NASA Updates International Space Station Crew Assignments
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- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:51:58 -0800 (PST)
Jan. 11, 2008
Michael Curie
Headquarters, Washington
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Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters
Johnson Space Center, Houston
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RELEASE: 08-005
NASA UPDATES INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CREW ASSIGNMENTS
HOUSTON - NASA has updated assignments for International Space
Station
expedition crews. The updates reflect changes in the launch schedule
for space shuttle missions that will transport rotating crew members.
Astronaut Garrett E. Reisman, a member of the Expedition 16 and 17
crews, now is scheduled to return to Earth on the STS-124 shuttle
mission, which is targeted to launch April 24, 2008. He originally
was slated to return on STS-126. As planned, Reisman will fly to the
station on STS-123, which is targeted to launch in March. He is a
native of New Jersey and has a doctorate in mechanical engineering
from the California Institute of Technology.
Astronaut Gregory E. Chamitoff is scheduled to fly to the station as
a
mission specialist on STS-124. He will take Reisman's place as an
Expedition 17 flight engineer and return to Earth on shuttle mission
STS-126, which is targeted to launch Sept. 18, 2008. Chamitoff, who
was born in Montreal, Canada, grew up in San Jose, Calif. He has a
doctorate in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Astronaut Sandra H. Magnus will fly to the station on STS-126 to
replace Chamitoff. Magnus, a native of Illinois with a doctorate in
material science and engineering from the Georgia Institute of
Technology, will serve as a flight engineer and NASA science officer
for part of Expedition 17 and part of Expedition 18. Magnus will
return to Earth on shuttle mission STS-119 in the fall of 2008.
Astronaut Koichi Wakata will launch on STS-119 and become the first
resident station crew member from the Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency, or JAXA, replacing Magnus on Expedition 18. Wakata will serve
as a flight engineer on Expedition 18 and return on STS-127.
Backup crew assignments also have been updated. They are included in
the following International Space Station crew lineup:
Expedition 16
Peggy Whitson, NASA astronaut
Yuri Malenchenko, Russian cosmonaut
Daniel Tani, NASA astronaut
Leopold Eyharts, European Space Agency astronaut
Garrett Reisman, NASA astronaut (Backup: Timothy Kopra)
Expedition 17
Sergei Volkov, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Maxim Suraev)
Oleg Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Oleg Skripochka)
Gregory Chamitoff, NASA astronaut (Backup: Timothy Kopra)
Sandra Magnus, NASA astronaut (Backup: Nicole Stott)
Expedition 18
Michael Fincke, NASA astronaut (Backup: Michael Barratt)
Salizhan Sharipov, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Yuri Lonchakov)
Koichi Wakata, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut (Backup:
Soichi Noguchi)
For astronaut biographical information, visit:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios
For more information about NASA's International Space Station
Program,
visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
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