Name |
Douglas Harry Wheelock |
Title |
Colonel |
Nickname |
Wheels |
Born |
5 May 1960 |
Binghamton, Broome, New York |
Gender |
Male |
Military Service |
U.S. Army |
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Douglas Harry Wheelock Colonel Douglas Harry Wheelock in uniform. |
Occupation |
Astronaut |
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Doug Wheelock Doug Wheelock Personal Patch |
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Colonel Douglas Harry Wheelock Colonel Douglas Harry Wheelock discusses his role in space shuttle expeditions 24 & 25 to the international space station. Run time 6 minutes and 28 seconds. |
Occupation |
23 Oct 2007 |
Mission Specialist aboard the space shuttle "Discovery". |
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Space-walking repairman. Athens (Alabama) News-Courier, November 2, 2007 page 8A |
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Discovery Returns To Earth. The Galveston County (Texas) Daily News, Thursday, November 7, 2007 section A, page 4. |
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Doug Wheelock Doug Wheelock |
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Doug Boards A T-38. After three days of countdown testing at the Kennedy Space center the crew of STS-120 prepares to return to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. |
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Doug Wheelock - STS-120 launchpad arrival Doug Wheelock |
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Doug Wheelock Doug Wheelock - STS-120 Launch. |
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Doug Wheelock Doug Wheelock - STS-120 as seen from the International Space Station. |
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Discovery STS-120. Discovery STS-120 as seen from the International Space Station. |
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ISS Doug Wheelock - International Space Station as seen from shuttle flight STS-120 |
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Doug Wheelock Spacewalk Doug took part in several planed and unplanned spacewalks. Here he is working to install the "Harmony" module which is a utility module of the ISS. |
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ISS Repair. An unplanned repair took place 3 November 2007. Astronaut Scott Parazynski at the end of the space shuttle orbiter boom had to repair a tear in the ISS solar array. Doug Wheelock also outside of the ship acted as the spotter so the boom operator could get Scott into the proper position. It was Wheelock that took this picture. |
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Doug Wheelock STS-120 Landing. |
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STS-120 Shuttle Crew. STS-120 Shuttle Crew after landing. Doug Wheelock is the fourth from the left. |
Occupation |
1 Jun 2010 |
Served as Flight Engineer on International Space Station Expedition 24. |
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U.S.-Russian crew blasts off to space station. The Victorville (California) Daily Press, Wednesday, June 15. 2010 section B, page 6. |
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Doug Wheelock Doug Wheelock |
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Doug Wheelock Doug Wheelock |
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Soyuz-FG. Soyuz-FG carrier rocket that took Wheelock into space being moved to the launching pad. |
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Soyuz-FG 2. Another view of the Soyuz launch vehicle being prepped for launch. |
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Soyuz TMA-19 Launch. The liftoff of the Soyuz launch vehicle carrying Soyuz TMA-19. This was the Start of International Space Station Expedition 24. |
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Soyuz TMA-19M Soyuz TMA-19M orbiter attached to the International Space Station. |
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Doug Wheelock Exiting the International Space Station. Like his first trip into space this one too required planned and unplanned spacewalks. |
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Doug Wheelock During a Contingency Spacewalk. November 16, 2010. After an ammonia cooling pump failed and caused power to be cut off from parts of the station Doug had to replace the pump. |
Occupation |
25 Sep 2010 |
At the conclusion of International Space Station Expedition 24 Wheelock stayed in space and became the commander of Expedition 25. |
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Doug Wheelock Doug Wheelock |
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Soyuz Orbiter. Soyuz Orbiter as seen from the International Space Station. |
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Expedition 25 Landing. Headed for a touch down near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. Unlike the space shuttle the landing of a Soyuz landing module is anything but graceful. |
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Expedition 25 Landing. Expedition 25 Landing. |
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Soyuz Landing Module. The ground crew works to get the three astronauts out of the Soyuz lander. |
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Wheelock being carried away. Wheelock being carried away from the lander. He was not hurt. This is just standard procedure because the impact of the landing. |
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Russian Recovery Helicopter. Russian Recovery Helicopter. |
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Doug Signs Helicopter. Doug Signs his name on the recovery Helicopter. |
Siblings |
3 siblings |
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Person ID |
I16035 |
Nagel |
Last Modified |
2 Nov 2018 |