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 Barry in April 2001 | |
| Born | Daniel Thomas Barry (1953-12-30)December 30, 1953 (age 72) Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Education | |
| Spouse | Susan R. Barry |
| Space career | |
| NASA astronaut | |
Time in space | 30d 14h 27m |
| Selection | NASA Group 14 (1992) |
TotalEVAs | 4 |
Total EVA time | 25h, 49m |
| Missions | STS-72 STS-96 STS-105 |
Mission insignia |    |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Correlated X-Ray Diffraction Analysis and Electron Microscopy of Photoreceptor Membranes |
Daniel Thomas Barry (born December 30, 1953)[1] is an American engineer, scientist, television personality, and a retiredNASAastronaut. He was a contestant on theCBS reality television programSurvivor: Panama, as well as onBattleBots onABC.[2] He was atSingularity University from 2009 to 2012, where he was co-chair of the Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and the chair of the graduate summer program.[3][4] He is also a co-founder of Fellow AI, a telepresence robotics company,[5] and the founder and president of Denbar Robotics.[6][7]
Barry is a 1971 graduate ofBolton High School inAlexandria, Louisiana.[1] He is a member of theTheta Chi fraternity.
Barry graduated in 1975 with aBachelor of Science degree inelectrical engineering fromCornell University inIthaca, New York. He graduated in 1980 with aDoctor of Philosophy inelectrical engineering andcomputer science fromPrinceton University after completing a doctoral dissertation titledCorrelatedX-ray diffraction analysis andelectron microscopy of photoreceptor membranes. In 1982, he graduated with aDoctor of Medicine degree from theMiller School of Medicine at theUniversity of Miami inMiami.
Following graduate school atPrinceton University, Barry was aNational Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow inphysics at Princeton. He then attended theMiller School of Medicine at theUniversity of Miami, where he graduated in 1982. He completed an internship and a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency at theUniversity of Michigan in 1985. He was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and in the Bioengineering Program at the University of Michigan in 1985, and his tenure was approved by the Regents in 1992. He spent the summers of 1985–87 at theMarine Biological Laboratory inWoods Hole, Massachusetts, supported by the Grass Foundation for work in skeletal muscle physiology and as the Associate Director of the Grass Foundation Fellowship Program (1986–87). His research primarily involves biological signal processing, including signal processing theory, algorithms, and applications to specific biological systems. The applications include acoustic signals generated by contracting skeletal muscle, electrical signals from muscle, and heart sounds. He has also worked inprosthetic design. Barry's work has been supported by theNational Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Grass Foundation, and theAmerican Heart Association of Michigan. He has five patents, over 50 articles in scientific journals, and has served on two scientific journal editorial boards.
Selected by NASA in March 1992, Barry reported to theJohnson Space Center in August 1992. He completed one year of training and qualified for assignment as a mission specialist onSpace Shuttle flight crews. Dr. Barry has worked on primary payload development, the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL), portable computing issues for Space Shuttle, Chief of Astronaut Appearances, flight clinic ombudsman, source board member for the NASA Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI), Astronaut Office representative to NASDA, theJapanese Space Agency, and a tour of duty with the Office of Biological & Physical Research, NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C. A veteran of three space flights,STS-72 (1996),STS-96 (1999), andSTS-105 (2001), Barry logged over 734 hours in space, including 4 spacewalks totaling 25 hours and 53 minutes. He retired from NASA in April 2005 whereupon he started Denbar Robotics and continues to serve as president.
STS-72Endeavour (January 11–20, 1996) was a 9-day flight during which the crew retrieved the Space Flyer Unit (launched from Japan 10-months earlier) and deployed and retrieved the OAST-Flyer. Barry performed a 6-hour, 9 minute spacewalk designed to demonstrate and evaluate techniques to be used in the assembly of theInternational Space Station. Mission duration was 142 Earth orbits, traveling 3.7 million miles in 214 hours and 41 seconds. On this mission, Barry and Japanese astronautKoichi Wakata were the first people to playGo in space; for this achievement, Barry received the honorary award of Ni Dan rank by theNihon Kiin making him one of only four Western Go players to receive such an award. Barry and Wakata used a special Go set, which was named Go Space, designed by Wai-Cheung Willson Chow.[8]
STS-96Discovery (May 27 to June 6, 1999) was the first mission to dock with the International Space Station. It was a ten-day mission during which the crew delivered four tons of logistics and supplies in preparation for the arrival of the first crew to live on the station. The mission was accomplished in 153 Earth orbits, traveling 4 million miles in 235 hours and 13 minutes. Barry performed a spacewalk for 7 hours and 55 minutes.[9]
STS-105Discovery (Aug 10–22, 2001) was the eleventh mission to the International Space Station. While at the orbital outpost, the STS-105 crew delivered theExpedition 3 crew, attached the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, and transferred over 2.7 metric tons of supplies and equipment to the station. Barry andPatrick G. Forrester performed two spacewalks totaling 11 hours and 45 minutes of EVA time. STS-105 also brought home theExpedition 2 crew. The STS-105 mission was accomplished in 186 orbits of the Earth, traveling over 4.9 million miles in 285 hours and 13 minutes.[7]
In 2006, Barry was a contestant onSurvivor: Panama — Exile Island, the 12th season of the reality competition seriesSurvivor. He started in the older male tribe and immediately bonded withTerry Deitz due to their common flying backgrounds. When the four tribes were reduced to two, Barry and Deitz made an all-male alliance with Austin Carty and Nick Stanbury from the younger tribe. Barry also bonded with Ruth-Marie Milliman, which led to her being blindsided when she was voted out in Episode Four. He reconciled with his alliance-mates and finally revealed to Stanbury his background as an astronaut in Episode Six. When the Casaya tribe won the combined Reward/Immunity Challenge in that episode and sent Sally Schumann to Exile Island (making herimmune from the Tribal Council vote), Barry's fate was sealed. Carty and Stanbury were allied, so when Deitz voted against him, Barry was voted out 3–1.
Barry competed on the televised robot combat tournamentBattlebots revival series on ABC, with his combat robotBlack Ice, a shooter pusher wedge bot. He premiered in 2016 with robot combat partner Dr. Dan Parrish in the tournament.[10][11]
Barry is married toneurobiologist and authorSusan R. Barry. They have two children, who both work in robotics.
This article incorporatespublic domain material from websites or documents of theNational Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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