Became the president and CEO of the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum
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Clayton Conrad Anderson is a retired NASA astronaut. Launched on STS-117, he replaced Sunita Williams on June 10, 2007 as a member of the ISS Expedition 15 crew. He is currently an author, a motivational speaker, and a Professor of Practice at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. In 2022, he became the president and CEO of the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum.
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science · Retired NASA astronaut and member of the ISS Expedition 15 crew · military flight engineer · astronaut · engineer · radio operator · aerospace engineer · physicist · also Clayton Anderson, Clayton C. Anderson, Clayton Conrad Anderson, Clay Anderson, Anderson
Born 23 February 1959 · Q447264
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Became the president and CEO of the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum
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Published “Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines” in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles — cited 9,703 times.
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,744 times.
Anderson eventually retired from NASA in January 2013 after serving fifteen years and is now in education.
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Published “A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 9,269 times.
Published “Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 10,812 times.
As a member of the ISS Expedition 15 crew
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And remained on board as a member of the Expedition 16 crew before returning to earth aboard Discovery on mission STS-120 on November 7, 2007
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Anderson, died in December 2007, shortly after his return to Earth.
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Published “Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions” in Ecological Modelling — cited 14,875 times.
Published “Multimodel Inference” in Sociological Methods & Research — cited 10,285 times.
And was issued the call sign KD5PLA by the Federal Communications Commission on August 13, 2001
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Anderson is the first and only astronaut from Nebraska and was widely reported in news media as the astronaut rejected fourteen times by NASA before being accepted in 1998.
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Was named the Chief of the Flight Design Branch
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Anderson was chosen to be supervisor of the MOD Ascent Flight Design Section and, following reorganization, the Flight Design Engineering Office of the Flight Design and Dynamics Division
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Moved to the Mission Operations Directorate (MOD) as a Flight Design Manager, leading the trajectory design team for the Galileo mission to Jupiter (STS-34) while serving as the backup for the Magellan mission to Venu
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Published “Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.” in Psychological Bulletin — cited 33,141 times.
In the Mission Planning and Analysis Division, performing rendezvous and proximity operations trajectory designs for early Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions
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And a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering at Iowa State University in 1983
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Born 1959-02-23.
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Published “Absence of Diffusion in Certain Random Lattices” in Physical Review — cited 11,229 times.
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