Name: Thomas, Andrew Country: USA M/F: M Number of Flights: 4

Space Flights Launch Date - Shuttle Landing Date - Shuttle
1. STS-77 May 19, 1996 - Endeavour May 29, 1996 - Endeavour
Space Flights Launch Date - Flight Up Landing Date - Flight Down
2. NASA-7 January 23, 1998 - STS-89 (Endeavour) June 12, 1998 - STS-91 (Discovery)
Space Flights Launch Date - Shuttle Landing Date - Shuttle
3. STS-102 March 8, 2001 - Discovery March 21, 2001 - Discovery
4. STS-114 July 26, 2005 - Discovery August 9, 2005 - Discovery

Space Flights Descriptions
1. STS-77 Spacehab Mission 4
Deployed and retrieved the Spartan 207/Inflatable Antenna Experiment (IAE)
NASA-6
(Backup)
Shuttle-Mir Long Duration Mission 6 (Mir Main Expedition EO-24 Crew)
Andrew Thomas was originally the backup to David Wolf who was the original NASA-7 researcher. When David Wolf was assigned to become the new NASA-6 researcher, Andrew Thomas became the new NASA-7 researcher.
2. NASA-7 Shuttle-Mir Long Duration Mission 7 (Mir Main Expedition EO-24 & EO-25 Crew)
Joined the Mir Main Expedition EO-24 crew on January 24, 1998 from the STS-89 crew
Became a member of the Mir Main Expedition EO-25 crew after the Mir EO-24 crew departed from Mir on February 19, 1998 - Returned to Earth on June 12, 1998 aboard Discovery as part of the STS-91 crew
3. STS-102 ISS Crew Transfer Flight 5A.1
Delivered supplies in the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module - Discovery docked with the International Space Station (ISS) from March 10, 2001 to March 19, 2001.
4. STS-114 ISS Logistics Flight LF-1
Space Shuttle Return to Flight after the Columbia Disaster
Delivered supplies in the Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module - Discovery docked with the International Space Station from July 28, 2005 to August 6, 2005
This flight was originally called ISS Utilization and Logistics Flight ULF-1

Spacewalks - 1
Space Flights Date & Duration Purpose
STS-102 March 12, 2001 International Space Station Assembly - Install a stowage platform for space station parts on Destiny. Attach a spare ammonia coolant pump to the stowage platform. Connect cables put in place for the Lab Cradle Assembly and Rigid Umbilical during first spacewalk. Check a Unity module heater connection. Inspect Floating Potential Probe. Place a brace on the solar arrays to lock them into their latched positions
6 hours 21 minutes

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Shuttle-Mir Program - 1998 / Backup-Crew Space Shuttle Program - 1996
International Space Station Program - Phase II - 2001 / Phase III - 2005

Updated - June 10, 2006