{"id":1281,"date":"2010-01-15T09:43:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T14:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2017-07-31T10:09:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T14:09:50","slug":"high-altitude-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2010\/01\/high-altitude-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"High Altitude Attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1282\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 245px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Reid_Wiseman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1282\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Reid_Wiseman.jpg\" alt=\"Reid_Wiseman_WSE\" width=\"235\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Reid_Wiseman.jpg 235w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Reid_Wiseman-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Reid Wiseman, MS \u201906, a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, was selected from more than 3,500 applicants to become one of the nine members of NASA\u2019s 2009 Astronaut Class. (Photo courtesy of Reid Wiseman\/NASA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At 34, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/2009_wiseman.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reid Wiseman<\/a>, MS \u201906, has had more medical tests than a roomful of senior citizens\u2014 and this is the way NASA likes it. In order to be accepted into the 2009 astronaut candidate class, he had to pass every known inspection of the human body: CT scan, bone scan, brain scan, MRI, ultrasounds of his entire body (to make sure his organs are in the right places); he saw images of his heart valves and the buildup on his arteries; he had 22 vials of blood drawn. But Wiseman checked out\u2014last August he began training at the Johnson Space Flight Center (JSC), and he\u2019ll be with NASA for the next 15 or 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Educated as a systems engineer (at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and through the Whiting School\u2019s Engineering for Professionals program) and trained by the Navy as a test pilot, Wiseman will spend about 18 months preparing for an assignment on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Space Station<\/a>. Continuously staffed for the last nine years, the football field\u2013sized space station serves as an international research headquarters located in the Earth\u2019s orbit and maintained by astronauts from Russia, the U.S., Canada, and Japan, who live on the station for up to six months at a time.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is for Wiseman to complete candidate training in May 2011. But first he has to master a few things. He\u2019s studying every aspect of the operation of manned space systems\u2014how to make repairs, what parts and tools to use, and what to do if a part breaks. \u201cIf you need another part and it\u2019s not up there, you have to invent a way to fix it,\u201d he says. He and his classmates\u2014there are nine in all\u2014practice working in pressure suits and will train in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neutral_Buoyancy_Laboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">world\u2019s biggest pool<\/a>, located at JSC, simulating weightlessness. They are studying robotics, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Because about half of the station\u2019s staff is Russian, Wiseman\u2019s class will learn the Russian language throughout their training at JSC. \u201cWhen the space shuttle is retired [in a year or two], the only ride to the space station will be on Russian rockets,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Wiseman estimates he\u2019ll get to the orbit by 2018. until then, he\u2019ll be engaged in training and various collateral duties such as work in mission control, as a capsule communicator, or capcom (the person on the radio talking with the astronaut), and in helping to design the newest crew exploration vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The space station serves as a research laboratory for experiments in fields ranging from physics, astronomy, even biology. Some of the experiments focus on the effect of time spent in space on the human body, and, as a long duration crew member, Wiseman can expect to experience some loss of bone density. For the six months that he\u2019s on the station, he\u2019ll orbit Earth every 90 minutes, at 27,000 km\/hour. \u201cThat\u2019s a lot of wear and tear,\u201d says Wiseman. \u201cThings happen with the body when it\u2019s weightless for that long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpace was always in the back of my mind,\u201d he says of his lifelong dream, \u201cand systems engineering made my application [to NASA] more appealing.\u201d Growing up in Maryland, he went to Annapolis every year to watch the Blue Angels, a U.S. Navy precision flying team, and he was able to watch a space shuttle launch from a roadside in Florida. What will he do when his time on the space station is completed? He says, \u201cGo up again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALUMNI MAKING NEWS: Reid Wiseman, MS &#8217;06, joins NASA&#8217;s 2009 astronaut candidate class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-development","issue-winter-2010"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>High Altitude Attitude - JHU Engineering Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2010\/01\/high-altitude-attitude\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"High Altitude Attitude - JHU Engineering Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ALUMNI MAKING NEWS: Reid Wiseman, MS &#039;06, joins NASA&#039;s 2009 astronaut candidate class.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2010\/01\/high-altitude-attitude\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"JHU Engineering Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-01-15T14:43:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-07-31T14:09:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Reid_Wiseman.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Abby Lattes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Abby Lattes\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2010\\\/01\\\/high-altitude-attitude\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2010\\\/01\\\/high-altitude-attitude\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Abby Lattes\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0244393be370fbc3ead8ec26062e9742\"},\"headline\":\"High Altitude Attitude\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-01-15T14:43:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-07-31T14:09:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2010\\\/01\\\/high-altitude-attitude\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":629,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2010\\\/01\\\/high-altitude-attitude\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/Reid_Wiseman.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Research &amp; 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