Sherwood C. Spring

Sherwood Spring
Born
Sherwood Clark Spring

(1944-09-03) September 3, 1944 (age 80)
EducationUnited States Military Academy (BS)
University of Arizona (MS)
Space career
NASA astronaut
RankColonel, USA
Time in space
6d 21h 4m
SelectionNASA Group 9 (1980)
Total EVAs
2
Total EVA time
12h 14m[1]
MissionsSTS-61-B
Mission insignia

Sherwood Clark Spring (born September 3, 1944) is a retired United States Army colonel and former NASA astronaut. Spring is married with two children. He is the father of United States Olympian Justin Spring. Sherwood Spring has logged 165 hours in space, 12 of which were spent conducting spacewalks. Spring has also accumulated 3,500 hours in 25 different military and civilian aircraft; over 1,500 of those hours were spent in jet aircraft.[2]

  1. ^ "Sherwood C. Spring - EVA experience".
  2. ^ "Sherwood C. (Woody) Spring (Colonel, USA, Ret.), NASA Astronaut (Former)" (PDF). NASA. December 1994. Retrieved June 18, 2021.Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.