Michael S. Hopkins

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Michael Hopkins
Michael Hopkins
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

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

Commons : Michael Hopkins  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NASA Selects New Astronauts for Future Space Exploration. NASA, June 29, 2009, accessed September 29, 2013 .
  2. NASA And Partners Name Upcoming Space Station Crew Members. NASA, accessed September 29, 2013 .
  3. 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 .
  4. ^ 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).