Thu, May 15, 2008
Army Col. Timothy Creamer, JAXA's Soichi Noguchi Named To
November 2009 Mission
NASA and its international partners
have assigned two crew members to the Expedition 20 International
Space Station mission.
NASA astronaut Timothy J. Creamer, a colonel in the US Army, and
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi will
launch on a Soyuz spacecraft in November 2009. Creamer will be
making his first trip to space.
Creamer and Noguchi will join the Expedition 20 mission in
progress and remain aboard the space station for six months as
flight engineers. Creamer also will serve as a NASA science
officer. Other members of the Expedition 20 crew have yet to be
named.
Expedition 20 will continue assembly of the station as well as
outfit the orbiting complex with spare parts and supplies.
Creamer was born in Fort Huachuca, AZ but considers Upper
Marlboro, MD to be his hometown. He has a bachelor's in chemistry
from Loyola College and a master's in physics from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was selected as a NASA
astronaut in 1998.
Noguchi was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, and considers
Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan, his hometown. He has a bachelor's and a
master's degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of
Tokyo. He flew as a mission specialist aboard space shuttle
Discovery's return to flight mission in 2005 and performed three
spacewalks. He was selected as an astronaut in 1996 by Japan's
National Space Development Agency, which now is known as JAXA. He
reported to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in August
1996.
Crew members named as backups are NASA astronaut and Army Col.
Douglas H. Wheelock, and JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa.
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