In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.

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.