Correspondence with an astronaut. Biography Preparing for space flight

From: General Susan Helms

Subject: I need your information



Compliment of the season I"ve seen your sweet reply, Thank you for your response. I really appreciate your sincere explanation, I told you about my plan for an investment in your country, and I want the fund to be ensured. Today I am here in a military camp for peacekeeping missions, because of the crisis here. Secondly, I want to move with you to start up a good business venture that will be profit oriented. I appreciate your concern and your willingness so far to help me, the main thing I need from you right now your honesty and trustworthiness, I choose you in this transaction, based on my present status here in the war zone as an Army Lt. General who led the squad.


I want you to know that there is nothing that risk in this transaction, we will do it diplomatically you know your body will know. I want you to understand more about my situation here in the military camp, I can just send you from the office, we do not allow phone use here, we make use of the radio message, and it is only the U.S. soldiers and the people of the United States White House, which can communicate with us through radio message.


Now my dear because of the situation in my job as an Army Lt. General living in the war zone, I need a foreigner who will stand on my behalf and receive the fund and also help me invest it in their country, that's why I decided to make this contact with you, for you to stand on my Moreover, I went into serious discussion with the UN Diplomatic Agent where the consignment is deposited, told the security company to me that in a situation like mine, that the best solution is by soliciting for assistance of a reliable foreigner who can help me receive the broadcast in her place.


I then decided to contact you hoping that with the advanced knowledge we can be able to work together so that if all things works out for us, we can go into life partnership if you wish because I lost my husband since 5 years now. Thought it took me time to make up my mind to contact you and offered you this proposal of mine. It is because of the confidence I have in you that made me to disclose this matter with you, you think I "m afraid of your hand, no body knows what I have, I have to ask you for my safety and security keep it very private OK, I know that God will see us through.


My love, When you received the shipment, so you want to withdraw money from the box to buy a house and a car if we are going to stay together, and also taking 20% ​​?? of the total fund, the remaining balance will be investing capital in your place. My dear that the problem be UN Agent will deliver consignment for you or not, you can not worry about it, The Agent is professional, they have been delivering the shipment to various countries and they have never encountered any problems before, so darling UN Delivery Agent will surely deliver the consignment to you in your position in your country.


my dear, you have your own house? if yes tell me what your house is, you could if you do not have a better house, I "d like you to start looking for a house to buy, so that when the consignment delivered to you, would you buy a house where we will live and stay together, honey I like to stay in the beach side, so please if you would not mind I would like you to buy the house that is near the beach.


Again, my love will also buy at least two cars, I will tell you my choice of car when the time comes. My dear I want us to live very rich so I "m going. Finally, I suggest that if we can go into life partnership as time goes by, which means that the proceedings from the investment in your country shall be shared equally between the both of us because I do not know much about international business and I put all my funds in your care because I want you to be in total control of my funds as soon as the fund is in your country. contact number and your telephone number so that my record shipment box with UN Delivery Agent with your information.

Thank you for your reply to my email, my dear. I really want to establish a long-term relationship with you after I have gone through your profile on the site, and there is a reason why I choose to establish a warm relationship with you. First of all I would like to use this medium to give you a little information about myself with an attachment of my pictures just so you have a great view of me. However, I wanted to bring it to your knowledge, right now. I'm in Libya, in the war zone for the world, doing missions from behind current crisis here in Libya.
I am Helms J. Susan, Lieutenant General, Commander, 14th Air Force (Strategic Air Force), Space Command; and Commander, Joint Functional Component Command for US Outer Space - Strategic Command, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. As the US Air Force operational space component of USSTRATCOM I leads over 20,500 personnel responsible for providing warning missiles, space superiority, situational awareness space, satellite operations, launch operations and space range. As JFCC Space Commander, I also direct all assigned and sub-space USSTRATCOM forces, to order, respond, to local and global space impacts in support of national, USSTRATCOM and combatant commander objectives.
I was commissioned by the US Air Force Academy in 1980. Was serving as an engineer in the weapons division of the F-15 and F-16 and flew as a test engineer. As a test flight engineer, I have also flown 30 types of US and Canadian military aircraft. Also served as a project officer on the CF-18 aircraft as an exchange US Air Force officer with a Canadian aerospace test establishment.
Selected by NASA in January 1990, I became an astronaut in July 1991. On January 13, 1993, then an Air Force major and crew member of the Space Shuttle effort, I became the first US military woman in space. I flew on STS-54 (1993), STS-64 (1994), STS-78 (1996) and STS-101 (2000) and served on board the International space station as a member of the expedition-2 crew (2001). A veteran of five space flights, I also logged 211 days in space, including a spacewalk of 8 hours and 56 minutes, a world record. I commanded the 45th Space Wing at Patrick AFB, Fla. Her staff assignments include tours to the Air Force Space Command headquarters, the Air Education and Training Command, and the United States Strategic Command.
EDUCATION:
1980 Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering, USA Air Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado 1985 Master natural sciences in Aeronautics/Astronautics, Stanford University, California
1988 Flight Test Engineer Course, USAF Pilot Test School, Edwards, California
SUMMARY OF JOINT ASSIGNMENTS:
1. November 2008 - January 2011, Director of Plans and Policy, US Strategic Command, Offutt AFB, Nebraska, as Major General
2. January 2011 - Present, Commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Space, USSTRATCOM, Vandenberg, California, Lieutenant General
MAIN AWARDS AND DIFFERENCES:
Service Medal standard with two oak leaf clusters, defense
Legion of Merit with three clusters of oak leaves
Medal for virtuous service with two clusters of oak leaves
Merit medal with oak leaf cluster
Air Force Commendation Medal
Distinguished Service Medal
Distinguished Leadership MEDAL
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:
Junior Engineer 1983, Air Force Weapons Laboratory
1988 Distinguished Alumnus, US Air Force Test Pilot School and winner of the Jones R.L. for outstanding flight engineer test
1990 Aerospace Engineering Test Creation Commander Commendation, Canadian Forces, Canada
Outstanding Young Houstonian 1996
2002 Woman in Aerospace - Outstanding Achievement Award
2008 Goda Dr. Kurt H. Debus Award for Aerospace Achievement and Contribution to Florida
2008 Thomas D. Empty Space Award for outstanding contributions to space
Inducted into the US Astronaut Hall of Fame 2011

