ROSS Dzherri Linn (ROSS Jerry Lynn) /SShA/
1.08.2000 0:00 | A. B. Zheleznyakov/Enciklopediya Kosmonavtika

ROSS Dzherri Linn (ROSS Jerry Lynn).

      Kosmonavt SShA. Rodilsya 20 yanvarya 1948 goda v gorode Kroun Point (shtat Indiana, SShA). V 1966 godu zakonchil srednyuyu shkolu v gorode Kroun Point i postupil v universitet Purdue. Udostoen stepenei bakalavra i magistra v oblasti mehaniki v 1970 i 1972 godah sootvetstvenno. Posle okonchaniya universiteta postupil v VVS SShA i sluzhil v inzhenernom divizione laboratorii VVS na aviabaze Rait-Patterson (shtat Ogaio, SShA). V 1976 godu zakonchil inzhenernye kursy shkoly letchikov-ispytatelei VMF SShA. Sluzhil v 6510-m ispytatel'nom kryle na aviabaze Edvards (shtat Kaliforniya, SShA). Uchastvoval v ispytaniyah strategicheskogo bombardirovshika V-1. Imeet nalet 2800 chasov na samoletah 21 tipa. V mae 1980 goda zachislen v otryad kosmonavtov NASA. V 1981 godu, zakonchiv kurs obshekosmicheskoi podgotovki, poluchil kvalifikaciyu specialista poleta. Svoi pervyi kosmicheskii polet sovershil s 27 noyabrya po 3 dekabrya 1985 goda vmeste s Brewster SHAW, Bryan O'CONNOR, Sherwood SPRING, Mary CLEAVE, Charles WALKER i Rudolfo NERI VELA v kachestve specialista poleta korablya "Atlantis" po programme 61-B. Prodolzhitel'nost' poleta sostavila 6 dnei 21 chas 4 minuty 49 sekund. Svoi vtoroi kosmicheskii polet sovershil so 2 po 6 dekabrya 1988 goda vmeste s Robert GIBSON, Guy GARDNER, Richard MULLANE i William SHEPHERD v kachestve specialista poleta korablya "Atlantis" po programme STS-27. Prodolzhitel'nost' poleta sostavila 4 dnya 9 chasov 5 minut 35 sekund. Svoi tretii kosmicheskii polet sovershil s 5 po 11 aprelya 1991 goda vmeste s Steven NAGEL, Kenneth CAMERON, Jerome APT i Linda GODWIN v kachestve specialista poleta korablya "Atlantis" po programme STS-37. Prodolzhitel'nost' poleta sostavila 5 dnei 23 chasa 32 minuty 44 sekundy. Svoi chetvertyi kosmicheskii polet sovershil s 26 aprelya po 6 maya 1993 goda vmeste s Steven NAGEL, Terrence HENRICKS, Charles PRECOURT, Bernhard HARRIS, Hans SCHLEGEL i Ulrich WALTER v kachestve specialista poleta korablya "Columbia" po programme STS-55. Prodolzhitel'nost' poleta sostavila 9 dnei 23 chasa 40 minut. Svoi pyatyi kosmicheskii polet sovershil s 12 po 20 noyabrya 1995 goda vmeste s Kenneth CAMERON, James HALSELL, William McARTHUR i Chris HADFIELD v kachestve specialista poleta korablya "Atlantis" po programme STS-74. Prodolzhitel'nost' poleta sostavila 8 dnei 4 chasa 30 minut 44 sekundy. Svoi shestoi kosmicheskii polet sovershil s 4 po 16 dekabrya 1998 goda vmeste s Robert CABANA, Frederick STURCKOW, Nancy CURRIE, James NEWMAN i Sergeem KRIKALEVYM v kachestve specialista poleta korablya "Endeavour" po programme STS-88. Vo vremya poleta byli provedeny raboty po montazhu Mezhdunarodnoi kosmicheskoi stancii. Prodolzhitel'nost' poleta sostavila 11 dnei 19 chasov 18 minut 47 sekund. Za 6 reisov v kosmos naletal 47 dnei 5 chasov 12 minut 39 sekund. Sovershil sem' vyhodov v otkrytyi kosmos, prorabotav tam 44 chasa 9 minut, chto yavlyaetsya rekordom sredi amerikanskih kosmonavtov.
      Nagrazhden shest'yu medalyami NASA "Zv kosmicheskii polet" (1985, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1998), drugimi mealyami.
      Zhenat na Karen S.Pearson. V sem'e dvoe detei.
      Uvlekaetsya fotografiei, modelirovaniem raket.



Pri podgotovke biografii Jerry Ross ispol'zovany materialy NASA.