1. Robert Shane Kimbrough was born on June 4,1967 and is a retired United States Army officer and NASA astronaut.
14 Facts About Shane Kimbrough
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Shane Kimbrough was part of the first group of candidates selected for NASA astronaut training following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
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Shane Kimbrough was the commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 50, and returned to Earth in April 2017.
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Shane Kimbrough is married to the former Robbie Lynn Nickels.
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Shane Kimbrough played for the West Point baseball team for four years, and was selected as team captain his senior year.
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Shane Kimbrough served as an Apache helicopter pilot in the first Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
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Shane Kimbrough retired from the US Army with the rank of colonel.
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Shane Kimbrough was a mission specialist on STS-126, which launched on November 14,2008.
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On January 6,2017, Shane Kimbrough performed his third EVA, along with Peggy Whitson.
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Shane Kimbrough performed his fourth EVA with astronaut Thomas Pesquet on January 13,2017.
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On March 23,2017, Shane Kimbrough performed his fifth EVA with Thomas Pesquet.
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On March 30,2017, Shane Kimbrough performed his sixth EVA with Peggy Whitson.
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Shane Kimbrough carried a soccer ball recovered from the wreckage of the Space Shuttle Challenger to the ISS, after which it was returned to the family of Challenger astronaut Ellison Onizuka and put on display at Clear Lake High School in Houston.
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In July 2020, NASA announced that Shane Kimbrough would fly to space for the third time as commander of SpaceX Crew-2 along with NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet.