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Stepping down was a difficult decision for Chris, but with his leadership and assistance to this point, this crew is positioned for success. I’ll still be working hard with the #Starliner team and the @NASA_Astronauts on our crew. "I'm not going anywhere, I'm just not going into space next year. Christopher J. Ferguson (born September 1, 1961) is a retired United States Navy Captain and NASA astronaut. He was replaced by astronaut Michael Fincke. In 2014, he returned to the space station via a Russian Soyuz spacecraft for a 167-day mission, during which he performed four spacewalks.

Veteran NASA astronaut Christopher Ferguson says family commitments mean he won't be taking his seat aboard the Starliner for its first crewed test flight.

While no longer flying, Ferguson, a former Navy F-14 carrier pilot, TOPGUN graduate and test pilot instructor, will continue to play a major role in the Starliner's development, serving as Boeing's director of Mission Integration and Operations as well as Crew Systems. After a brief retrainingperiod he joined the 'Checkmates' of VF-211 where he completed a deployment tothe Western Pacific/Persian Gulf aboard the Nimitz (CVN-68) in supportOperation Southern Watch and contingency operations off the coast of Taiwan.

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News.

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Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offer. "The Boeing team has taken all lessons from our first uncrewed Orbital Flight Test to heart, and is making Starliner one of the safest new crewed spacecraft ever fielded. NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in June 1998, Ferguson reported tothe Johnson Space Center in August 1998. Ferguson made his third and last flight as a NASA astronaut, Commanding STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle. endstream endobj 96 0 obj <>stream

Former shuttle commander Chris Ferguson, seen in the hatch of a commercial crew ship mockup, has taken himself off Boeing's first piloted Starliner test flight, now targeted for launch next summer, to spend more time with his family. He was temporarily assigned to the Naval Test PilotSchool at Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River, Maryland prior to commencingflight school in Pensacola, Florida in November 1984. He returned to Earth after over 11 days on orbit. AWARDS: Navy Strike/Flight Air Medal, NavyCommendation Medal (3), Navy Achievement Medal, and various other serviceawards/citations. He covered 129 space shuttle missions, every interplanetary flight since Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune and scores of commercial and military launches.

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pic.twitter.com/PgdhPqwYQS, — Christopher Ferguson (@Astro_Ferg) October 7, 2020. Our content creates conversations, our voice is the one that matters.

— Nicole Mann (@AstroDuke) October 7, 2020. In August 2018, Ferguson was assigned to the first test flight of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner,[1] although he stepped down from the mission in October 2020. Please refresh the page and try again.

Ferguson was the pilot of STS-115 and commanded STS-126 and STS-135. Ferguson was commissioned from the Navy ROTC program at the University of Pennsylvania.
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On December 9, 2011, he retired from NASA and became director of Crew and Mission Operations for Boeing's Commercial Crew Program.

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