10 lat temu 29 czerwca 2009 NASA ogłosiła skład
20 grupy astronautów. Z 9. trzech astronautów przekroczyło już 50 lat. Jack Fischer opuścił NASA w 2018, a Jeanette Epps po odsunięciu od przygotowań do lotu w 2018 pracuje w biurze astronautów przy
Mission Support Crew BranchPrzydział do lotu ma tylko Michael Hopkins (Crew Dragon USCV-1), który jako pierwszy, z tej grupy, poleciał na ISS w 2013.
NASA Selects Nine New Astronauts for Future Space ExplorationJune 29, 2009 RELEASE 09-149
HOUSTON - After reviewing more than 3,500 applications, NASA has selected nine people for the 2009 astronaut candidate class. They will begin training at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston this August.
"This is a very talented and diverse group we've selected," said Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Space Operations at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "They will join our current astronauts and play very important roles for NASA in the future. In addition to flying in space, astronauts participate in every aspect of human spaceflight, sharing their expertise with engineers and managers across the country. We look forward to working with them as we transcend from the shuttle to our future exploration of space, and continue the important engineering and scientific discoveries aboard the International Space Station."
The new astronaut candidates are:
Serena M. Aunon, 33, of League City, Texas; University of Texas Medical Branch flight surgeon for NASA's Space Shuttle, International Space Station and Constellation Programs; born in Indianapolis. Aunon holds degrees from George Washington University, University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston and the University of Texas Medical Branch.
Jeanette J. Epps, 38, of Fairfax, Va.; technical intelligence officer with the Central Intelligence Agency. Born in Syracuse, N.Y., Epps holds degrees from LeMoyne College in Syracuse and the University of Maryland.
Jack D. Fischer, major, U.S. Air Force, 35, of Reston, Va.; test pilot; U.S. Air Force Strategic Policy intern, Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Pentagon. Born in Boulder, Colo., Fischer is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Co., and MIT.
Michael S. Hopkins, lieutenant colonel, U.S. Air Force, 40, of Alexandria, Va.; special assistant to the Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Pentagon. Born in Lebanon, Mo., Hopkins holds degrees from the University of Illinois and Stanford University.
Kjell N. Lindgren, 36, of League City, Texas; University of Texas Medical Branch flight surgeon for NASA's Space Shuttle, International Space Station and Constellation Programs. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Lindgren has degrees from the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado State University, the University of Colorado, the University of Minnesota and the University of Texas Medical Branch.
Kathleen (Kate) Rubins, 30, of Cambridge, Mass.; principal investigator and fellow, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT. Born in Farmington, Conn., Rubins conducts research trips to the Congo and has degrees from the University of California-San Diego and Stanford University.
Scott D. Tingle, commander, U.S. Navy, 43, of Hollywood, Md.; test pilot and assistant program manager-Systems Engineering at Naval Air Station Patuxent River. Born in Attleboro, Mass., Tingle holds degrees from Southeastern Massachusetts University (now the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) and Purdue University.
Mark T. Vande Hei, lieutenant colonel, U.S. Army, 42, of El Lago, Texas; flight controller for the International Space Station at the Johnson Space Center as part of the U.S. Army NASA Detachment. Born in Falls Church, Va., Vande Hei is a graduate of Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minn., and Stanford University.
Gregory R. (Reid) Wiseman, lieutenant commander, U.S. Navy, 33, of Virginia Beach, Va.; test pilot; department head, Strike Fighter Squadron 103, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, in Oceana, Va. Born in Baltimore, Wiseman is a graduate of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Johns Hopkins University.
https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jun/HQ_09-149_New_Astronauts.htmlA Decade of Chumps: NASA's 2009 Astronaut Class Chalks Up Ten Years of Space ExperienceBy Ben Evans, on June 30th, 2019
“Chump” Kjell Lindgren gazes out of the multi-windowed cupola on the International Space Station (ISS), during his 4.5-month increment in July-December 2015. Lindgren is today backing up both the first and second piloted flights of the SpaceX Crew Dragon. Photo Credit: NASATen years ago, this week, nine American men and women from the military and civilian spheres, and with backgrounds which ran the gamut from science and technology to engineering and medicine, were announced as NASA’s 20th class of astronaut candidates. Selected from more than 3,500 applicants, a third of their number were female—the largest women-to-men ratio yet picked by the U.S. space agency, a record later surpassed with the 2013 class—and all but one of them have since flown into space, with another on the brink of a second mission.
On 29 June, as a full decade passes since the class now known as the “Chumps” was first introduced to the world, their ranks have accrued over 3.4 years in space and more than 94 hours of spacewalking in 15 sessions of Extravehicular Activity (EVA).
Jeanette Epps works with Expedition 38/39 astronauts Koichi Wakata and Rick Mastracchio in August 2013. Photo Credit: NASA(...) The selection process had begun in September 2007, with applicants expected to possess the minimum requisite qualifications of a bachelor’s degree in science, engineering or mathematics and three years of relevant professional expertise or extensive experience flying high-performance jets. The deadline for applications closed on 1 July 2008 and, following six months of evaluations and interviews, on 29 June 2009 NASA announced its 20th class of astronaut candidates, 50 years after the legendary Mercury Seven. (...)
The group began training in August 2009 and soon earned the nickname of “the Chumps” from the previous astronaut class, reflecting—in a flipped-over sort of way—their own self-bestowed moniker of “Chimps”. Hopkins was first to draw an official mission assignment, named in February 2011 as a crew member for Expeditions 37/38 and launched on Soyuz TMA-10M in September 2013, shoulder-to-shoulder with Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky. During his 166 days in space, Hopkins performed two EVAs, one of which fell on Christmas Eve and made him one of only a handful of astronauts to have spacewalked over the festive period.
In May 2014, Wiseman became the second of the Chumps to launch into orbit. Assigned to Expeditions 40 and 41, Wiseman launched aboard Soyuz TMA-13M with Russia’s Maksim Surayev and European Space Agency (ESA) Alexander Gerst, he went on to spend 165 days in space, chalking up a pair of EVAs and returning to Earth in November. Next to fly was Kjell Lindgren, who rode uphill with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko—currently on-orbit—and Japan’s Kimiya Yui in July 2015. He logged 141 days in space, performing two spacewalks and returning home the following December. Kate Rubins flew for 115 days in July-October 2016 with Russian cosmonaut Anatoli Ivanishin and Japan’s Takuya Onishi, also logging a pair of EVAs and becoming only the 12th woman in history to venture outside her spacecraft in a pressurized space suit. (...)
Most recently, Serena Auñón-Chancellor stands as the most flight-experienced member of the Chumps, totaling almost 197 days during her long-duration ISS expedition with Alexander Gerst and Russia’s Sergei Prokopyev in June-December 2018, which was extended slightly following the high-altitude abort of Soyuz MS-10.
Left currently unflown is Jeanette Epps, who was assigned in January 2017 to fly aboard Soyuz MS-09 and might have become the first African-American long-duration resident of the ISS. However, a year later—for reasons which remain obscure—Epps was removed from the mission and replaced by Auñón-Chancellor, who moved forward from her own slot on Soyuz MS-11.
According to NASA’s Brandi Dean, Epps currently serves in the Mission Support Crew Branch of the astronaut office, with responsibilities covering Exploration, the testing of the Orion crew module “and a number of other activities”. As for Auñón-Chancellor herself, she is wrapping up post-flight rehabilitation from her 28 weeks in space, before rotating into another technical assignment within the office. (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2019/06/30/a-decade-of-chumps-nasas-2009-astronaut-class-chalks-up-ten-years-of-space-experience/#more-108089