Randolph James "Komrade" Bresnik was born on September 11,1967 and is a retired officer in the United States Marine Corps and an active NASA astronaut.
22 Facts About Randolph Bresnik
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Randolph Bresnik first launched to space on STS-129, then served as flight engineer for Expedition 52, and as ISS commander for Expedition 53.
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Randolph Bresnik was born in Fort Knox, Kentucky, but considers Santa Monica, California, to be his hometown.
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Randolph Bresnik graduated from Santa Monica High School in Santa Monica, California, in 1985.
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Randolph Bresnik then earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from The Citadel in 1989, and later a Master of Science degree in Aviation Systems from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 2002.
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Randolph Bresnik then graduated from the Air War College in 2008.
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Randolph Bresnik's family includes his wife, Rebecca Burgin of Pompton Plains, New Jersey, a son Wyatt, and a daughter Abigail Mae who was born while he was in orbit during STS-129.
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Randolph Bresnik's father is Albert 'Randy' Bresnik, a pilot himself, serving in the Vietnam war and later in domestic duties.
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In May 1989, Randolph Bresnik received his commission as a second lieutenant in the US Marine Corps from the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps at The Citadel.
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Randolph Bresnik was selected for the US Naval Test Pilot School at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, and began the course January 1999.
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Randolph Bresnik was the Operations Officer of VMFA-232 when he was selected for the astronaut program.
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Randolph Bresnik has logged more than 6,000 hours on 81 different aircraft.
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Randolph Bresnik was selected by NASA in May 2004 as an astronaut candidate.
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Randolph Bresnik was one of two pilots chosen in the Astronaut Class of 2004.
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Randolph Bresnik participated in the first analogue ESA CAVES mission in September 2011, staying underground and exploring the caves for 6 days, simulating Mars mission technologies.
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Randolph Bresnik was the lead astronaut assigned to the closeout crew for the final STS-135 launch in the Shuttle program.
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In September 2008 NASA announced that Randolph Bresnik was assigned as Mission Specialist STS-129, a shuttle mission to the International Space Station.
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Randolph Bresnik participated in the second and third EVA of STS-129.
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On November 21,2009, Randolph Bresnik stepped outside the station with veteran spacewalk Michael Foreman, the two spent six hours and eight minutes outside of the ISS installing a piece of equipment called the Grappling Adapter to On-Orbit Railing on the European Columbus, installing a wireless video system on the outside of the station and setting up a cargo attachment system.
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Satcher and Randolph Bresnik spent five hours and 42-minutes outside the station installing a similar cargo attachment system to the one on the last spacewalk, but on the opposite side of the station, installing the MISSE-7 experiment and transferring a high pressure gas tank.
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Randolph Bresnik launched aboard Soyuz MS-05 to the ISS on July 28,2017, and served as flight engineer for Expedition 52, and as ISS commander for Expedition 53.
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On October 5,2017, Randolph Bresnik performed his third spacewalk, along with Mark Vande Hei.