Joseph R. Tanner

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Joseph Richard "Joe" Tanner is an American instructor at the University of Colorado Boulder, mechanical engineer, a former naval officer and aviator, and a former NASA astronaut. He was born in Danville, Illinois. He is unusual among astronauts as he did not have a background in flight test nor did he earn any advanced academic degrees. Typically those who did not do military flight test have an M.D. or Ph.D., if not a master's, whereas Tanner's path to becoming an astronaut followed operational military flying and then into NASA for operational jet training before being selected into the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1992, following an unsuccessful application in 1987.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

• Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-115Mission Specialist · SuccessSeptember 9, 2006
• Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-97Mission Specialist · SuccessDecember 1, 2000 · 03:06 UTC
• Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-82Mission Specialist · SuccessFebruary 11, 1997
• Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-66Mission Specialist · SuccessNovember 3, 1994

• STS-115 EVA 36h 42m2006-09-15
• STS-115 EVA 15h 26m2006-09-12
• STS-97 EVA 35h 10m2000-12-07
• STS-97 EVA 26h 37m2000-12-05
• STS-97 EVA 17h 33m2000-12-03
• STS-82 EVA 46h 34m1997-02-17
• STS-82 EVA 27h 27m1997-02-15