Michael S. Hopkins
Michael Hopkins | |
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Country: | United States |
Organization: | NASA |
selected on | June 29, 2009 ( 20th NASA Group ) |
Calls: | 1 space flight |
Begin: | September 25, 2013 |
Landing: | March 11, 2014 |
Time in space: | 166 d, 6 h, 27 min |
EVA inserts: | 2 |
EVA total duration: | 12 h, 58 min |
Space flights | |
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Michael S. Hopkins (* 28 December 1968 in Lebanon , Missouri , USA ) is a Colonel of the US Air Force and NASA - Astronaut . Hopkins was selected to join NASA's 20th group in June 2009 . He was the flight engineer on ISS expeditions 37 and 38 .
education
Michael Scott Hopkins was born in Lebanon, Missouri, and grew up on a farm in Richland , Missouri. After graduating from the School of the Osage High School in Lake of the Ozarks in 1987 , he went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . He graduated from Stanford University with a Masters of Science in aerospace engineering in 1992 .
Astronaut activity
Hopkins was selected by NASA and the US Air Force as an astronaut for training at the Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas . It took off for the ISS on September 25, 2013 with the Soyuz TMA-10M . There he worked for the ISS expeditions 37 and 38 as a flight engineer. The landing took place on March 11, 2014.
In August 2018 he was assigned to the second manned mission of the spacecraft Dragon V2 ( SpaceX Crew-1 ).
Private
Hopkins is married and has two sons. His hobbies include backpacking , camping , skiing , weight lifting , jogging , hockey, and football .
Web links
- Michael S. Hopkins on the NASA website - biography, pictures and videos (English; PDF)
- Space facts: Michael S. Hopkins
Individual evidence
- ^ NASA Selects New Astronauts for Future Space Exploration. NASA, June 29, 2009, accessed September 29, 2013 .
- ↑ NASA And Partners Name Upcoming Space Station Crew Members. NASA, accessed September 29, 2013 .
- ↑ Loren Grush: NASA announces crews for the first flights of SpaceX and Boeing's passenger spacecraft. In: The Verge. Vox Media, August 3, 2018, accessed August 4, 2018 .
- ^ Paul Wood: NASA thinks former UI football player has right stuff. In: Urbana / Champaign News-Gazette. July 28, 2009, archived from the original on July 31, 2009 ; accessed on September 29, 2013 (English).
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SURNAME | Hopkins, Michael S. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hopkins, Michael Scott |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1968 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lebanon (Missouri) , Missouri, USA |