Joseph R. Tanner
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Joseph Richard 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.
Dark Sky, Bright Sun
STS-115 crew portrait with Astronauts Brent W. Jett, Jr. (right) and Christopher J. Ferguson, Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper, Joseph R. (Joe) Tanner, Daniel C. Burbank, Steven G. MacLean and the mission insignia (cropped)STS-115 crew portrait with Astronauts Brent W. Jett, Jr. (right) and Christopher J. Ferguson, Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper, Joseph R. (Joe) Tanner, Daniel C. Burbank, Steven G. MacLean and the mission insignia (cropped)
S82E5342 - STS-082 - Joe Tanner looks out the orbiter windows and take photographs - DPLA - 9cdb78356c5c40072b968d8c72ff0961S82E5342 - STS-082 - Joe Tanner looks out the orbiter windows and take photographs - DPLA - 9cdb78356c5c40072b968d8c72ff0961
S115E07390 - STS-115 - STS-115 Tanner floats in the Node 1 hatch area during Expedition 13 - STS-115 Joint Operations - DPLA - 6a9a8a87f3b19c8c1193c77a6ec501fbS115E07390 - STS-115 - STS-115 Tanner floats in the Node 1 hatch area during Expedition 13 - STS-115 Joint Operations - DPLA - 6a9a8a87f3b19c8c1193c77a6ec501fb
S97E5144 - STS-097 - Expedition One and STS-97 crew pose for portrait - DPLA - 3170bbdc9f886a4fc4e652989e7c378f
S97E5048 - STS-097 - Tanner and Noriega on middeck - DPLA - 31d222e69adef4a0f776d86f17656caaS97E5048 - STS-097 - Tanner and Noriega on middeck - DPLA - 31d222e69adef4a0f776d86f17656caa
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