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Kopra

Kopra
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Educated West Point; Georgia Tech.

OFFICIAL NASA BIOGRAPHY

NAME: Timothy L. Kopra, Major, USA, Mission Specialist

BIRTHDATE/PLACE: April 9, 1963 - Austin, TX

RESIDENCE WHEN RECRUITED: Seabrook, TX

EDUCATION: McCallum High School, Austin, TX, 1981; B.S., Computer Science, U.S. Military Academy, 1985; M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995.

POSITION WHEN RECRUITED: Vehicle Integration Test Officer U.S. Army NASA Detachment NASA-Johnson Space Center Houston, TX

Birth Place: Austin, Texas.
Status: Active.


Born: 1963.04.09.
Spaceflights: 2 .
Total time in space: 58.12 days.

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  Mission Specialists: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics and minimum three years of related experience or an advanced degree. Vision minimum 20/150 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20. Maximum sitting blood pressure of 140/90. Height between 150 and 193 cm.. Seven pilots and ten mission specialists; 14 men and 3 women.

• STS-127 - . Call Sign: Endeavour. Crew: Polansky; Hurley; Cassidy; Payette; Marshburn; Wolf; Kopra. Payload: Endeavour F23 / ISS 2J/4. Mass: 120,000 kg (260,000 lb). Nation: USA. Agency: NASA. Program: ISS. Class: Manned. Type: Manned spaceplane. Flight: STS-127; ISS EO-20; ISS EO-19. Spacecraft: Endeavour. Duration: 15.60 days. Decay Date: 2009-07-31 . USAF Sat Cat: 35633 . COSPAR: 2009-038A. Apogee: 336 km (208 mi). Perigee: 328 km (203 mi). Inclination: 51.6000 deg. Period: 91.20 min. Crew: Polansky, Hurley, Cassidy, Marshburn, Wolf, Payette. Deliver to the ISS and install the Kibo Japanese Experiment Module Exposed Facility (JEM EF); Kibo Japanese Experiment Logistics Module - Exposed Section (ELM-ES); and Spacelab Pallet - Deployable 2 (SLP-D2).

• EVA STS-127-1 - . Crew: Wolf; Kopra. EVA Type: Extravehicular activity. EVA Duration: 0.23 days. Nation: USA. Program: ISS. Flight: STS-127; ISS EO-20; ISS EO-19. Summary: JEF installed and P3 Nadir UCCAS deployed. S3 Zenith Outboard PAS deploy postponed due to time constraints..