BruceE. Melnick is a former astronaut born in 1949.
Melnick received a master’s degree in aeronautical systems from the University of West Florida and a bachelor’s degree in engineering with honors from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
Melnick was formerly the Boeing Company Vice President at KSC for the Payload Ground Operations Contract with NASA, with 1,600 employees.
EXPERIENCE: Upon graduation from the Coast Guard Academy, Melnick was assigned as a deck watch officer aboard the USCG Cutter STEADFAST, homeported in St. Petersburg, Florida.
NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in June 1987, Melnick became an astronaut in August 1988, qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on future Space Shuttle flight crews.
Commander Melnick is retiring from the U.S. Coastguard and will leave NASA in July 1992.
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Upon graduation from the Coast Guard Academy, Melnick was assigned as a deck watch officer aboard the USCG Cutter STEADFAST, home ported in St. Petersburg, Florida.
A veteran of two space flights, Melnick has logged over 300 hours in space.
Melnick performed the duties of Flight Engineer (MS-2) and was the principal Remote Manipulator System (RMS) operator throughout the mission.
Melnick is named vice president at McDonnell Douglas Aerospace
Melnick received his master's degree in aeronautical systems from the University of West Florida and a bachelor's degree in engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
Rene E. Paquette was one of only three NASA employees awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Award by NASA Administrator Dan Goldin at a ceremony held in Washington, DC, on Sept. 24.
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Led by BruceMelnick, the crew also checked out the orbiter's 1 5-meter-long Remote Manipulator System (RMS), or robot arm, that would be used in the capture of INTELSAT.
Then, Melnick, operating the orbiter's robot arm, was able to complete the grapple of the satellite.
The spacewalkers built a pyramid-shaped truss structure and then docked a pallet to it using Endeavour's robot arm operated by BruceMelnick - thus simulating the installation of a crew module node to a space station truss structure.
BRUCEE. Melnick’s organization, a part of the Boeing Integrated Defense Systems group, provides a variety of support services to Boeing programs in the state.
Prior to joining Boeing (McDonnell Douglas at the time), Melnick was Vice President of Shuttle Engineering at United Space Alliance, formerly Lockheed Martin Space Operations, from 1994 to 1996.
Melnick is an avid fisherman and also enjoys golf, hunting and running.
Other well-understood operational/processing scenarios will be specifically exempted from the consecutive day limit deviation requirements because the work profile is such that exceeding the limits is a reasonably expected condition, and the nature of the work is such that the limits can be exceeded without causing excessive employee fatigue.
Interim Policy for KHB 1710.2 (Revision E), Section 3.4e(4) KHB 1710.2 (Revision E), Section 3.4e(4) is changed to read as follows: “Persons in critical positions shall not work in excess of 7 consecutive days without at least 1 full day off.
EED categories are as follows: Category A: EEDs which, by the expenditure of their own energy, or because they initiate a chain of events, may cause injury of death to people or damage to property.
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Melnick is responsible for KSC's payload ground operations involved in processing a wide range of complex, high-cost payloads.
He was also flight engineer on the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-49) in 1992, which made Shuttle history with the most space walks (four), the first three-person space walk and the longest space walk.
Melnick has served in various positions with the U.S. Coast Guard, including operations officer and chief test pilot at the Coast Guard Aircraft Program Office, where he received two distinguished Flying Crosses for noteworthy missions.
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The first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, was a former Navy aviation midshipman; he was a civilian at the time of his lunar flight.
The Coast Guard has had two astronauts, Cmdr. BruceE. Melnick and Lt. Cmdr.
The original space program progressed from single-seat Mercury capsules — which flew both suborbital and orbital missions — to two-seat Gemini orbital spacecraft, and subsequently to the Apollo vehicle, which carried three men, two of whom descended to the Lunar surface while the third flew overhead.
EDUCATION: Melnick received a master’s degree in aeronautical systems from the University of West Florida and a bachelor’s degree in engineering with honors from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
EXPERIENCE: During his 20-year career with the U.S. Coast Guard, Melnick’s assignments included serving as operations officer and chief test pilot at the Coast Guard Aircraft Program Office in Grand Prairie, Texas.