PROMOTION DATES:
Second lieutenant May 28, 1980.
First lieutenant May 28, 1982.
Captain May 28, 1984.
Major October 1, 1991.
Lieutenant Colonel March 1, 1994.
Colonel February 1, 2000.
Brigadier General June 23, 2006
Major General August 2, 2009
Lieutenant General January 21, 2011

My dear, I have told you about me, so I hope to read from you soonest.
Yours in good faith
General Susan.

Officer who was the first U.S. military woman in space (1993) and, with astronaut James Voss, performed the longest (2001).

NASA

Helms received a bachelor's degree in from the in , Colorado, in 1980 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant. From 1980 to 1984 she worked as a weapons separation engineer on the and aircraft at Eglin Air Force Base, . She received a in aeronautics and astronautics from in Stanford, in 1985 and was an assistant professor of aeronautics at the Air Force Academy from 1985 to 1987. She graduated from the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California, in 1988, and, as an exchange officer, she was a test engineer on the CF-18 at the Canadian Forces Base at Cold Lake, Alberta, from 1989 to 1990. She was selected by the (NASA) as an astronaut in 1990.

Helms made five spaceflights, the first on the STS-54 mission (January 13–19, 1993) of the Endeavor, which launched a . Her second spaceflight, STS-64 (September 9–20, 1994) on discovery, carried an experiment that used to measure in 's . The mission of the space shuttle Columbia carried a pressurized module in which the crew performed biological and experiments. Helms was the payload commander of the Spacelab module. The mission lasted nearly 17 days (June 20–July 7, 1996) and at the time was the longest space shuttle flight.

On Helms's fourth spaceflight, STS-101 (May 19–29, 2000) on the space shuttle Atlantis, the crew made repairs to the (ISS) to prepare it for its first crew. She returned to the ISS on the space shuttle discovery's STS-102 mission (launched March 8, 2001). Helms, astronaut James Voss, and cosmonaut Yury Usachyov were the ISS's second resident crew. (Helms, Voss, and Usachyov had also flown together on STS-101.) On March 11 Helms and Voss performed a space walk that made room for a temporary storage module and that lasted 8 hours 56 minutes, making it the longest space walk ever . On July 15 Helms used the ISS’s robotic arm to remove the Quest from the payload bay of the space shuttle Atlantis and attach it to the ISS. Helms returned to Earth on August 22, 2001, on the space shuttle discovery's STS-105 mission. On her five flights, she had spent a total of nearly 211 days in space.

Helms left NASA in 2002 to return to the Air Force, where she was named chief of the space superiority division of the Space Command in Colorado Springs. From 2004 to 2005 she was vice commander of the 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida. The next year she became a deputy director at the Air Education and Training Command at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. In 2006 she returned to the 45th Space Wing as commander. Two years later Helms became director of plans and policy at the U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, and in 2009 she reached the rank of major general. In 2011 she was promoted to lieutenant general and became commander of both the 14th Air Force of the Air Force Space Command and the Joint Functional Component Command for Space at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. In 2013 U.S. Pres.

Susan Jane Helms(born Susan Jane Helms; born 1958) is a NASA astronaut. She made five space shuttle flights: STS-54 (1993, Endeavor), STS-64 (1994, Discovery), STS-78 (1996, Columbia), STS-101 (2000, Atlantis) and STS-102 (2001, "Columbia"), US Air Force Colonel General.

Personal data and education

Susan Helms was born on February 26, 1958 in Charlotte, North Carolina, but considers her native city of Portland, Oregon, where she graduated in 1976 high school. She received her Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1980. She received her Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University, near Palo Alto, California, in 1985.

She loves piano and music events, running, traveling, reading, computers, cooking, cooking. Her parents: father (retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel) Pat and mother Dori Helms, live in Denver, Colorado. She has three siblings..

