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  Daniel W. Bursch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daniel W. Bursch (CAPTAIN, USN) (born July 25, 1957) is a former NASA astronaut.
Bursch graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1979, and was designated a naval flight officer in April 1980 at Pensacola, Florida.
In April 1987, Bursch was assigned to the Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Group 1, as Strike Operations Officer, making deployments to the Indian Ocean aboard the USS Long Beach and the USS Midway.
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 Daniel W. Bursch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After initial training as an A-6E Intruder bombardier/navigator (B/N), he reported to Attack Squadron 34 in January 1981, and deployed to the Mediterranean aboard the USS John F. Kennedy, and to the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans aboard the USS America.
During a 6-1/2 month stay aboard the Space Station, the Expedition 4 crew of three (two American astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut) performed flight tests of the station hardware, conducted internal and external maintenance tasks, and developed the capability of the station to support the addition of science experiments.
Wearing the Russian Orlan spacesuit, Bursch logged 11 hours and 48 minutes of EVA time in two separate spacewalks.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daniel_W._Bursch   (1029 words)

  
 Expedition 4 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daniel W. Bursch (5), Flight Engineer - U.S.A. Carl E. Walz (4), Flight Engineer - U.S.A. (1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission.
Daniel Bursch: blue stripes (Spacewalk 2), solid white suit (Spacewalk 3)
Walz and Bursch tested the airlock and prepared for the four spacewalks that will be performed during STS-110 in April.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Expedition_4   (553 words)

  
 Daniel Bursch
Dan Bursch is an American astronaut who was born on July 25, 1957 in Pennsylvania.
Before he became an astronaut, Bursch was a pilot for the Navy.
Bursch studied the Earth's environment aboard the Space Radar Lab-2 in 1994.
www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/people/astronauts/bursch.html&edu=high   (137 words)

  
 Out of Space : Monterey County Weekly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Bursch, 46, is a veteran of four space flights who has logged more than 227 days in space.
Today Bursch is on the ground, sitting in the sun on a bench at the Naval Postgraduate School, where he’s serving a two-year assignment as an instructor in the Space Systems Academic Group.
Bursch compares a shuttle mission, which usually runs about 10 days, to a sprint, and a space station mission to a marathons.
www.montereycountyweekly.com /issues/Issue.05-06-2004/831/Article.831   (752 words)

  
 Daniel W. Bursch
Daniel W. Bursch (CAPTAIN, USN) (born July 25, 1957) is a NASA astronaut.
EXPERIENCE: Bursch graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1979, and was designated a naval flight officer in April 1980 at Pensacola, Florida.
During a 6-1/2 month stay aboard the Space Station, the Expedition-4 crew of three (two American astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut) performed flight tests of the station hardware, conducted internal and external maintenance tasks, and developed the capability of the station to support the addition of science experiments.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/daniel_w__bursch   (1075 words)

  
 News-Star OnlineWorld News in Brief 05/28/02
In this image from television the crew of the international space station, astronaut Daniel Bursch, left, cosmonaut Yuri Onufrienko and astronaut Carl Walz talk to the crew of the space shuttle Columbia March 10.
After six months aboard the international space station, an exceptionally long time by NASA standards, astronauts Daniel Bursch and Carl Walz and cosmonaut Yuri Onufrienko are more than ready to return to their home planet and savor Earth's summer delights.
Bursch and Walz, meanwhile, have been talking for months about their craving for pizza and sodas, and how much they miss their families.
www.onlineshawnee.com /stories/052802/New_16.shtml   (1662 words)

  
 Events
On April 17th, 2003 NASA astronaut Daniel Bursch - a veteran of four space flights who has logged more than 227 days in space - gave a well attended presentation at Hartnell College.
U.S. Navy captain, Bursch, 45, discussed his experiences as an astronaut and gave a detailed slideshow of his recent missions in space.
Bursch is the winner of several honors, including NASA Space Flight Medals, the Navy Commendation Medal and the Navy Achievement Medal.
www.hartnell.cc.ca.us /news/events/astronaut.html   (178 words)

  
 Daniel Bursch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
EXPERIENCE: Bursch graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1979, and was designated a naval flight officer in April 1980 atPensacola, Florida.
In April 1987, Bursch was assigned to the Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Group 1, as Strike Operations Officer,making deployments to the Indian Ocean aboard the USS Long Beach and the USS Midway.
In January 2003, Bursch reported to the Naval Postgraduate School inMonterey, CA for a two year assignment as an instructor in the Space Systems Academic Group.
www.therfcc.org /daniel-bursch-268888.html   (950 words)

