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  • ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti becomes the new International Space Station commander #shorts

    ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti becomes the new International Space Station commander #shorts

    Our astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti has become the new commander of the @iss, taking over from fellow Expedition 67 crew member @olegmks.

    Samantha is the fifth European commander of the Space Station, following in the footsteps of our previous astronauts Frank De Winne, Alexander Gerst, Luca Parmitano and Thomas Pesquet. She‘s also the first European female to occupy the position.

    You can follow along with the rest of Samantha’s Mission Minerva here:
    https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Minerva

    Samantha’s personal Twitter: https://twitter.com/AstroSamantha
    Samantha’s personal TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@astrosamantha

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  • Meet Shane Kimbrough, Crew-2 Commander

    Meet Shane Kimbrough, Crew-2 Commander

    “I love it, it doesn’t matter what I’m flying, it’s just incredible.”

    NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough was born June 4, 1967, in Killeen, Texas. He graduated from The Lovett School, Atlanta, Georgia, in 1985; received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, in 1989 and a Master of Science degree in Operations Research from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998. He has completed 6 spacewalks and logged 189 days in space. He has flown on both the Space Shuttle and Soyuz spacecraft. He launches on April 23nd at 5:49 a.m. aboard the NASA SpaceX Crew-2 mission to the International space station.

  • NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Reflects on His Year in Space

    NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Reflects on His Year in Space

    Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA reflected on his year aboard the orbital laboratory and the accomplishments he and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos have chalked up during their year-long mission in an in-flight interview recorded Jan. 28 with NASA Public Affairs Officer Rob Navias of the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Kelly and Kornienko are scheduled to land March 1, U.S. time (March 2, Kazakhstan time) in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to complete a 340-day mission in which they collected valuable biomedical data on the long duration effects of weightlessness that will be used to formulate a human mission to Mars.

  • NASA Commander Tweets To Take Questions In Space

    NASA Commander Tweets To Take Questions In Space

    NASA astronaut Mark Polansky, commander of the next space shuttle mission to the
    International Space Station, is sharing the final weeks of his training on Twitter.
    Polansky invites followers to submit questions that he will answer from orbit during
    his mission, STS-127, targeted to launch in June. Questions should be submitted in
    the form of a video not longer than 30 seconds, posted to YouTube, and a link to the
    video sent to Polansky’s twitter account at:http://twitter.com/Astro_127.

    Questions will be selected each week to be among those Polansky will answer from space,
    live on NASA Television. The questions that have been selected will be announced on
    his Twitter feed each week.