Changes Also Made In Four Crew Assignments
Five new International Space Station crews have been assigned
by NASA and its international partners, and changes have been made
to four previously assigned station crews.
Among the newly announced crews for future station missions is
the assignment of NASA astronauts Ron Garan, who was born in
Yonkers, NY; Mike Fossum, who grew up in McAllen, TX; Dan Burbank,
who considers Yarmouthport, MA, his hometown; and Don Pettit, who
was born in Silverton, OR. European Space Agency astronaut Andre
Kuipers and Satoshi Furukawa, an astronaut with the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency, or JAXA, also have been assigned to upcoming
crews.
Changes were made to previously announced station crews that
include multiple alterations to Russian cosmonaut assignments:
Alexander Skvortsov replaces Alexander Kaleri as the Soyuz 21
commander and Expedition 24 commander; Feodor Yurchikhin replaces
Skvortsov as the Soyuz 23 commander and Expedition 24/25 flight
engineer; Kaleri replaces Dmitri Kondratiev as the Soyuz 24
commander and Expedition 25/26 flight engineer; and Kondratiev
replaces Andrew Borisienko as the Soyuz 25 commander and joins
Expedition 26 as a flight engineer.
Additional cosmonauts assigned to upcoming crews are Alexander
Samkutyayev, Sergei Volkov, Anton Shkaplerov, Sergei Revin and Oleg
Kononenko.
Details of future station expeditions, along with the Soyuz
spacecraft aboard which the crew members will launch and land,
are:
Expedition 27 (begins in March 2011, with the undocking of Soyuz
24):
- Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratiev, station commander (Soyuz
25)
- NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman, flight engineer (Soyuz
25)
- European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli (Soyuz 25)
- Russian cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyayev (Soyuz 26)
- Russian cosmonaut Andrei Borisienko (Soyuz 26)
- NASA astronaut Ron Garan (Soyuz 26)
Coleman and Nespoli also are members of the Expedition 26
crew.
Expedition 28 (begins with Soyuz 25 undocking):
- Russian cosmonaut Andrei Borisienko, station commander (Soyuz
26)
- Russian cosmonaut Alexander Samokutayev (Soyuz 26)
- NASA astronaut Ron Garan (Soyuz 26)
- Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov (Soyuz 27)
- NASA astronaut Mike Fossum (Soyuz 27)
- JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (Soyuz 27)
Expedition 29 (begins with Soyuz 26 undocking):
- NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, station commander (Soyuz 27)
- JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (Soyuz 27)
- Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov (Soyuz 27)
- Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov (Soyuz 28)
- Russian cosmonaut Sergei Revin (Soyuz 28)
- NASA astronaut Dan Burbank (Soyuz 28)
Expedition 30 (begins with the Soyuz 27 undocking):
- NASA astronaut Dan Burbank, station commander (Soyuz 28)
- Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov (Soyuz 28)
- Russian cosmonaut Sergei Revin (Soyuz 28)
- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko (Soyuz 29)
- European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers (Soyuz 29)
- NASA astronaut Don Pettit (Soyuz 29)
Expedition 31 (begins with the Soyuz 28 undocking):
- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, station commander (Soyuz
29)
- ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers (Soyuz 29)
- NASA astronaut Don Pettit (Soyuz 29)
Three additional crew members for Expedition 31 have yet to be
assigned. They will travel to and from the station aboard Soyuz
30.