We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey CA from 2009 to 2011 as the Smith/McCool NASA Chair Professor. STS-119 was a 12 day mission to the ISS flown during March 2009. Naval Academy in 1972 and was designated a Naval Aviator in November 1974.

Naval Academy in 1972. Phillips has also been awarded the NASA Space Flight Medal NASA DistinguiJohn L. Phillipsd Service Medal the Gagarin Medal and several others. John Lynch Phillips PhD (born April 15 1951) is a NASA astronaut.