Richard Linnehan, born September 19, 1957 in Lowell, Massachusetts, is a veteran of four space shuttle missions. After receiving a BS in Animal Sciences and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, he completed an internship in exotic animal medicine at the Baltimore Zoo!
Selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1992, his first flight was aboard Columbia (STS-78) as mission specialist June-July 1996. It was a preparation flight for the International Space Station.
Linnehan's second flight was aboard Columbia (STS-90) as mission specialist April-May 1998. The Mammalian Development Team, which I'm sure Linnehan was a part of, experienced an unexpectedly high mortality rate of neonatal rats. Therefore, they had to reprioritize their experiments.
His third flight was aboard Columbia (STS-109) as mission specialist in March 2002. It was a servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope and the last flight of Columbia before it disintegrated the following February upon re-entry.
Linnehan's fourth and final flight was aboard Endeavour (STS-123) as mission specialist in March 2008 to the International Space Station. He performed three EVAs, totaling 21 hours.
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