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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Possibly Driftwood
- Are They Mental?
- Is Your Loved One Mental?
- Admiralty
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Syracuse, New York, USA
Known for
- Zero Gravity: Life on the International Space Station — Self2022
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 42
- Total plays
- 66
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2
· 2012 · cited 53,980x
- Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks
· 1998 · cited 34,106x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,645x
- HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements
· 2015 · cited 22,029x
- Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome
· 2009 · cited 19,934x
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Key facts
- Born
- Steven Ray Swanson , ( 1960-12-03 ) December 3, 1960 (age 65) , Syracuse, New York , U.S.
- Education
- University of Colorado Boulder ( BS ), Florida Atlantic University ( MS ), Texas A&M University ( PhD )
- Time in space
- 195 days, 20 hours, 45 minutes
- Selection
- NASA Group 17 (1998)
- Total eva time
- 27 hours, 58 minutes
- Missions
- STS-117 STS-119 Soyuz TMA-12M ( Expedition 39 / 40 )
- Fields
- Computer science
- Thesis
- A Method and Implementation for Incorporating Heuristic Knowledge into a State Estimator through the Use of a Fuzzy Model (1998)
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
~3 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Steven Roy Swanson (born December 3, 1960, in Syracuse, New York) is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut. Swanson has flown two shuttle flights, STS-117 and STS-119, and one Soyuz flight, TMA-12M. All of the flights were to the International Space Station. He has logged over 195 days in space and completed five spacewalks totaling 27 hours and 58 minutes. Swanson has served in other roles at NASA, such as a CAPCOM for both International Space Station and Space Shuttle missions. His awards and honors include the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal and the JSC Certificate of Accommodation. Prior to becoming a NASA astronaut, Swanson worked for GTE in Phoenix, Arizona, as a software engineer. He is married and has three children. Steve claims he had the first ever Instagram posted from space.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Steven Swanson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.