CBS News/SpaceflightSTS-116/ISS-14 Now CrewSTS-116 Data Quicklook Data (1) CBS News SpaceCalcPage 1 Position/Age Astronaut/Flights/Education Fam/TS DOB/Seat Home/BKG Hobbies Commander Mark Polansky M/1 06/02/56 Edison, NJ Light aircraft flying, music, Age: 50 1: STS-98 13.0 * Up/Up USAF test pilot arts; Distinguished graduate Master's, aeronautical engineering >5k hours in jets USAF test pilot school Pilot Navy Cmdr. William Oefelein S/2 03/29/65 Anchorage, AK Weight lifting, wake and 41 0: Rookie 0.0 Up/Up TOPGUN pilot snow boarding, fishing, Master's, aviation systems >3k hours in jets hiking; MS1 Nicholas Patrick, Ph.D. M/? 03/22/64 London, UK Flying, reading, scuba, 42 0: Rookie 0.0 Up/Dn civil engineer, Tae Kwon Do, tinkering; Ph.D., mechanical engineering >1.9k hours flying holds 3 robotics patents MS2/FE/EV1 Navy Capt. Robert Curbeam S/2 03/05/62 Baltimore, MD Weight lifting, backpacking, 44 2: STS-85,98 49.4 Up/Up TOPGUN weapons sports Master's, aeronautical engineering carrier deploys MS3/EV2 Christer Fuglesang, ESA M/3 03/18/57 Stockholm Frisbee expert, sailing, 49 0: Rookie 0.0 Dn/Dn CERN physics, skiing, games, reading Ph.D., particle physics ESA astronaut MS4 Joan Higginbotham S/0 03/08/64 Chicago, IL Body building, cycling, 42 0: Rookie 0.0 Dn/Up 9 years at KSC music, motivational Master's, management in shuttle ops speaking MS5/EV3 Navy Cmdr. Sunita Williams M/0 09/19/65 Needham, MA Running, swimming, biking, 41 0: Rookie 0.0 Dn Navy diver, helo triathlons, wind surfing, Master's, engineering management pilot; >2.7k hours snowboarding, bow hunting ISS-14 CDR Navy Capt. Michael Lopez-Alegria M/1 05/30/58 Madrid/Calif Sports, traveling, cooking, 46 4: STS-73,92,113,ISS-14 113.3 N/A Navy test pilot international affairs; speaks Master's, aeronautical engineering >5k hours flying four languages ISS-14 FE Mikhail Tyurin, cosmonaut M/1 03/02/60 Kolomna, Russia Sailing 48 2: ISS-3,ISS-14 196.3 N/A Energia engineer MS in aerospace technology Human factors ISS-14 FE Thomas Reiter, ESA M/2 05/23/58 Frankfurt, Germ. Fencing, badminton, 48 2: Euromir 95,121/ISS-13/14 325.7 Dn Test pilot cooking, guitar 2 MSs in aeronautical engineering, strategic studies Mir cosmonaut Curbeam Oefelien Patrick Higginbotham Williams Polansky Fuglesang Reiter Lopez-Alegria Tyurin *Age, days in space as of: 11/28/06 Compiled by William Harwood.