Joe Tanner Shuttle Astronaut (Joseph Tanner)

[caappy]

Joseph Richard "Joe" Tanner (born January 21, 1950) is an American instructor at the University of Colorado Boulder, a former naval aviator, and a former NASA astronaut. He was born in Danville, Illinois. He is unusual among astronauts as he did not have a background in flight test nor did he earn any advanced academic degrees. Typically those who did not do military flight test have an MD or PhD, if not a masters, whereas Tanner's path to becoming an astronaut followed operational military flying and then into NASA for operational jet training before being selected into the astronaut corps.

Tanner's fourth mission, STS-115 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on September 9, 2006. On September 13, he participated in the 5 hour 26 min spacewalk to connect the P3/4 truss to the ISS. STS-115 returned to Earth on September 21, 2006. A photo that he took during his spacewalk was later listed on Popular Science's photo gallery of the best astronaut selfies.

Missions STS-66, STS-82, STS-97, STS-115

Sent him 2 photos of doing a Space Walk 7 Dec and got them back signed on 21 Dec.. He signed them.."An EVA salute to you"... Joe Tanner STS-115
Extravehicular activity (EVA) is any activity done by an astronaut or cosmonaut outside a spacecraft beyond the Earth's appreciable atmosphere. The term most commonly applies to a spacewalk ..

Photo that was sent https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0 ... t-901&fp=1

Mr Joseph Tanner
800 Nelson Park Ln.
Longmont, CO. 80503-7688

[admin]

Hi caappy

Thank you for your feedback

Would you have a scan of the envelope and picture you received please?
If so, you are in the run for the $10 gift certificate.

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