NASA Assigns Crew for Final Scheduled Space Shuttle Mission
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WASHINGTON -- NASA has assigned the crew for the last scheduled space
shuttle mission, targeted to launch in September 2010. The flight to
the International Space Station will carry a pressurized logistics
module to the station.
Veteran shuttle commander and retired Air Force Col. Steven W. Lindsey
will command the eight-day mission, designated STS-133. Air Force
Col. Eric A. Boe will serve as the pilot; it will be his second
flight as a shuttle pilot. Mission Specialists are shuttle mission
veteran Air Force Col. Benjamin Alvin Drew, Jr., and long-duration
spaceflight veterans Michael R. Barratt, Army Col. Timothy L. Kopra
and Nicole P. Stott.
Lindsey will be making his fifth shuttle flight. He served as the
pilot of STS-87 in 1997 and STS-95 in 1998, and commanded STS-104 in
2001 and STS-121 in 2006. Lindsey was born in Arcadia, Calif., and
considers Temple City, Calif., to be his hometown. He has a
bachelor's degree from the U.S. Air Force Academy and a master's
degree from the Air Force Institute of Technology.
Lindsey currently is chief of the Astronaut Office. Long-duration
spaceflight veteran and former space station commander Peggy A.
Whitson has been named his successor when Lindsey transitions in
October to training for his spaceflight. Whitson was a flight
engineer aboard the station during Expedition 5 in 2002 and the
commander of Expedition 16 in 2007 to 2008.
Boe will be making his second shuttle flight. He was the pilot of
STS-126 in 2008. He was born in Miami and grew up in Atlanta. Boe has
a bachelor's degree from the U.S. Air Force Academy and a master's
degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Drew flew as a mission specialist on STS-118 in 2007 and is currently
the director of Operations at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
in Star City, Russia. He was born in Washington, D.C. Drew has two
bachelor's degrees and a master's degree from the U.S. Air Force
Academy and a master's degree from Embry Riddle University.
Barratt, a medical doctor, currently is on his first mission, aboard
the space station as a flight engineer for Expeditions 19 and 20. He
launched to the station on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft March 26 and is
due to return to Earth on the same Soyuz Oct. 11. Barratt was born in
Vancouver, Wash., and considers Camas, Wash., his hometown. He has a
bachelor's degree from the University of Washington, a master's
degree from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a doctorate
of medicine from Northwestern University.
Kopra just completed his first spaceflight, as a flight engineer
aboard the space station for Expedition 20. He launched July 15 on
shuttle mission STS-127 and landed aboard shuttle mission STS-128 on
Sept. 11. Kopra was born in Austin, Texas. He has a bachelor's degree
from the U.S. Military Academy, and master's degrees from the Georgia
Institute of Technology and the U.S. Army War College.
Stott is in the midst of her first mission as a flight engineer aboard
the station with Barratt for Expeditions 20 and 21. She launched
aboard STS-128 on Aug. 28 and is due to return at the end of STS-129,
targeted for launch Nov. 12. She was born in Albany, N.Y., and
considers Clearwater, Fla., her hometown. She has a bachelor's degree
from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a master's degree from
the University of Central Florida.
For complete astronaut biographical information, visit:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios
Video of the STS-133 crew members will air on NASA Television's Video
File. For downlink and scheduling information and links to streaming
video, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For more information about NASA's Space Shuttle Program, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle
