Randolph Bresnik

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Randolph Bresnik
Randolph Bresnik
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on May 6, 2004
( 19th NASA Group )
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		November 16, 2009
Landing of the
last space flight: 		December 14, 2017
Time in space: 149d 12h 12min
EVA inserts: 4th
EVA total duration: 25h 11min
Space flights

Randolph James "Randy" Bresnik (born September 11, 1967 in Fort Knox , Kentucky , USA ) is an American astronaut .

education

Bresnik received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from The Citadel Military Academy in South Carolina in 1989 and a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 2002 .

In May, Bresnik joined the United States Marine Corps . After completing his training, he was employed as a test pilot and as a pilot instructor, among other things. He also flew several combat missions in the Second Gulf War .

Astronaut activity

In May 2004, Bresnik was selected as a candidate for astronauts as a pilot with the 19th NASA group. In February 2006 he completed his astronaut training.

Bresnik was nominated for the STS-129 space shuttle mission in September 2008 . He took off on November 16, 2009 with the space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station (ISS) .

On July 28, 2017, Bresnik took off on its second space flight. Together with Sergei Ryazansky and Paolo Nespoli , he flew to the ISS in the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft . There he initially worked as a flight engineer for Expedition 52 . On September 2, he took command of Expedition 53 . The return flight to earth took place on December 14, 2017.

Private

Bresnik's daughter Abigail Mae was born on November 21, 2009 while he was in space. This marked the second time a NASA astronaut had been in space at the time of his child's birth , following the birth of Mike Fincke's daughter in June 2004. Bresnik and his wife Rebecca have a son whom they adopted as an infant from Ukraine the year before .

See also

Web links

Commons : Randolph Bresnik  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

  1. ↑ NASA Assigns Crew For Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-129 Mission. NASA, September 5, 2008, accessed September 15, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Orbiting astronaut welcomes daughter. CNN, November 22, 2009, accessed November 23, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Bresnik, Randolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bresnik, Randolph James; Bresnik, Randy (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Knox , Kentucky