Greg Harbaugh
BS aeronautical and astronautical engineering ’78
Born: 1956
Missions: STS-39, 54, 71, 82
A veteran of four space shuttle missions, Gregory Harbaugh performed three spacewalks and logged a total of 818 hours in space during his NASA career.
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After becoming an astronaut in 1988, Harbaugh completed his first spaceflight in 1991 aboard space shuttle Discovery for STS-39, which conducted research for the Strategic Defense Initiative.
Harbaugh did a 4-hour, 28-minute spacewalk in 1993 as a flight engineer on STS-54, which deployed a NASA tracking and data relay satellite. In 1995, he also was responsible for the in-flight operation of the docking system aboard space shuttle Atlantis for STS-71, the first docking with the Russian space station Mir.
In 1997, Harbaugh flew aboard space shuttle Discovery for STS-82, where crew members did upgrades and repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope. On this mission, he participated in two spacewalks that totaled 14 hours, 1 minute to help install new spectrometers and eight replacement instruments. Afterward, the Hubble Space Telescope was redeployed and boosted to its highest orbit ever.
After having spent 18 hours and 29 minutes on extravehicular activities during his missions, Harbaugh served as manager of NASA’s Extravehicular Activity Project Office from 1997-2001.