Before NASA

In 1980, after graduating from the US Air Force Academy, Helms was assigned to Eglin Air Force Base, Florida as an engineer at the Air Force F-16 Weapons Laboratory. In 1982, she became the lead weapons and ammunition engineer for the F-15 aircraft. In 1984, she entered graduate school, in 1985 she received her degree and was assigned as an assistant professor in the department of aeronautics at the United States Air Force Academy. In 1987, she entered the Aviation School of Military Pilots at Edwards Air Force Base, California. After a year of training as a test pilot, Helms, as a US Air Force pilot, was sent to test aerospace equipment at the Canadian Goldlake Air Force Base, located near Alberta, Canada. There she worked as a flight test engineer and military test pilot for the CF-18 aircraft. She was flying and controlling the CF-18 when she received an invitation to become an astronaut from NASA. As a test pilot, Helms flew over 30 different types of US and Canadian military aircraft. Military ranks: Air Force Captain (1989), US Air Force Colonel, US Air Force Major General (2006), US Air Force Lieutenant General (2011).

Preparation for space flights

In January 1990, she was enlisted in the NASA detachment as part of the thirteenth set, an astronaut candidate. I began to study at the General Space Training (OKP) course. Upon completion of the course, in July 1991 she received the qualification of "flight specialist" and was assigned to the NASA Astronaut Office. Helms worked in robotics and was the communications operator for the STS-57, STS-51, STS-58, STS-60, and STS-61 flights.

Space flights

  • First flight - STS-54, shuttle Endeavor. From January 13 to January 19, 1993 as a flight specialist. During the flight, she performed one spacewalk: January 17, 1993 - lasting 4 hours 28 minutes. The main purpose of the flight is to launch the TDRS-F relay satellite into orbit. The flight duration was 5 days 23 hours 39 minutes.
  • Second flight - STS-64, shuttle Discovery. From 9 to 20 September 1994 as a flight specialist. The mission included various experiments, in particular, the LITE experiment on lidar flight tests, experiments with the returning Spartan 201 satellite equipped with astronomical equipment, testing the SAFER astronaut autonomous movement, and the SPIFEX experiment on studying the exhaust of shuttle orientation engines. Made one spacewalk: September 16, 1994 - duration 6 hours 51 minutes. The flight duration was 10 days 22 hours 51 minutes.
  • Third flight - STS-78, shuttle Columbia. From June 20 to July 7, 1996 as a ship commander. The flight program included experiments in space biology and medicine and materials science in the Spacelab laboratory module. The astronauts landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base. The flight duration was 16 days 21 hours 49 minutes.

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Helms, Susan Jane

Susan Jane Helms
Susan Jane Helms
Date and place of birth:
Serial number- 288 (181) Number of flights - 5 Duration of flights - 210 days 23 hours 10 minutes 42 seconds. Number of spacewalks - 1 Duration of work in open space- 8 hours 56 minutes. Status - Former Astronaut NASA
Education and scientific titles:
She was born on February 26, 1958 in Charlotte, North Carolina, but considers Portland, Oregon, to be her hometown.
She graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science degree (Aeronautical Engineering).
She graduated from Parkrose Senior High School in Portland in 1976.
Military service:
She graduated from Stanford University in 1985 with a Master of Science degree (aeronautics/astronautics).
From 1980 to 1982, she served as an F-16 weapons engineer at the Air Force Armament Laboratory at Eglin AFB in Florida (Florida). From 1982 to 1984, she served at the same air base as a senior weapons engineer for the F-15.
After graduating from the US Air Force Academy in 1980 (as part of the first women's group), she entered the US Air Force.
In 1987 - 1988 she completed a year of training at the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base (Edwards AFB) in California (California).
After graduating from Stanford University in 1985, she transferred to the US Air Force Academy as an instructor and assistant professor of aeronautics.
From July 2002 to June 2004 she served at the headquarters of the US Air Force Space Command (HQ USAF Space Command). Served as Commander of the Control Section outer space(Space Control Division) at the Requirements Directorate in Colorado Springs.
From 1989 to 1990 she served at the Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment at Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake in Alberta, where she was a flight test engineer for the CF-18 aircraft.
From March 2005 to May 2006, she served as Deputy Operations Director for Technical Training of the Air Force Training Command.
From August 2004 to February 2005 she served as second in command of the 45th Space Wing.
Military rank:
On June 21, 2006, she assumed the position of commander of the 45th Space Wing, stationed in Florida at Patrick Air Force Base. Thus she became the first woman who was entrusted with the command of a large unit. space forces USA.
US Air Force colonel.
Air Force captain (in 1989).
Space training:
Brigadier General, United States Air Force (2006.06.21).
First flight), the Air Force Medal "For Commendable Service" () and the Air Force Medal "For Merit" (). Awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal (), NASA Distinguished Leadership Medal (), and five NASA Space Flight Medals ().
In January 1990, she was enrolled in the NASA astronaut corps as a flight specialist. Passed full course OKP. Upon graduation in July 1991, she qualified as a flight specialist and was assigned to the NASA Astronaut Division.
Unmarried.
Family status
Running (jogging), hiking, reading books, cooking, computers. Plays the piano..
Hobbies

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