“Mission Specialist STS-135” Rex J. Walheim Hand Signed 4X6 Color Photo

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Up for auction “Mission Specialist STS-135” Rex J. Walheim Hand Signed 4X6 Color Photo

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Rex Joseph Walheim  (born October 10, 1962) is a retired United States Air Force  officer, engineer  and NASA  astronaut . He flew three Space Shuttle  missions, STS-110 , STS-122 , and STS-135 . Walheim logged over 566 hours in space, including 36 hours and 23 minutes of spacewalk (EVA) time. He was assigned as mission specialist  and flight engineer  on STS-135 , the final Space Shuttle mission. Walheim was born in Redwood City, California , but considers San Carlos , California, his hometown. Walheim graduated from San Carlos High School  in 1980 and received a Bachelor of Science  degree in mechanical engineering  from the University of California, Berkeley  in 1984. He then received a Master of Science  degree in industrial engineering  from the University of Houston  in 1989. Walheim was commissioned as a second lieutenant  in the Air Force  in May 1984. In April 1985 he was assigned to Cavalier Air Force Station  in Cavalier, North Dakota , where he worked as a missile warning operations crew commander. In October 1986, he was reassigned to the Johnson Space Center , in Houston, Texas , where he worked as a mechanical systems flight controller  and was the lead operations engineer for the Space Shuttle  landing gear, brakes, and emergency runway barrier. Walheim was transferred to Headquarters Air Force Space Command  in Colorado Springs, Colorado , in August 1989, where he was manager of a program upgrading missile warning radars. He was selected for USAF Test Pilot School  in 1991, and attended the course at Edwards AFB  in California in 1992. Following graduation, he was assigned to the F-16  Combined Test Force at Edwards where he was a project manager, and then commander of the avionics and armament flight. In January 1996, Walheim became an instructor at USAF Test Pilot School, where he served until he began astronaut training. Walheim served as a flight controller and operations engineer at the Johnson Space Center from October 1986 to January 1989. He was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate in March 1996 and reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. Having completed two years of training and evaluation, he was qualified for flight assignment as a mission specialist. Initially, Walheim was assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Space Station Operations Branch. Walheim flew three flights, STS-110 , STS-122  and STS-135 , the final flight of the shuttle, logging over 566 hours in space, including over 36 hours and 23 minutes of EVA time. After his first flight, he was assigned to the EVA branch, where he served as the astronaut office representative for the Extra Vehicular Mobility Unit (the EVA spacesuit ). In September 2002, Walheim served as an aquanaut  on the joint NASA-NOAA  NEEMO 4  expedition (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations), an exploration research mission held in Aquarius , the world's only undersea research laboratory , four miles off shore from Key Largo . Walheim and his crewmates spent five days saturation diving  from the Aquarius habitat as a space analogue  for working and training under extreme environmental conditions. The mission was delayed due to Hurricane Isadore , forcing National Undersea Research Center  managers to shorten it to an underwater duration of five days. Then, three days into their underwater mission, the crew members were told that Tropical Storm Lili  was headed in their direction and to prepare for an early departure from Aquarius. However, Lili degenerated to the point where it was no longer a threat, so the crew was able to remain the full five days. During the inauguration of Barack Obama  on January 20, 2009, in Washington, D.C. , Walheim marched in the parade carrying an American flag and wearing a prototype of NASA's next generation spacesuit. 

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  • Object Type: Photo
  • Original/Reproduction: Original

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