ShEPERD Uil'yam MakMaikl (SHEPHERD William McMichael) /SShA/
1.08.2000 0:00 | A. B. Zheleznyakov/Enciklopediya Kosmonavtika

ShEPERD Uil'yam MakMaikl (SHEPHERD William McMichael)

      STATUS: Deistvuyushii kosmonavt NASA.

      DATA I MESTO ROZhDENIYa: Rodilsya 26 iyulya 1949 goda v g. Oak-Ridzh (sht. Tennessi, SShA). Detskie gody provel v g. Babilon (sht. N'yu-'ork, SShA), kotoryi i schitaet svoim rodnym gorodom.

      OBRAZOVANIE: 1967 g. - srednyaya shkola "Arkadiya" v g. Skotsdeil (sht. Arizona, SShA); 1971 g. - Akademiya VMS SShA (stepen' bakalavra v oblasti aerokosmicheskogo mashinostroeniya); 1978 g. - Massachusettskii tehnologicheskii institut (stepen' magistra po mehanike).

      SLUZhBA: Posle okonchaniya Akademii VMS SShA sluzhil v otryade boevyh plovcov "Bleven", otryadah "Seal One", "Seal Two" i otryade special'nogo naznacheniya "Twenty". O ego prebyvanii v otryadah special'nogo naznacheniya prakticheski nichego neizvestno, takzhe kak i o poluchennyh vo vremya sluzhby nagradah.

      KOSMIChESKAYa DEYaTEL'NOST': V mae 1984 goda byl otobran v otryad kosmonavtov NASA i proshel polnyi kurs obshekosmicheskoi podgotovki v Kosmicheskom centre imeni Dzhonsona (NASA Johnson Space Center). S noyabrya 1993 goda po yanvar' 1996 goda yavlyalsya zamestitelem rukovoditelya programmy po Mezhdunarodnoi kosmicheskoi stancii.

      KOSMIChESKIE POLETY: 1-i polet - so 2 po 6 dekabrya 1988 goda v kachestve specialista poleta kosmicheskogo korablya "Atlantis" po programme poleta STS-27 prodolzhitel'nost'yu 4 dnya 6 chasov 5 minut 37 sekund. Polet prohodil po programme Ministerstva oborony SShA. 2-i polet - s 6 po 10 oktyabrya 1990 goda v kachestve specialista poleta korablya "Discovery" po programme STS-41 prodolzhitel'nost'yu 3 dnya 23 chasa 10 minut 4 sekundy. Osnovnoi zadachei poleta yavlyalsya zapusk kosmicheskogo korablya "Ulysses". 3-i polet - s 22 oktyabrya po 1 noyabrya 1992 goda v kachestve specialista poleta korablya "Columbia" po programme STS-52. Vo vremya poleta na okolozemnoi orbite byl razvernut lazernyi geodinamicheskii sputnik "LAGEOS" i provedeny eksperimenty po mikrogravitacii s mezhdunarodnoi poleznoi nagruzkoi. Polet prodolzhalsya 9 dnei 20 chasov 56 minut 14 sekund. Za 3 reisa v kosmos naletal 18 dnei 2 chasa 11 minut 55 sekund. 31 oktyabrya 2000 goda v chetvertyi raz startoval v kosmos na bortu rossiiskogo kosmicheskogo korablya "Soyuz TM-31" v kachestve bortinzhenera-2 korablya i komandira 1-go ekipazha Mezhdunarozhnoi kosmicheskoi stancii.

      NAGRADY: Nagrazhden premiei NASA v oblasti aviacii imeni Stava Torna ("Steve Thorne" Aviation Award).

      SEME'NOE POLOZhENIE: Zhenat na urozhdennoi Bet Stringhem (Beth Stringham).

      UVLEChENIYa: Uvlecheniya - parusnyi sport, plavanie, rabota v garazhe.