  
 Search. : Monterey County Weekly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Pictured: NPS in Space: Clockwise from Left: Eugene Cernan (Class of ''64) in the Valley of Taurus Littrow, the Moon; Daniel Bursch (''91), who heads to the International Space Station this week; the Shuttle Endeavour; Brett Jett (''89) and William Shepard aboard the Space Station; Jeff Williams (''87) outside the Space Station.
Bursch, Kelly and the rest of the current Endeavour crew will likely hear that welcoming bell in early December.
Bursch was in fact selected for NASA''s astronaut program before he had finished his degree work at NPS.
www.montereycountyweekly.com /articles/7321   (971 words)

  
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Bursch said Expedition Two flight engineer James Voss explained handover as the exchange of three sets of notes between the two crews.
Bursch, a member of the international space station's next crew, will not see his family again until he returns to Earth in May. "Good morning, Houston, and good morning to Robin's second grade class and Ms.
Daniel Tani also will assist, operating the Canadian space vision system to verify the module's exact position and orientation at various points in the berthing procedure.
www.cbsnews.com /network/news/space/STS-108_Archive.txt   (19347 words)

  
 John F. Kennedy Space Center - Welcome to the Mission and Crew Briefing Page
Along with Daniel Tani, she will be one of two space walkers on this mission.
Daniel Bursch will fly aboard Endeavour as a member of the Expedition Four crew.
Bursch, shown here in preflight training, was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, but considers Vestal, New York, to be his hometown.
www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov /kscpao/briefing/sts108/mission.htm   (2322 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Profiles of the 7 shuttle astronauts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Daniel Tani takes pleasure and pride in telling his unique story: His Japanese-American parents were interned during World War II out and now their youngest child is flying on the space shuttle.
Daniel Bursch says it will be tough being away from his four children for half a year, especially with so many little ones at home.
When his bosses approached him about a long space station mission, Bursch took a little while to decide because of all the Russian training that was required and time away from home.
www.usatoday.com /news/science/astro/2001-12-05-astronaut-profiles.htm   (1245 words)

  
 Astronaut Daniel W. Bursch leaves NASA
Bursch, a U.S. Navy Captain, is a veteran of four space flights.
In 2002, Bursch and Walz made the longest U.S. space flight to date, completing 196 days in space aboard the International Space Station on Expedition 4.
Bursch flew to the Station aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-108 and returned to Earth on STS-111.
www.archivum.info /sci.space.shuttle/2005-06/msg00151.html   (271 words)

  
 NWI.com on TownNews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Space station astronaut Daniel Bursch was so excited to see his ride home that he rang the ship's bell and announced the shuttle's arrival seven minutes early.
Bursch, Walz and Yuri Onufrienko, their Russian commander, moved into the space station in early December and did not expect to stay so long.
By the time Bursch, Walz and Onufrienko return to Earth aboard Endeavour on June 17, they will have spent 194 days in space -- a U.S. record.
nwitimes.com /articles/2002/06/08/export24458.eml   (399 words)

  
 Press Releases
NASA astronaut Daniel Bursch - a veteran of four space flights who has logged more than 227 days in space - will speak at Hartnell College on Thursday, April 22, at 11 a.m.
Bursch's presentation is part of Hartnell's annual Physics Olympics, a one-day competition for about 125 physics students from Hartnell and five local high schools.
Early in his career, Bursch attended the U.S. Naval Academy with Joe Welch, a Naval Postgraduate School instructor and Hartnell computer science instructor, who invited Burch to speak at Hartnell.
www.hartnell.cc.ca.us /news/press_releases/04_06_2004.html   (347 words)

  
 1-language.com - Cutting-edge ESL Listening Center for learning English!
Astronaut Bursch was chosen to live on the space station crew because he had spent almost three-thousand flight hours in more than thirty-five different aircraft.
Daniel Bursch is an officer in the United States Navy.
Daniel Bursch wrote in detail of the tasks he performed each day.
www.1-language.com /eslnews/explore020703.htm   (1484 words)

  
 CBSNews.com: Print This Story
Carl Walz and Daniel Bursch emerged early from NASA's Quest air lock at the international space station, nearly 250 miles above the Pacific.
NASA wanted Walz and Bursch to exit from this air lock, as opposed to one on the Russian side of the space station, to ensure its performance for critical assembly spacewalks by shuttle astronauts in April.
The morning excursion had Walz and Bursch hooking up electrical cables, checking dents in radiators from space debris, and gathering tools for the shuttle astronauts who will install large construction framework in April.
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 Bursch
His parents, Dudley and Betsy Bursch, reside in Stuart, Florida.
A veteran of three space flights, Bursch has logged over 746 hours in space.
Bursch is assigned as a crew representative to the International Space Station.
www.friends-partners.org /partners/mwade/astros/bursch.htm   (939 words)

