Shane Kimbrough

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Shane Kimbrough
Shane Kimbrough
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on May 2004
( 19th NASA group )
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		November 15, 2008
Landing of the
last space flight: 		April 10, 2017
Time in space: 188d 23h 44min
EVA inserts: 6th
Total EVA duration: 39h 00min
Space flights

Robert Shane Kimbrough (born June 4, 1967 in Killeen , Texas , USA ) is an American astronaut and former officer in the United States Army .

Life

Kimbrough attended the Lovett School in 1985 Atlanta ( Georgia ) and began studying at the Military Academy of the US Army in West Point. There he received a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering in 1989 . He was trained as an army pilot at the US Army flight school . In 1990 he took part in the Second Gulf War. He rose to the rank of helicopter squadron and regimental commander; his last rank before retirement was a colonel .

In 1998 he graduated with a Master of Science degree in Operations Research from the Georgia Institute of Technology and then worked as an Assistant Professor at the West Point Military Academy.

Kimbrough joined NASA in September 2000 and worked at Ellington Field Airport near Houston as a simulation engineer for Shuttle Training Aircraft .

Astronaut activity

Kimbrough was selected as an astronaut by NASA in May 2004 (NASA-19 ​​Selection). In February 2006, he completed the astronaut candidate training, which included scientific and technical units, intensive lessons on the space shuttle and the International Space Station ISS , physiological training, flight lessons with the Northrop T-38 as well as water and survival training. The completion of this initial training qualifies him for the various technical tasks within the astronaut corps for future flight assignments as a mission specialist .

On November 15, 2008, he took off on the STS-126 mission for his first space flight. During the mission he went on two field assignments . The landing took place on November 30th.

On October 19, 2016, Kimbrough took off on its second space flight. Together with Sergei Ryschikow and Andrei Borissenko , he flew to the ISS in the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft . There he initially worked as a flight engineer for Expedition 49 . On October 30th, he took command of Expedition 50 . The landing took place on April 10, 2017.

At the end of July 2020 he was assigned to the SpaceX Crew-2 mission , which started on April 23, 2021.

Summary

No. mission function Flight period Flight duration
1 STS-126 Mission specialist November 15-30, 2008 15d 20h 29min
2 Soyuz MS-02 ( ISS 49 and 50 ) Flight engineer / ISS commander October 19, 2016 - April 10, 2017 173d 03h 15min

Private

Kimbrough is married with three children.

See also

Web links

Commons : Robert S. Kimbrough  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NASA biography of Shane Kimbrough (English; PDF)
  2. ↑ www.spacefacts.de
  3. ↑ NASA: NASA Announces Astronauts to Fly on SpaceX Crew-2 Mission to Space Station. In: NASA Release 20-076. July 28, 2020, accessed on August 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kimbrough, Shane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kimbrough, Robert Shane (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut and former officer in the United States Army
DATE OF BIRTH 4th June 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Killeen , State of Texas , USA