shannon Lucid, diligently taking notes and talking Discovery astronauts through procedure after procedure. At 64, Lucid continues to work as an active member of the NASA astronaut corps and loves every minute of it.
Lucid's career at NASA is the stuff of legends -- she was in the first class of NASA's female astronauts, flew on five shuttle flights and spent six months on Russia's Mir space lab. She's known for her zest for life, steely determination and resourcefulness. (Photo gallery: Explore Lucid's career)
"The very thought of exploring space I just find really exciting. And I figure I'll work as long as I'm happy to wake up every day and think 'Wow, I'm so glad to be going to work,'" Lucid said.
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David Wolf (astronaut)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Alexander Wolf (born August 23, 1956) is an American astronaut, medical doctor, electrical engineer.
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Springfield! Springfield!
Flight Of The Intruder (1991)
Well, then, why not?
Because they didn't drop!
You're kidding me.
All that jinking around must have thrown off the ACU.
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Springfield! Springfield!
Flight Of The Intruder (1991)
Come hard left.
Heading 1 80.
1 -8-0, one more time.
Check the ACU circuit breakers.
Armament circuit breakers back in.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 11:05 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 17 October 2016
