Carl E. Walz

Born

September 6, 1955, Cleveland (Cuyahoga County) source

Also known as

Carl E. Walz, Carl Walz

Known as

Aviation Space, Military, Science Engineering

Carl Walz was born in Cleveland in 1955 and educated entirely in northeast Ohio: Charles F. Brush High School in Lyndhurst (1973), a summa cum laude physics degree from Kent State (1977) and a master's in solid-state physics from John Carroll University (1979). He joined the Air Force as a physicist analysing radioactive samples for the Atomic Energy Detection System, then became a flight test engineer on the F-16 at Edwards Air Force Base and flight test manager at Detachment 3 of the Air Force Flight Test Center. NASA selected him in January 1990. He flew on STS-51 (1993), with a seven-hour spacewalk, STS-65 (1994), then the longest shuttle flight, and STS-79 (1996) to Mir, and spent 196 days on the International Space Station as an Expedition 4 flight engineer in 2001-2002, setting a U.S. spaceflight endurance record with Dan Bursch. He was lead singer of Max Q, the astronaut rock band, and was inducted into the Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame. He retired from NASA in December 2008 and moved to Orbital Sciences, where he ran human spaceflight operations for its station cargo flights.

• Cleveland (1955)
  birthplace Cuyahoga County · source
• Lyndhurst (to 1973)
  Charles F. Brush High School, class of 1973 Cuyahoga County · source
• Kent (to 1977)
  B.S. in physics, summa cum laude, Kent State University; Distinguished Alumnus Award 1997 Portage County · source
• University Heights (to 1979)
  M.S. in solid-state physics, John Carroll University, 1979; JCU Alumni Award 2002 Cuyahoga County · source

1. 1955 Born in Cleveland on 6 September. source
2. 1973 Graduated from Charles F. Brush High School in Lyndhurst. source
3. 1977 Graduated summa cum laude from Kent State University with a B.S. in physics. source
4. 1979 Received an M.S. in solid-state physics from John Carroll University and began three years analysing radioactive samples from the Atomic Energy Detection System at McClellan Air Force Base, California. source
5. 1983 Graduated as a distinguished graduate from the USAF Test Pilot School, Class 83A, as a flight test engineer. source
6. 1984 Became flight test engineer with the F-16 Combined Test Force at Edwards Air Force Base, working on F-16C avionics and armament until 1987. source
7. 1987 Became flight test manager at Detachment 3, Air Force Flight Test Center, until June 1990. source
8. 1990 Selected by NASA in January. source
9. 1993 Flew on STS-51 (Discovery), 12-22 September, which deployed the ACTS and SPAS satellites; made a 7-hour spacewalk testing tools for the first Hubble servicing mission. source
10. 1994 Flew as orbiter flight engineer on STS-65 (Columbia), 8-23 July, the IML-2 Spacelab mission, which set a new shuttle flight duration record. source
11. 1996 Flew on STS-79 (Atlantis), 16-26 September, which docked with Mir, exchanged NASA long-duration crew members and carried the first double Spacehab module. source
12. 1997 Received Kent State University's Distinguished Alumnus Award. source
13. 2001 Launched on 5 December aboard Endeavour (STS-108) as flight engineer of ISS Expedition 4, docking with the station on 7 December. source
14. 2002 Made two spacewalks from the station, one with Yury Onufrienko in a Russian Orlan suit (14-15 January) and one with Dan Bursch in a U.S. suit (20 February). source
15. 2002 Landed at Edwards Air Force Base aboard Endeavour (STS-111) on 19 June after 196 days in space, with Bursch setting a U.S. endurance record that passed Shannon Lucid's 188 days. source
16. 2003 Received the National Aeronautic Association's Gagarin Award. source
17. 2008 Retired from NASA on 5 December after serving as director of the Advanced Capabilities Division in the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. source
18. 2008 Joined Orbital Sciences Corporation as vice president for human spaceflight operations, responsible for cargo and mission operations for the Commercial Resupply Services programme, until 2015. source

• Born: Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Cleveland · Cuyahoga County
• Connected: Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Cleveland · Cuyahoga County
• Connected: Lyndhurst, Cuyahoga County Lyndhurst · Cuyahoga County
• Connected: Kent, Portage County Kent · Portage County
• Connected: University Heights, Cuyahoga County University Heights · Cuyahoga County

• NASA Biographical Data: Carl E. Walz (Colonel, USAF, Ret.), NASA astronaut (former) 2008, NASA Johnson Space Center

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_E._Walz
• https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/walz_carl.pdf
• https://spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/walz_carl.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_4
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Q_(astronaut_band)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F._Brush_High_School
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_University
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carroll_University
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Walz.jpg

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