Jeffrey Ashby
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| NASA Astronaut | |
| Nationality | American |
| Status | Employed by Blue Origin |
| Born | Jeffrey Shears Ashby June 16, 1954 (age 62) Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
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Other occupation
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Naval aviator, test pilot |
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University of Idaho, B.S. 1976 University of Tennessee, M.S. 1993 |
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| Rank | Captain, USN |
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Time in space
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27d 16h 19m |
| Selection | 1994 NASA Group 15 |
| Missions | STS-93, STS-100, STS-112 |
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Mission insignia
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| Retirement | June 2008 |
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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. He is a retired Captain in the U.S. Navy. He currently works for Blue Origin as chief of mission assurance.
Jeff Ashby was born June 16, 1954, in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in Evergreen, Colorado, southwest of Denver. He graduated from Evergreen High School in 1972. He attended the University of Idaho, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1976. He later earned a Master of Science degree in Aviation Systems from the University of Tennessee in 1993.
Ashby is a 1986 graduate of the Navy Fighter Weapons School, also known as "TOPGUN", and the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School. As a test pilot in the U.S. Navy, Ashby helped develop the F/A-18 aircraft and flew the aircraft in combat missions as part of Operation Desert Storm and Operation Southern Watch during and after the Gulf War and as part of Operation Continue Hope in Somalia. He was the Navy Attack Aviator of the Year in 1991. Ashby commanded a Fighter Squadron stationed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln; in 1994, his squadron was designated the top F/A-18 squadron in the Navy.
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