NASA Astronaut Stephen K. Robinson Leaves Agency

July 03, 2012

Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
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Jay Bolden
Johnson Space Center, Houston
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RELEASE: 12-227

NASA ASTRONAUT STEPHEN K. ROBINSON LEAVES AGENCY

HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson has left the space agency.
Robinson ends his 36-year NASA career as a veteran of three
spacewalks with more than 48 days of spaceflight experience. Robinson
will become a professor at the University of California at Davis in
the fall of 2012. His last day at NASA was June 30.

Robinson began work with NASA as a cooperative education student in
1975 at the agency's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. He
was selected for the astronaut corps in 1995. Robinson served as a
mission specialist on four spaceflights, including space shuttle
missions STS-85 in 1997, STS-95 in 1998, STS-114 in 2005 and STS-130
in 2010. On his second spaceflight, Robinson was one of Sen. John
Glenn's crewmates during Glenn's historic return to space after 36
years.

His third flight was NASA's 2005 return to flight mission after the
loss of shuttle Columbia in February 2003. During STS-114, Robinson
performed the only in-flight spacewalk to repair of a shuttle's
heat-shield. During his final spaceflight, Robinson orchestrated the
spacewalks and the complex robotic installation of the Tranquility
node and cupola onto the International Space Station.

"Steve will be sorely missed by the Astronaut Office," said Janet
Kavandi, director of Flight Crew Operations. "He was a fellow
classmate, and I will personally miss his ever-positive attitude and
smiling face. We wish him the best in his future endeavors, and we
are confident that he will be a positive influence and wonderful
mentor to inquisitive minds at the University of California at
Davis."

Robinson holds a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering and
aeronautical engineering from the University of California at Davis
and a master of science and doctorate in mechanical engineering from
Stanford University.

For Robinson's complete biography, visit:

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/robinson.html


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