John L. Phillips
John Lynch Phillips is an American naval aviator, physicist, geophysicist, and retired NASA astronaut. His record spans shuttle assembly work, long-duration ISS service, and science-heavy pre-NASA research.
- Born
- April 15, 1951
- Died
- N/A
- Birthplace
- Fort Belvoir, Virginia,United States
Flights
3
Spacewalks
1
EVA time
4 hours, 58 minutes
In space
203 days, 17 hours, 23 minutes
Bio
Phillips graduated from the United States Naval Academy, earned a master's degree from the University of West Florida, and completed graduate study in geophysics and space physics at UCLA. Before NASA he served in the Navy and later worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
His flights were STS-100, Soyuz TMA-6 for 11, and STS-119. Expedition 11 belongs inside the Soyuz TMA-6 flight card because the launch-and-return vehicle is the actual spaceflight record.
Phillips helped install Canadarm2 on STS-100, lived aboard the ISS during Expedition 11, and returned to station assembly on STS-119 when Discovery delivered the final starboard truss segment.