Jack Fischer | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Fisher at theNational Air and Space Museum in 2017 | |
| Born | Jack David Fischer (1974-01-23)January 23, 1974 (age 52) Louisville, Colorado, U.S. |
| Education | United States Air Force Academy (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS) |
| Space career | |
| NASA astronaut | |
| Rank | Colonel,USAF |
Time in space | 135d 18h 8m[1] |
| Selection | NASA Group 20 (2009) |
TotalEVAs | 2 |
Total EVA time | 6h 54m |
| Missions | Soyuz MS-04 (Expedition 51/52) |
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Jack David Fischer (born January 23, 1974) is an Americanengineer,test pilot and a formerNASAastronaut.[2] Fischer was selected in June 2009 as a member of theNASA Astronaut Group 20 and qualified as an astronaut in 2011. He made his first spaceflight in April 2017, as a flight engineer forExpedition 51/52 on theInternational Space Station.
Fischer was born January 23, 1974, inLouisville, Colorado. He is married to Elizabeth Simonson fromBoulder, Colorado. They have two daughters. Fischer's father, Gary Fischer, is deceased, and his mother, JoBelle Fischer, still lives near Louisville, Colorado.
In 1992, he graduated from Centaurus High School, inLafayette, Colorado. He received hisBachelor of Science degree inAstronautical Engineering at theU.S. Air Force Academy in 1996. He completed aMaster of Science degree inAeronautics and Astronautics at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998.[3]
Fischer is aColonel in theU.S. Air Force. He attended Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training atLaughlin Air Force Base,Texas, in 1998. Afterwards he attendedF-15E Strike Eagle training atSeymour-Johnson Air Force Base,North Carolina, before being assigned as an operational pilot in the391st Fighter Squadron Bold Tigers.
Fischer served two combat tours inSouthwest Asia following September 11, 2001, and was part ofOperation Enduring Freedom andOperation Southern Watch overAfghanistan andIraq.
He is a 2004 graduate of theU.S. Air Force Test Pilot School (Class 03B) atEdwards Air Force Base,California, and was presented with theOnizuka Prop Wash Award.[3]
In 2006, Fischer again returned toEdwards Air Force Base, as part of the F-22 Combined Test Force and411th Flight Test Squadron testing theF-22 Raptor. In 2008, he was selected as a Strategic Policy Intern inWashington, D.C. While serving atThe Pentagon, Fischer served in the Chairman's Action Group for the Chairman of theJoint Chiefs of Staff and in the Space and Intelligence Capabilities Office with the Senior Advisor for the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.
Colonel Fischer is an Air ForceCommand Pilot with 3,000 flight hours in more than 45 types of aircraft.[3]
Fischer was selected in June 2009 as a member of theNASA Astronaut Group 20 and qualified as an astronaut in 2011.[2]Fischer has worked in theCapsule Communicator (CAPCOM) Soyuz, International Space Station Operations, International Space Station Integration, and Exploration branches of the Astronaut Office.
In 2013, Fischer served as cavenaut into theESA CAVES[4] training inSardinia, alongsideJeremy Hansen,Michael Barratt,Satoshi Furukawa,Aleksei Ovchinin andPaolo Nespoli.
Originally assigned to the Expedition 52/53 crew, he was reassigned to launch aboardSoyuz MS-04 to the ISS in April 2017 as a flight engineer forExpedition 51/52.[5]
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Fischer launched aboard MS-04 on April 20, 2017. They docked with the station approximately 6 hours after launch, being the first crew of a Soyuz-MS series to make the shorter 6 hour rendezvous instead of the 2 day orbital rendezvous of the previous launches.
On May 13, 2017, Fischer performed his first career EVA withPeggy Whitson. The EVA was shortened due to an issue ahead of the spacewalk where the spacewalkers had to share a SCU (Service Cooling Unit) line after the umbilical for Fischer's EMU suffered from a leak. His suit was in good shape, but the line could not be used. The impact on the EMU battery life meant the full EVA duration couldn't be conducted. They replaced an avionics box on the starboard truss called an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier (ELC), a storage platform. The duration was 4 hours and 13 minutes, and it was the 200th EVA to be performed on the ISS.[6]
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On May 23, 2017, Fischer performed his second EVA with Whitson. They replaced a backup multiplexer-demultiplexer (MDM) unit that had failed on May 20, 2017. The duration was 2 hours and 46 minutes.[7]
Fischer returned to Earth along withPeggy Whitson andFyodor Yurchikhin aboardSoyuz MS-04 on September 3, 2017.[8] The overall duration of his stay in space was 135 days, 18 hours and 8 minutes.[1]
On May 24, 2018, he announced his early retirement from NASA to return to Air Force Service.[9]
Following retirement from NASA, Fischer served as the Chief Technology Officer for Collins Aerospace in Houston. In February 2021, Fischer joinedIntuitive Machines as Vice President of Strategic Programs,[10] and during theirIM-1 mission Fischer served as one of the Mission Directors.[11]
This article incorporatespublic domain material from websites or documents of theNational Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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