Rex Walheim flew three Space Shuttle missions, STS-110, STS-122, and STS-135.
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19 Facts About Rex Walheim
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Rex Walheim logged over 566 hours in space, including 36 hours and 23 minutes of spacewalk time.
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Rex Walheim was assigned as mission specialist and flight engineer on STS-135, the final Space Shuttle mission.
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Rex Walheim was born in Redwood City, California, but considers San Carlos, California, his hometown.
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Rex Walheim graduated from San Carlos High School in 1980 and received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984.
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Rex Walheim was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Air Force in May 1984.
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Rex Walheim was transferred to Headquarters Air Force Space Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in August 1989, where he was manager of a program upgrading missile warning radars.
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Rex Walheim was selected for USAF Test Pilot School in 1991, and attended the course at Edwards AFB in California in 1992.
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In January 1996, Rex Walheim became an instructor at USAF Test Pilot School, where he served until he began astronaut training.
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Rex Walheim served as a flight controller and operations engineer at the Johnson Space Center from October 1986 to January 1989.
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Rex Walheim flew three flights, STS-110, STS-122 and STS-135, the final flight of the shuttle, logging over 566 hours in space, including over 36 hours and 23 minutes of EVA time.
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In September 2002, Rex Walheim served as an aquanaut on the joint NASA-NOAA NEEMO 4 expedition, an exploration research mission held in Aquarius, the world's only undersea research laboratory, four miles off shore from Key Largo.
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Rex Walheim conducted two spacewalks to install the S0 truss and reconfigure Canadarm2 for use on S0, spending 14 hours and 15 minutes outside the ISS.
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Rex Walheim served as Mission Specialist 2 and was the flight engineer for STS-122.
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Rex Walheim conducted three spacewalks, totaling 22 hours and 8 minutes.
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Rex Walheim served as Mission Specialist 2 on the final flight of the Space Shuttle, STS-135, a thirteen-day mission to the International Space Station.
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Rex Walheim is married to Margie Dotson, formerly of Villa Park, California.
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