  
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So it will be quite a bit different task than moving the airlock around." At various times during the spacewalks, she said, "we put the arm in all different kinds of configurations, wrapped around the zenith side and the nadir side of the lab and often with really tight clearances.
Ochoa and Bursch, meanwhile, plan to put the station's robot arm through its paces to make sure the Canadian-built crane will be ready for action Thursday, when it will be used to attach a 27,000-pound truss to the station.
Expedition 4 commander Yury Onufrienko and NASA astronauts Daniel Bursch and Walz were launched to the station Dec. 5.
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 Spaceflight Now | STS-111 | Long-duration astronauts need people skills
Bursch, Carl Walz and Expedition 4 commander Yuri Onufrienko were launched to the station Dec. 5.
They originally planned to return to Earth in May, but their flight was extended a month and a half to give ground crews time to develop plans to replace a faulty joint in the station's robot arm.
Bursch said the biggest challenge facing astronauts on long-duration voyages is psychological, not physical deterioration.
spaceflightnow.com /station/sts111/020612crew   (839 words)

  
 HoustonChronicle.com - Grandfather team bolts girder to space station
Bursch and his orbiting companions had barbecued beef on the menu, with country and western music for entertainment, on the eve of Spacewalk No. 2.
Before the shuttle crew arrived, Bursch, Carl Walz and their Russian commander, Yuri Onufrienko, had taken up a new sport.
Bursch said the space station's movie collection includes all of the "Alien" films.
www.chron.com /cs/CDA/story.hts/space/1365402   (461 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Station Astronaut Misses Simple Pleasures Amid 'Incredible Adventure'
At the same time, though, outpost flight engineer Daniel Bursch already misses some of the more simple pleasures on Earth -- such as being rousted from bed by his kids or taking a breath of fresh air on a crisp winter morning.
A married father of four, Bursch boarded the station in December along with Expedition Four commander Yuri Onufrienko and fellow flight engineer Carl Walz.
Bursch will be watching on from inside the station next Monday when Onufrienko and Walz venture outside the outpost on a spacewalk primarily aimed at moving a cargo boom into position on the exterior of the station's Russian airlock.
space.com /missionlaunches/exp4_update_020110.html   (884 words)

  
 CNN - Content   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Bursch, 44, is a Navy captain and a former test pilot that has flown 35 different kinds of aircraft.
The Naval Academy graduate will serve as medic and coordinate communications.
The NASA astronaut has flown on three prior shuttle flights.
cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /interactive/space/0112/mission.guide.STS-108/crew/bursch.html   (40 words)

  
 ISS Spacewalks : 2001 - present (Quest Airlock)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
This was the first spacewalk staged from the Quest airlock after two spacewalks staged from the space shuttle Atlantis on July 14, 2001 and July 17, 2001.
Bursch and Walz tested the Quest Airlock and performed "get-ahead" tasks for the upcoming STS-110 mission.
Two other spacewalks were performed by the ISS Crew 4 from the Pirs Docking Compartment on January 14, 2002 and January 25, 2002.
pages.prodigy.net /pxkb94ars/Spacewalks/ISS_Quest_Spacewalks.htm   (1070 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Americans in space climb milestone list   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Former space station residents Daniel Bursch and Carl Walz, living now aboard the docked shuttle Endeavour, sailed into the history books late Tuesday night.
Bursch, Walz and their Russian commander, Yuri Onufrienko, nodded their heads.
On Wednesday, Bursch, a Navy captain, said his mission was a lot like a naval deployment, "only the biggest difference was never getting out of your stateroom for six months."
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2002/06/12/shuttle.htm   (615 words)

  
 NASA - GRC News Release 02-075
During their visit to Glenn, Walz and Bursch will meet with teams from the Space Directorate to review hardware and experiment performance and results.
As part of their trip, Walz and Bursch will be available to speak with news media at 1 p.m.
The Expedition Four crew of three (Walz, Bursch, and Russian Cosmonaut Yury Onufrienko) launched on December 5, 2001 aboard STS-108 and docked with the International Space Station on December 7, 2001.
www.nasa.gov /lb/centers/glenn/news/pressrel/2002/02-075.html   (263 words)

  
 Bursch - Bursch Mufflers | porsche performance mufflers, exhaust tubes and   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
US space marathoner Dan Bursch declares the long separation from his young family Bursch, Walz and Onufrienko blasted off for the space station on Dec.
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He has made three spaceflights, spending over 746 In 1993, Bursch flew aboard shuttle Discovery on a 10-day mission.
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 Bursch
Gorie, Kelley, Godwin, Tani, Onufrikeno, Bursch, Walz STS-108 flew the UF-1 Utilization Flight mission to the International Space Station.
The shuttle would deliver the Expedition-4 crew of Onufrikeno, Bursch, and Walz to the station and return the Expedition-3 crew to earth.
In addition to the crew swap, UF-1 brought supplies to the Station aboard the Raffaello module, and Godwin and Tani conducted a spacewalk to add thermal blankets to the gimbals on the Station's solar arrays.
www.astronautix.com /astros/bursch.htm   (4066 words)

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