Michael L. Gernhardt

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michael L. Gernhardt
Occupation	Astronaut
Date Of Birth	May 4, 1956(1956-05-04)
Age	68
Birthplace	Mansfield
Country	United States
Birth City	Ohio
Horoscope	Taurus

Michael L. Gernhardt Biography

Michael L. Gernhardt is one of the most popular and richest Astronaut who was born on May 4, 1956 in Mansfield, Ohio, United States. Michael Landon Gernhardt, born May 4, 1956, is a NASA astronaut. He is the manager of the Environmental Physiology Laboratory and the principal investigator of Prebreathe Reduction (PRP), at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.

Gernhardt, a four-flight veteran has spent over 43 days in space. He also did 4 spacewalks that lasted 23 hours and 16 mins. He served as a mission specialist aboard STS-69 in 1995 and STS-83 1997, STS-94 1997, STS-104 2001.

An all-star gathering of legendary American astronauts appeared in Cleveland August 29, 2008 to celebrate NASA’s 50th anniversary.

Gernhardt drove the lunar rover prototype at President Barack Obama’s inaugural parade on January 20, 2009.

The backdrop of the pale blue Earth is astronaut Michael Gernhardt’s spacewalk on the STS69 mission in 1995.

Michael L. Gernhardt Net Worth

Michael L. Gernhardt is one of the richest Astronaut from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael L. Gernhardt 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Gernhardt was a professional diver, project engineer and diver from 1977 to 1984 on various subsea oilfield construction and repair projects. Gernhardt has over 700 deep-sea dives and is proficient in mixed gas, bounce bell, saturation, and air diving. Gernhardt completed a graduate program at the University of Pennsylvania and created a new decompression model that was based on tissue bubble dynamics. Gernhardt then took part in field implementation and development of several new decompression tables. Gernhardt was a Manager and Vice President of Special Projects for Oceaneering International from 1984 to 1988. He was responsible for the creation of a telerobotic system to clean and inspect subsea platforms. He founded Oceaneering Space Systems in 1988. This company was created to transfer subsea technology to the ISS program. Between 1988 and 1992, he worked to develop new robot-compatible tools that could be used for maintenance on Space Station Freedom. He was also involved in the development of portable life support systems, and compression procedures for extra-vehicular activities.

In August 1992, NASA sent Gernhardt to the Johnson Space Center. To date, his technical assignments include:

Gernhardt served as an aquanaut on the first NEEMO (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations) crew aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory in October

2001. In April 2005, he was the commander of the NEEMO 8 mission.

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STS-83 took place from April 4–8, 1997. This was the Microgravity Science Laboratory (MSL-1) Spacelab mission, and it was cut short due to problems with one of the Shuttle’s three fuel cell power generation units. Mission duration was 95 hours and 12 minutes, traveling 1.5 million miles in 63 orbits of the Earth.

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Michael Ranked on the list of most popular Astronaut. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Michael L. Gernhardt celebrates birthday on May 4 of every year.