Sherwood C. Spring
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| NASA Astronaut | |
| Nationality | American |
| Status | Retired |
| Born | Sherwood Clark Spring September 3, 1944 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
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Other occupation
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Test Pilot |
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United States Military Academy, B.S. 1967 University of Arizona, M.S. 1974 |
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| Rank | Colonel, U.S. Army |
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Time in space
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6d 21h 04m |
| Selection | 1980 NASA Group 9 |
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Total EVAs
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2 |
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Total EVA time
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12 hours 14 minutes |
| Missions | STS-61-B |
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Mission insignia
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Sherwood Clark "Woody" Spring (born September 3, 1944) is a retired United States Army colonel and former NASA astronaut. Spring is married with two children. He is the father of United States Olympian Justin Spring. Sherwood Spring has logged 165 hours in space, 12 of which were spent conducting spacewalks. Spring has also accumulated 3,500 hours in 25 different military and civilian aircraft; over 1,500 of those hours were spent in jet aircraft.
He was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout. Spring met his future wife, Debbie Cooper (an elementary school physical education teacher), while they were both students at the University of Arizona.
Graduated from Ponaganset High School (North Scituate, Rhode Island) in 1963; received a Bachelor of Science degree in General Engineering from the United States Military Academy in 1967 and a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Arizona in 1974. Graduated from the United States Naval Test Pilot School in 1976 and the Defense Systems Management College in 1989.
Member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, Association of the United States Army, Association of Space Explorers (ASE), and a lifetime member of the Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy.
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