Jeffrey Ashby
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Jeffrey Ashby

Capt Jeffrey S. Ashby
Born 1950s.
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[sibling(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
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Jeffrey Shears "Bones" Ashby (born June 16, 1954) is an American mechanical engineer, and former naval officer and aviator, test pilot and NASA astronaut, a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions.

1954 Born in Dallas, Collin, Texas, USA.
1956 Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, University of Idaho. Joined the US Navy. During his Navy career, he was awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal and four Air Medals.
Defense
Superior
Service
Legion
of
Merit
Distinguished
Flying
Cross
Meritorious
Service
Air
Medal
1983 Master of Science in Aviation Systems, University of Tennessee.
1994 Selected by NASA in Astronauts Group 15. [1]
1999 Flew on Columbia STS-93 as Pilot with Eileen Collins, Michel Tognini, Steven Hawley and Catherine Coleman.
STS-93
2001 Flew on Endeavour STS-100 as Pilot with Kent Rominger, Chris Hadfield, John L. Phillips, Scott Parazynski, Umberto Guidoni and Yuri Lonchakov. Awarded the NASA Space Flight Medal, his first of 2. [2]
STS-100
NASA
Space Flight
2002 Flew on Atlantis STS-112 as Commander with Pamela Melroy, Piers Sellers, Sandra Magnus, David Wolf and Fyodor Yurchikhin. Awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal and the NASA Space Flight Medal, his second of 2. [2]
NASA
Exceptional
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STS-112
NASA
Space Flight
2003 Awarded the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal. [2]

Sources

  1. Wikipedia List of Astronauts, by Year
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Agency Awards Historical Recipient List

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Hi, please change the category "Distinguished Flying Cross" to Category: Distinguished Flying Cross (United States), the existing category on the profile is being changed to the DFC (United Kingdom).

Thanks, regards, Margaret, Categorization project.

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Because someone created his profile and assigned it to Notables without creating any profiles for family members. If you research and create these profiles, we can connect him to them. Thanks.
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