Andy Thomas

Andrew Sydney Withiel Thomas, AO (an haife shi a ranar 18 ga watan Disamba 1951) masanin injiniya ne na Australiya da Amurka kuma tsohon ɗan saman jannati na NASA. Yana da kasa biyu;  ya zama ɗan ƙasar Amurka a watan Disamba na shekara ta 1986, yana fatan samun shiga cikin shirin ɗan saman jannati na NASA.  Ya auri ɗan'uwansa ɗan saman jannati na NASA Shannon Walker .

 Ilimi 
Thomas ya tafi makarantar firamare ta St Andrews, Adelaide a Walkerville a Kudancin Australia sannan daga baya zuwa Kwalejin St Peter, Adelaide . Bayan makarantar sakandare, ya yi karatu a Jami'ar Adelaide, inda ya sami digiri na BEng tare da girmamawa na farko a 1973 da kuma digiri na PhD a 1978, duka biyu a cikin Injiniyan Injiniya.

Ya bayyana a cikin fitowar 1972 na Kwalejin Injiniya ta Jami'ar Adelaide (AUES) littafin shekara-shekara, Hysteresis . Rubutun da ke ƙasa da hoto na Thomas mai shekaru 21 ya karanta:

Shi ne babban jikan Frederick George Waterhouse, mai kula da farko na Gidan Tarihi na Cibiyar Kudancin Australia, kuma masanin halitta na John McDouall Stuart Expedition 1861-1862. 

 Farkon aiki 
Yayinda yake yaro, yana girma a Fullarton, Adelaide, Thomas yana sha'awar sararin samaniya. Mahaifinsa ya bayyana yadda ya fara gina samfurin rokoki daga katako da filastik. Bayan kammala karatunsa, Thomas ya karɓi tayin daga Lockheed a Atlanta. A shekara ta 1990 ya kasance babban masanin kimiyyar iska na kungiyar. Ya ci gaba da aikinsa a fagen, yana jagorantar manyan mukamai na bincike.

 Ayyukan NASA 
NASA ce ta zaɓi Thomas a watan Maris na shekara ta 1992 kuma ta ba da rahoton ga Cibiyar Johnson Space a watan Agustan shekara ta 1992. A watan Agustan 1993, bayan shekara guda na horo, an nada shi memba na NASA Astronaut Corps kuma ya cancanci aiki a matsayin kwararren kwararre a kan ma'aikatan jirgin sama na Space Shuttle.

 Daraja da kyaututtuka 

 2000: An nada shi Jami'in Order of Australia (AO) "don hidima ga kimiyya da fasaha ta hanyar shirin National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) a matsayin ɗan saman jannati da kuma gudummawa ga binciken ɗan adam na sararin samaniya. "
 2001: Medal na Centenary 
 2018: Rayuwa memba na Ƙungiyar Masana'antar sararin samaniya ta Ostiraliya 
 Ɗaya daga cikin manyan hanyoyi kusa da tashar kasa da kasa da na cikin gida a Filin jirgin saman Adelaide (ADL) ana kiranta Andy Thomas Drive don girmama shi.

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