EXPEDITION 19 & 20 FULL CREW OF SIX AT WORK

The arrival of the International Space Station’s It also marked the moment when all five partner the European Space Agency Expedition 19 crew in March 2009 and the agencies were represented – NASA, the (ESA) and the Canadian Expedition 20 crew two months later transitioned Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Space Agency (CSA). the orbiting laboratory to six-person operations. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), The crew of Expedition 19 launched to the ISS on March 26, 2009, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Gennady Padalka (Colonel, masters degree in telecommunications and civil Kazakhstan. On board the Russian Air Force) engineering from the Royal Military Academy, Expedition 19 & 20 Brussels, 1984. Russian Soyuz TMA-14 Commander, & Soyuz Experience: In January 2000, Frank De Winne spacecraft was Cosmonaut Commander joined the European Astronaut Corps. He Gennady Padalka, Astronaut Born: June 21, 1958 in participated in the 11-day Soyuz TMA-1 mission to Michael Barratt and U.S. Krasnodar, Russia. the ISS. spaceflight participant Gennady Padalka Education: Graduated from Robert Thirsk (MDCM) Charles Simonyi, founder The International Space Station as seen from the Eisk Military Aviation College, 1979. Expedition 20 Flight Engineer of International Software Space Shuttle Discovery as it departs at the end of the Experience: Selected as a Cosmonaut in 1989, Born: August 17, 1953, New Corp. Padalka will command STS-119 mission. Padalka was commander of Expedition 9 in 2004. Westminster, British Columbia. both Expedition 19 and 20. Michael Barratt (M.D.) Education: Received a Barratt will serve as a flight engineer. return to Earth in the fall on Shuttle Atlantis at Expedition 19 & 20 Flight bachelors degree in Mechanical the conclusion of the STS-129 mission. Engineering from the University Simonyi spent 10 days on the station under Engineer Robert Thirsk Born: April 16, 1959 in of Calgary, 1976, a masters in a commercial agreement with Roscosmos, The Shuttle Endeavour is targeted to launch Vancouver, Washington, but Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts making his second flight to the station in the early summer on STS-127. This considers Camas, Washington, Institute of Technology, 1978, a doctorate of and becoming the first repeat spaceflight flight will deliver the Japanese Experiment to be his hometown. Medicine from McGill University, 1982, and a Michael Barratt participant. He returned to Earth on Soyuz Module-Exposed Facility and the Experiment Education: Graduated from Master of Business Administration from the MIT Logistics Module-Exposed Section for the Kibo Sloan School of Management, 1998. TMA-13 on April 7 with the Expedition 18 crew University of Washington, 1981, with a bachelors laboratory. The exposed section is a “front degree in Zoology. Later earned an M.D. at Experience: Selected as an astronaut in 1983, his of Michael Fincke and Yury Lonchakov, who Northwestern University in 1985. first space flight was STS-78 in 1996. had been aboard the station since October porch” on which experiments will be mounted Experience: Selected as an astronaut in 2000, 2008. for long-duration exposure to space. Timothy Kopra (Colonel, U.S. Expedition 19 is his first spaceflight. Army) Padalka and Barratt joined Flight Engineer The mission also will deliver NASA astronaut Roman Romanenko Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata, of the JAXA, who was Tim Kopra to the complex to replace Wakata, (Lieutenant Colonel, Russian Born: Born on April 9, 1963, in launched to the station aboard the Space who will return to Earth aboard Endeavour. Austin, Texas. Air Force) Shuttle Discovery on STS-119. Kopra will remain on board the station until Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Education: Earned a bachelors August when he is scheduled to come home & Soyuz Commander degree from the United States Timothy Kopra On May 27, Russian Cosmonaut Roman on Discovery’s STS-128 mission that will Military Academy, West Point, Born: August 9, 1971, in Romanenko, CSA Astronaut Robert Thirsk and deliver his replacement, Nicole Stott. Schelkovo, Moscow Region. 1985, a masters in Aerospace Engineering, ESA Astronaut Frank De Winne of Belgium, Roman Romanenko Education: Graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995. Stott will spend a little more than three months launched from Baikonur aboard Soyuz TMA- Leningrad Suvorov military school, 1988, and from Experience: Selected as an astronaut in 2000, in orbit and is slated to return to Earth with 15, docking with the station May 29. the Chernigov High Air Force School of Pilots, Expedition 20 will be his first space flight. Romanenko and De Winne on the Soyuz TMA- 1992 as a pilot-engineer. Nicole Stott Thirsk became the first Canadian to fly on a 15 when the Expedition 21 crew replaces them Experience: Selected as a cosmonaut in 1997, Expedition 20 Flight Engineer long-duration spaceflight. He is scheduled to in late November. Expedition 20 is his first spaceflight. Born: Albany, New York, she Frank De Winne considers Clearwater, Florida to Expedition 20 Flight Engineer be her hometown. & Expedition 21 Commander Education: Earned a bachelors United Space Alliance United Space Alliance Born: April 25, 1961 in Ghent, degree in Aeronautical Communications and Public Relations Communications and Public Relations Nicole Stott Belgium. Engineering from Embry-Riddle M/C USH-100B M/C USK-558 Education: Graduated from Aeronautical University, 1987, and a masters in 1150 Gemini Avenue 8550 Astronaut Blvd. the Royal School of Cadets, Engineering Management from the University of Houston, Texas 77058 Cape Canaveral, Florida 32920-4304 Frank De Winne Lier, in 1979. Received a Central Florida, 1992. www.unitedspacealliance.com