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The first Coast Guardsmen to become a NASA astronaut was Lieutenant Commander BruceE. Melnick, USCG, who was accepted by NASA in 1987.
On 15 June 1905 Revenue First Lieutenant John E. Reinburg became the first officer assigned as an aide to the Commandant on a full-time basis.
Coast Guard attorney LCDR Robert W. Bruce, Jr., became the first member of the armed forces to argue a case before the Supreme Court in uniform when he represented the Coast Guard in Solorio vs. United States on 24 February 1987.
January-November, 1983 - The Infrared Astronomical Satellite finds new comets, asteroids, galaxies, and a dust ring around the star Vega that may be new planets.
February 3, 1984 - Bruce McCandless takes the first untethered space walk using MMU from the space shuttle Challenger (STS-41B).
Crew: Daniel C. Brandenstein, Kevin P. Chilton, Richard J. Hieb, BruceE. Melnick, Pierre J. Thout, Kathryn C. Thornton, and Thomas D. Akers.
Owen K. Garriot, Edward G. Gibson jr., Duane E. Graveline, Joseph P. Kerwin, Curtis F. Michel, Harrison H. Schmitt.
Story Musgrave, Brian T. O'leary, Robert A. Parker, William E. Thornton.
Jerome Apt, Michael A. baker, Robert D. Cabana, Brian Duffy, Charles D. Gemar, Linda M. Godwin, Terence T. Henricks, Richard J. Hieb, Tamara E. Jernigan, Carl J. Meade, Stephen S. Oswald, Stephen D. Thorne, Pierre J. Thout.
John E. Blaha (STS-29) MS Manley L. "Sonny" Carter MS Story F. Musgrave (STS-6, 51F) MS Kathryn C. Thornton
Roberd D. Cabanna MS BruceE. Melnick MS William M. Shepherd (STS-27) MS Thomas D. Akers Stand-by crew Loren J. Shriver James D. Wetherbee David C. Hilmers
Kevin P. Chilton MS Richard J. Hieb (STS-39) MS BruceE. Melnick (STS-41) MS Pierre J. Thuot (STS-36) MS Kathryn C. Thornton (STS-33) MS Thomas D. Akers (STS-41)
47th Space Shuttle Mission 1st Flight of Endeavour Crew: Daniel C. Brandenstein, Commander Kevin P. Chilton, Pilot BruceE. Melnick, Mission Specialist Thomas D. Akers, Mission Specialist Richard J. Hieb, Mission Specialist Kathryn C. Thornton, Mission Specialist Pierre J. Thuot, Mission Specialist
In addition to being the first flight of Endeavour, other important "firsts" occurred during the mission.
In addition, astronauts attached a live rocket motor to an orbiting satellite for the first time.
Brandenstein, Daniel C. Chilton, Kevin P. Hieb, Richard J. Melnick, BruceE. Thuot, Pierre J. Thornton, Kathryn C. Akers, Thomas D. First flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour; retrieved Intelsat VI Columbia (STS-50)
From here on, defining spaceflight gets very complicated, with travellers launched by one nation and returning in another's ship.
Akers, Thomas D. Walz, Carl E. Blaha, John E. landed with STS-81
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Celebrate with us the 25th Anniversary of the Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration (CIEC).
Guest speakers will be Dr. John A. Weese, President of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and Dr. Frank E. Burris from the University of California at Los Angeles.
A special recognition card and lapel pin will be provided to all attendees.
36th Space Shuttle Mission 11th Flight of Discovery Crew: Richard N. Richards, Commander Robert D. Cabana, Pilot William M. Shepherd, Mission Specialist BruceE. Melnick, Mission Specialist Thomas D. Akers, Mission Specialist
The Ulysses, a European Space Agency spacecraft designed to explore the polar regions of the sun, was deployed.
For the first time, an Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) booster and a payload-specific Payload Assist Module-S (PAM-S) booster were combined on one spacecraft to send Ulysses toward the sun.