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Next Space Station Crew Selected
Washington DC (SPX) May 02, 2006 The International Space Station partners have named NASA astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria and Sunita Williams and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin as the new crew members of the orbiting facility. Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin are slated to lift off this September aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Lopez-Alegria, a veteran of three space flights, (pictured) will command Expedition 14 and serve as the station science officer for the six-month mission. He and Tyurin, a veteran station crew member from Expedition 3, already are in training. Tyurin will serve as flight engineer and Soyuz commander. Williams will join the Expedition 14 crew in progress and serve as a flight engineer, after traveling to the station aboard space shuttle mission STS-116. This will be her first space flight. Selected as an astronaut in 1992, Lopez-Alegria flew his first shuttle mission, STS-73, in 1995 and later visited the station on shuttle missions STS-92 in 2000 and STS-113 in 2002. He has performed five spacewalks during the station assembly complex. Lopez-Alegria also has logged more than 42 days in space, including 34 hours spacewalking. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and received a Master of Science degree from the Naval Postgraduate School. Williams was selected as an astronaut in 1998. She also is a graduate of the Naval Academy and received a Master of Science degree from the Florida Institute of Technology. She was designated a Naval aviator in 1989 and graduated from the Naval Test Pilot School in 1993. Williams has logged more than 2,770 flight hours in 30 different types of aircraft. At NASA, she served as a liaison in Moscow supporting Expedition 1 and has supported station robotics work. Tyurin was selected as a cosmonaut in 1993 and was a flight engineer aboard the station for Expedition 3 in 2001. He has spent 125 days in space. Tyurin is a graduate of the Moscow Aviation Institute. Astronaut Peggy Whitson is the backup commander for Expedition 14, and astronaut Clay Anderson is backup flight engineer. Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko is the backup Soyuz commander and flight engineer. Related Links Station at NASA
European Space Station Module Columbus Takes Step Closer To Launch
Bremen, Germany (AFP) May 02, 2006Engineers on Tuesday formally handed over the Columbus science module, the European Space Agency's biggest contribution to the problem-dogged International Space Station (ISS). |
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