Steven Smith

USA

Steven Smith

(Steven Lee Smith)

(Dec 30, 1958)

Astronaut 316

Astronaut of the USA 200

EVA astronaut 108

EVA astronaut of the USA 64

Spaceflights 4

EVAs 7

Spaceflights

No.	Launch	Orbiter	Duration
1st	Sep 30, 1994	Endeavour STS-68	11 d 5 h 46 m 8 s (269 h 46 m 8 s)
2nd	Feb 11, 1997	Discovery STS-82	9 d 23 h 37 m 9 s (239 h 37 m 9 s)
3rd	Dec 20, 1999	Discovery STS-103	7 d 23 h 11 m 34 s (191 h 11 m 34 s)
4th	Apr 08, 2002	Atlantis STS-110 - ISS	10 d 19 h 42 m 38 s (259 h 42 m 38 s)
Cumulative time:			40 d 0 h 17 m 29 s (960 h 17 m 29 s)

EVAs

No.	Date	Orbiter	Duration
1st	Feb 14, 1997	Discovery	6 h 42 m
2nd	Feb 16, 1997	Discovery	7 h 11 m
3rd	Feb 18, 1997	Discovery	5 h 17 m
4th	Dec 22, 1999	Discovery	8 h 15 m
5th	Feb 24, 1997	Discovery	8 h 8 m
6th	Apr 11, 2002	ISS USA	7 h 48 m
7th	Apr 14, 2002	ISS USA	6 h 27 m
Cumulative time:			49 h 48 m

On November 2, 2017, Steven L. Smith concluded his career at NASA.

Smith was selected for the astronaut corps in 1992, having begun his NASA career in 1989 as a payload specialist in the Flight Operations Directorate. He was the first member of the 1992 class to receive a flight assignment and flew the first of his four space missions in 1994 aboard Endeavour STS-68, conducting Earth observations using the Space Radar Laboratory equipment.

In 1997, Smith returned to space aboard the shuttle Discovery STS-82; during the mission, he worked with the Hubble Space Telescope and performed three of the four scheduled spacewalks. In 1999, he flew again on Discovery STS-103, where he was responsible for payload operations and conducted two additional spacewalks.

Smith flew his final mission in 2002 aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-110. During the visit to the International Space Station, he served as the lead extravehicular activity (EVA) specialist, performing two spacewalks and participating in the installation of the station's first truss segment.

Over the course of these four missions, Smith performed seven spacewalks with a total duration of 49 hours and 48 minutes.

Following his final spaceflight, Smith continued to work at NASA in various roles, including as the launch preparation lead for the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) across all five missions of that type, as the European Space Agency liaison for the International Space Station program, and as the deputy director of the program's science division at NASA's Ames Research Center (California).

Smith was born in Phoenix, Arizona, but considers San Jose, California, his hometown. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, as well as two master's degrees—in electrical engineering and business administration—all from Stanford University.