Thomas Marshburn

Thomas Marshburn
Country:	United States
Organization:	NASA
selected on	May 6, 2004 ( 19th NASA Group )
Calls:	2 space flights
Start of the first space flight:	July 15, 2009
Landing of the last space flight:	May 14, 2013
Time in space:	161d 07h 04min
EVA inserts:	4th
EVA total duration:	24h 29min
Space flights
STS-127 (2009) Soyuz TMA-07M (2012/2013) ISS expedition 34 ISS expedition 35

Thomas Henry "Tom" Marshburn (born August 29, 1960 in Statesville , North Carolina ) is an American astronaut .

education

Marshburn graduated from Henderson High School in Atlanta in 1978 and then studied physics at Davidson College in North Carolina . After his bachelor's degree in 1982, he moved to the University of Virginia , which he left with a master's degree in technical physics in 1984. He received his doctorate in medicine from Wake Forest University in 1989 .

Marshburn then carried out training as an emergency doctor in Toledo (Ohio) , which he successfully completed in 1992, after which he worked as an emergency doctor in Seattle .

When the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) offered a postgraduate course in aerospace medicine in collaboration with NASA in 1993 , Mashburn was among the first class to complete this course in Galveston . After graduating in 1995, Marshburn worked in hospitals in Houston and Boston . He received another master's degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1997 in medical technology.

Worked as a NASA doctor

While still studying space medicine, Marshburn came to the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston in November 1994 , where he was assigned to the medical department of the space shuttle program . From February 1996 to May 1997 he worked as a flight doctor for NASA personnel in the star- studded Russian city of Svyosdny Gorodok and in other Russian flight control centers.

From July 1997 to August 1998, Marshburn served as Vice President of the Medical Department for the Shuttle Mir program . From 1998 to 2001 he was the assistant flight physician for the STS-98 mission and the chief flight physician for the STS-101 . In 2003, Marshburn worked as the chief flight doctor for ISS Expedition 7 in Houston, Russia and Kazakhstan .

Astronaut activity

Marshburn was selected by NASA as a candidate astronaut in 2004 and trained as a mission specialist. The basic training was completed in February 2006.

On February 11, 2008 NASA nominated Marshburn as a mission specialist for flight STS-127 , during which two Japanese modules were brought to the ISS space station . The launch took place on July 15, 2009, the landing on July 31, 2009. Marshburn carried out three space exits.

Marshburn took off for his second space flight on December 19, 2012. Together with Roman Romanenko and Chris Hadfield , he flew to the ISS, where he worked for six months as a flight engineer on ISS expeditions 34 and 35 . On May 11, 2013, Marshburn and Christopher Cassidy exchanged a pump control box on the P6 solar module during an unscheduled EVA . The return to earth took place on May 14, 2013.

Private

Marshburn holds various pilot licenses, including commercial aircraft and aerobatics. He is married and has a daughter.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NASA Assigns Crews for STS-127 and Expedition 19 Missions. NASA, February 11, 2008, accessed February 4, 2009 . 
2. ↑ Astronauts Complete Spacewalk to Repair Ammonia Leak. NASA, May 11, 2013, accessed May 12, 2013 . 

Web links

Commons : Thomas Marshburn  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Thomas Marshburn on the NASA website - biography, pictures and videos (English; PDF)
• spacefacts.de: Short biography