STS-124/ISS-17 Crew Data CBS News SpaceCalc Position/Age Astronaut/Flights/Education Fam/TS DOB/Seat Home/BKG Hobbies/notes Commander Navy Cmdr. Mark E. Kelly S/2 02/21/64 West Orange, NJ Cycling, weight lifting, golf Age: 44 STS-108,121 25.0 * Up-1/Up-1 Merchant marine >4,500 hours; >375 carrier Master's, aeronautical engineering Navy test pilot Desert storm combat pilot Pilot Navy Cmdr. Kenneth Ham M/2 12/12/64 Plainfield, NJ Running, weight lifting, sports 43 Rookie 0.0 Up-2/Up-2 Naval Academy >3,700 hours; >300 carrier Master's, aeronautical engineering Navy test pilot Iraq, Bosnia combat pilot MS1 Karen Nyberg, Ph.D. S/0 10/07/69 Vining, MN Art, running, volleyball, 38 Rookie 0.0 Up-3/Up-3 Spacesuit design sewing, backpacking, Ph.D., mechanical engineering ECLSS expert piano, her dogs MS2/EV2 AF Col. Ronald Garan M/3 10/30/61 Yonkers, NY Skiing, football, coaching, 46 Rookie 0.0 Up-4/Up-4 AF test pilot teaching Sunday School Master's, aerospace engineering >4,500 hours classes to children MS3/EV1 Michael Fossum M/4 12/19/57 Sioux Falls, SD Boy Scout scoutmaster; 50 STS-121 12.8 Dn-5/Dn-6 AF flight engineer motorcycles, backpacking; Master's, physical science, systems engineering >1,000 hours former Eagle Scout MS4 Akihiko Hoshide S/0 12/28/68 Tokyo, Japan Flying, rugby football, 39 Rookie 0.0 Dn-6/Dn-6 Rocket science swimming, snow skiing, Master's, aerospace engineering Soyuz qualified traveling MS5/ISS Gregory Chamitoff, Ph.D. M/2 08/06/62 Montreal, Canada Scuba diving, backpacking, 45 Rookie 0.0 Dn-7 Electronics flying, skiing, racquetball, Ph.D., aeronautics/astronautics Divemaster,pilot aikido, guitar ISS-17 CDR Sergei Volkov M/1 04/01/73 Chuguyev, Ukraine Tennis, wind surfing, 35 1: ISS-17 38.2 N/A AF academy reading and visiting Engineering >450 hours museums ISS-17 FE-1 Oleg Kononenko M/1 06/21/64 Chardzhow, Turk. Reading, team sports 43 1: ISS-17 38.2 N/A Design engineer Mechanical engineering Cosmonaut MS5/ISS-17 Garrett Reisman, Ph.D. M/0 02/10/68 Parsippany, NJ Flying, skiing, snow boards, 40 1: STS-123/ISS-16 66.4 N/A TRW engineer rock climbing, scuba diving, Ph.D., mechanical engineering Fluid mechanics mountaineering Chamitoff Fossum Ham Kelly Nyberg Garan Hoshide Reisman Volkov Kononenko *Age, days in space as of: 05/16/08 Compiled by William Harwood.