John L. Phillips
John L. Phillips
John Lynch Phillips, PhDis a NASA astronaut. Phillips is also a Naval Aviator and retired Captain, United States Navy Reserve. Phillips has received numerous awards and special honors. He is a National Merit Scholar, graduated 2nd in his class of 906 people at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1972. Phillips has also been awarded the NASA Space Flight Medal, NASA Distinguished Service Medal, the Gagarin Medal and several others. Phillips has logged over 4,400 flight hours and 250 aircraft carrier...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth15 April 1951
CountryUnited States of America
Hopefully, if you continue studies and your interest in space, we'll see you at NASA in another 10 years.
This will be an important test in detecting recurrence of bladder cancer, ... People who have been treated now require years of expensive follow-up. If that could be avoided by having one negative telomerase test, the test would be worthwhile. Right now we are not able to do that with any other test.
We need to do all that we can to conserve energy in accordance with the request from the governor and in the best interest of those directly affected by the hurricane,
It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for, ... But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.
For me, one of the high points is the internal build up of the space station with new laboratory equipment.
We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.
There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.
Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles.
If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.
In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.
Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars.
I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.
It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.
My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.