Timothy Kopra
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Timothy Lennart "Tim" Kopra (born April 9, 1963) is an engineer, a Colonel in the United States Army and a retired NASA astronaut. He served aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer for Expedition 20, returning to Earth aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-128 mission on September 11, 2009. He returned to the ISS for the second time in December 2015, as part of Expedition 46 and as the commander of 47.
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Born | Timothy Lennart Kopra (1963-04-09) April 9, 1963 (age 61) Austin, Texas, U.S. |
Education | United States Military Academy (BS) Georgia Institute of Technology (MS) United States Army War College (MS) University of London (MBA) Columbia University (MBA) |
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Rank | Colonel, USA |
Time in space | 244d 1h 1m |
Selection | NASA Group 18 (2000) |
Total EVAs | 3 |
Total EVA time | 13h 31m |
Missions | STS-127/128 (Expedition 20) Soyuz TMA-19M (Expedition 46/47) |
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In 2020, he was announced as the vice president of robotics and space operations at MDA Corporation.[1]