Joseph R. Tanner

Joseph R. Tanner is an astronaut from United States of America affiliated with the government agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration, embarked on 4 space flights and engaging in 7 spacewalk(s) during his/her career as an astronaut.

Joseph Richard "Joe" Tanner is an American instructor at the University of Colorado Boulder, mechanical engineer, a former naval officer and aviator, and a former NASA astronaut. He was born in Danville, Illinois. He is unusual among astronauts as he did not have a background in flight test nor did he earn any advanced academic degrees. Typically those who did not do military flight test have an M.D. or Ph.D., if not a master's, whereas Tanner's path to becoming an astronaut followed operational military flying and then into NASA for operational jet training before being selected into the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1992, following an unsuccessful application in 1987.

• Date of Birth: 01/21/1950
• Status: Retired
• First Flight: 11/03/1994
• Last Flight: 09/09/2006
• In Space: No

Launches

• Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-97
• Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-115
• Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-82
• Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-66

Spacewalks

STS-82 EVA 2

The spacewalk began at 02/15/1997 03:25 UTC and ended at 02/15/1997 10:52 UTC on the Hubble Space Telescope (LEO) for a total of 7 hours and 27 minutes.

STS-82 EVA 4

The spacewalk began at 02/17/1997 03:45 UTC and ended at 02/17/1997 10:19 UTC on the Hubble Space Telescope (LEO) for a total of 6 hours and 34 minutes.

STS-97 EVA 1

The spacewalk began at 12/03/2000 18:35 UTC and ended at 12/04/2000 02:08 UTC on the International Space Station for a total of 7 hours and 33 minutes.

STS-97 EVA 2

The spacewalk began at 12/05/2000 17:21 UTC and ended at 12/05/2000 23:58 UTC on the International Space Station for a total of 6 hours and 37 minutes.

STS-97 EVA 3

The spacewalk began at 12/07/2000 16:13 UTC and ended at 12/07/2000 21:23 UTC on the International Space Station for a total of 5 hours and 10 minutes.

STS-115 EVA 1

The spacewalk began at 09/12/2006 10:17 UTC and ended at 09/12/2006 15:43 UTC on the International Space Station for a total of 5 hours and 26 minutes.

STS-115 EVA 3

The spacewalk began at 09/15/2006 10:00 UTC and ended at 09/15/2006 16:42 UTC on the International Space Station for a total of 6 hours and 42 minutes.

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