Christopher E. Gerty

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Christopher E. Gerty
Aerospace engineer
EmployerNASA
Known forAquanaut
TitleOpen Government Analyst, Engineer
SpouseMaureen (Smith) Gerty

Christopher E. Gerty (born October 19, 1975) is an American

Constellation Program.[1] Gerty is an advocate of NASA's Open Government Initiative and is a leading voice on the concept of participatory exploration and collaboration. He has fifteen years of experience working on complex, technology-intense projects at NASA.[2] Gerty served as an aquanaut on the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 13 (NEEMO 13) crew.[1]

Education

Gerty was born on

Metropolitan Life. Gerty has one younger sister.[1][3]

Gerty's interest in

Lake Ronkonkoma, New York. His fifth-grade teacher led his class through the investigation of the Challenger accident in 1986. Gerty's class learned not only about the causes of the accident, but what the Space Shuttle did and why humans traveled in space. To the ten-year-old Gerty, spaceflight seemed like a necessary and noble thing for humans to do, even if there were some risks.[1]

After that experience in elementary school Gerty dreamed of being an astronaut when he grew up. Gerty attended Hilton High School near Rochester, New York, from 1989 to 1990 and New Paltz High School, New Paltz, New York, from 1991 to 1993. He took up skiing while in Rochester and floor and roller hockey in New Paltz.[1][3]

Gerty attended

pilots and spaceflight procedure writers. When Gerty finished several co-op tours and graduated, he knew he wanted to work for NASA, and accepted a job offer at JSC as a flight controller.[1]

NASA career

The NEEMO 13 Crew: Left to right (rear): Nicholas Patrick, Gerty; front: Satoshi Furukawa, Richard R. Arnold.

Gerty's NASA experience includes positions as Robotics Division Engineering Co-op from 1996 to 1998; Aircraft Operations Co-op Engineer at

spacesuit at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. After "spacewalking" underwater, he had a new appreciation for the difficulty of the construction of the International Space Station (ISS) and the skills of the astronauts who performed ISS construction.[1]

After his time in the EVA group, in 2006 Gerty became a

zero-gravity on the ISS?'"[1]

In August 2007, Gerty served as

Aquarius, the world's only undersea research laboratory. He served as a liaison for the Constellation Program, living underwater for ten days to study the effects of long-duration spaceflight and test lunar and Martian exploration concepts.[1][2][5]
Gerty wrote:

Spacewalks are very analogous to diving in the ocean. In both situations you need a supply of oxygen to breathe, relative control of pressure and temperature, a means of moving around in a three-dimensional environment, and protection from the hazards ... The results [of NEEMO 13] will be used to make us more prepared when it is time to put a few more footprints and tire tracks on the moon, and eventually realize the goal of extending the human race to other planets![1]

Since 2010, Gerty has been an Open Government Analyst at NASA.[4] He has a blog located at http://open.nasa.gov/blog/author/cgerty/.[2]

Personal life

Gerty is married to Maureen (Smith) Gerty of

bicycling, photography, computers, ice hockey, astronomy, camping and traveling.[1][3] He is a member of the American Astronautical Society and has taken part in Random Hacks of Kindness.[4][6]

References

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Gerty, Christopher (2007-07-28). "NASA – Christopher Gerty Constellation Program Aerospace Engineer". NASA. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
  2. ^ a b c Gerty, Chris (2011-08-04). "open.NASA – Chris Gerty Open Government @ Johnson Space Center". NASA. Archived from the original on November 6, 2011. Retrieved August 10, 2011.
  3. ^ a b c d e Gerty, Chris. "NASA Quest > Space Team Online – Meet: Chris Gerty". NASA. Archived from the original on November 11, 2010. Retrieved August 10, 2011.
  4. ^ a b c Gerty, Christopher (2011). "Christopher Gerty". LinkedIn Corporation. Retrieved August 10, 2011.
  5. ^ NASA (2007-07-24). "NASA Announces Next Undersea Exploration Mission Dates and Crew". NASA. Archived from the original on 2012-08-09. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
  6. ^ Indo-Asian News Service (2011-01-14). "Hackers help fight natural disasters too!". NDTV Convergence Limited. Retrieved August 10, 2011.

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