Robert S. Kimbrough
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| Astronaut | |
| Nationality | American |
| Status | Active |
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June 4, 1967 Killeen, Texas |
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Other occupation
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Army Aviator |
| Rank | Colonel, Retired (United States), USA |
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Time in space
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Currently in space |
| Selection | 2004 NASA Group 19 |
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Total EVAs
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4 |
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Total EVA time
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25 hours and 22 minutes |
| Missions | STS-126, Soyuz MS-02 (Expedition 49/Expedition 50) |
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Mission insignia
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Robert S. Kimbrough (born June 4, 1967) is a retired United States Army officer and a NASA astronaut. He was part of the first group of candidates selected for NASA astronaut training following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. He is the current commander of the International Space Station.
Born June 4, 1967, in Killeen, Texas, Kimbrough attended The Lovett School in Atlanta, Georgia, graduating in 1985. Kimbrough graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1989 with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, and served as an Apache helicopter pilot in the first Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Kimbrough later attended and graduated from Georgia Tech with a M.S. in Operations Research in 1998. He helped NASA train astronauts on landing procedures for several years before he himself was selected for training.
He retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of Colonel.
Kimbrough was a Mission Specialist on STS-126, which launched on November 14, 2008. During the mission Kimbrough performed two EVAs. On the tenth anniversary of the International Space Station, Stefanyshyn-Piper and Kimbrough successfully conducted the mission's second EVA, and Kimbrough's first, which lasted 6 hours, 45 minutes. Kimbrough's second EVA was performed on November 24, 2008, and lasted 6 hours and 7 minutes. At the completion of the mission, Kimbrough's cumulative spacewalk time, was 12 hours, 52 minutes.
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