{"id":52164,"date":"2016-08-24T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-389902"},"modified":"2023-07-26T14:49:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T18:49:02","slug":"nasa-astronaut-shane-kimbrough-available-for-interviews-before-space-station-mission","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-astronaut-shane-kimbrough-available-for-interviews-before-space-station-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Astronaut Shane Kimbrough Available for Interviews Before Space Station Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25208654116_fe7560305e_o_1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25208654116_fe7560305e_o_1.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"NASA Astronaut Shane Kimbrough answers a question from the media at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25208654116_fe7560305e_o_1.jpg 3467w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25208654116_fe7560305e_o_1.jpg?resize=300,216 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25208654116_fe7560305e_o_1.jpg?resize=768,553 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25208654116_fe7560305e_o_1.jpg?resize=1024,738 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25208654116_fe7560305e_o_1.jpg?resize=1536,1106 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25208654116_fe7560305e_o_1.jpg?resize=2048,1475 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25208654116_fe7560305e_o_1.jpg?resize=400,288 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25208654116_fe7560305e_o_1.jpg?resize=600,432 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25208654116_fe7560305e_o_1.jpg?resize=900,648 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25208654116_fe7560305e_o_1.jpg?resize=1200,864 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25208654116_fe7560305e_o_1.jpg?resize=2000,1440 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">NASA Astronaut Shane Kimbrough answers a question from the media at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, on Feb. 24. Kimbrough is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft Sept. 23. <strong>Credits: NASA<\/strong><\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, who is making final preparations for a September launch to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/station\" rel=\"noopener\">International Space Station<\/a>, is available for live satellite interviews from 7 to 8 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 6. The interviews will air live on NASA Television and the agency\u2019s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kimbrough will participate in the interviews live from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. The interviews will be preceded at 6:30 a.m. by a video highlighting his mission training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To participate, media should contact Thomas Gerczak at 281-792-7515 or thomas.j.gerczak@nasa.gov no later than 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2. Media participating in the live shots must tune to NASA Television\u2019s NTV-3 channel. Satellite tuning information is available at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>http:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/1pOWUhR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kimbrough and his crewmates, cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko and Sergey Ryzhikov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, will launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft at 2:17 p.m. Sept. 23 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This will be the second flight of the upgraded Soyuz MS spacecraft, and the crew will spend two days testing the modified systems before docking to the station at 5:05 p.m. Sept. 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the space station, they will join Expedition 49 members NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi. Together, the six crew members will continue the several hundred experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science currently under way and scheduled to take place aboard humanity\u2019s only orbiting lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A retired Army colonel and native of Killeen, Texas, Kimbrough completed his first spaceflight in 2008 on space shuttle mission STS-126. During this mission, he worked to expand the living quarters of the space station to accommodate a six-member crew \u2013 an effort that included two spacewalks, during which he logged 12 hours and 52 minutes outside the orbiting laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kimbrough is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He began his NASA career at the agency\u2019s Johnson Space Center as a flight simulation engineer on the Shuttle Training Aircraft before being selected as an astronaut in 2004. This will be Kimbrough\u2019s first long-duration stay on the space station. He is scheduled to return to Earth with crew members Borisenko and Ryzhikov in February 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get the latest NASA TV schedule and video streaming information at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/nasatv<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the space station crew and mission on social media at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>http:\/\/twitter.com\/space_station<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>http:\/\/instagram.com\/iss<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow Kimbrough on Twitter at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"500\" data-height=\"750\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/astro_kimbrough?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">Tweets by astro_kimbrough<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>-end-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tabatha Thompson<br>\nHeadquarters, Washington<br>\n202-358-1100<br>\ntabatha.t.thompson@nasa.gov<br>\nJenny Knotts<br>\nJohnson Space Center, Houston<br>\n281-483-5111<br>\nnorma.j.knotts@nasa.gov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, who is making final preparations for a September launch to the International Space Station, is available for live satellite interviews from 7 to 8 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 6. The interviews will air live on NASA Television and the agency\u2019s website. 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