Jeffrey Ashby
Jeffrey Shears \"Bones\" Ashby (born June 1, 1954) is an engineer, former American naval aviator and astronaut, a veteran of three space shuttle missions. He is a retired Captain in the U.S. Navy. He attended the University of Idaho, earning a B.S. in mechanical engineering in 1976. He later earned a master\'s degree in aviation systems from the University of Tennessee in 1993. Ashby is a 1986 graduate of the Naval Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun) and the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School. As a test pilot in the U.S. Navy, Ashby helped develop the F/A-18 aircraft and flew the aircraft in combat missions as part of Operation Desert Storm and Operation Southern Watch during and after the Gulf War and as part of Operation Continue Hope in Somalia. Ashby was selected as an astronaut candidate in December 1994 at age 40. He piloted space shuttle missions STS-93 in July 1999 and STS-100 in April 2001, and commanded mission STS-112 in October 2002. His first flight, aboard Columbia, deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory and was the first U.S. space mission commanded by a female, Eileen Collins. Ashby\'s latter two flights aboard Endeavour and Atlantis were the sixth and ninth assembly missions for the International Space Station.
Spaceflights
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 STS-93 PLT 23.07. - 28.07.1999 4d 22h 50m
2 STS-100 PLT 19.04. - 01.05.2001 11d 21h 31m
3 STS-112 CDR 07.10. - 18.10.2002 10d 19h 58m
Total 27d 16h 19m
