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Kopra, Timothy Lennart

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Kopra Credit: www.spacefacts.de

Status: Inactive; Active 2000-2018.. Born: 1963-04-09. Spaceflights: 2 . Total time in space: 244.04 days. Birth Place: Austin, Texas.

Educated West Point; Georgia Tech.

Official NASA Biography as of June 2016:Timothy L. Kopra (Colonel, U. S. Army, Ret.)
NASA Astronaut

Pronunciation: TIM-uh-thee COPE-rah

PERSONAL DATA: Born on April 9, 1963, in Austin, Texas. Married to the former Dawn Lehman of Lewisburg, Kentucky. They have two children. He enjoys running, swimming, reading, home improvement projects, and spending time with family and friends. His mother, Martha Kopra, resides in Austin, Texas. His father, Dr. Lennart Kopra, is deceased. Dawn's parents, Charles and Betty Lehman, reside in Lewisburg, Kentucky.

EDUCATION: McCallum High School, Austin, Texas, 1981. Bachelor of Science, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, 1985. Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995. Master of Strategic Studies, U.S. Army War College, 2006. Masters of Business Administration, Columbia University and London Business School, 2013.

ORGANIZATIONS: Society of Experimental Test Pilots; Army Aviation Association of America; American Helicopter Society; United States Military Academy Association of Graduates; West Point Society of Greater Houston; Columbia Business School Alumni Association, London Business School Alumni Club.

SPECIAL HONORS: Empire Test Pilot School Award for the Best Developmental Test Thesis, Class 110, U.S. Navy Test Pilot School (1996); Silver and Bronze Order of Saint Michael, Army Aviation Award (2009, 1999). Awarded the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, two Meritorious Service Medals, Air Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, NASA Space Flight Medal, NASA Distinguished Service Medal, and various other service awards.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE: Kopra received his commission as a second lieutenant from the United States Military Academy in May 1985 and was designated as an Army aviator in August 1986. He then completed a three-year assignment at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where he served as an aeroscout platoon leader, troop executive officer, and squadron adjutant in the 101st Airborne Division's air cavalry squadron. In 1990, he was assigned to the 3rd Armored Division in Hanau, Germany, and was deployed to Southwest Asia, where he served in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He completed his tour in Germany as an attack helicopter company commander and an operations officer. After returning to the United States and completing graduate studies at Georgia Tech, he was selected in 1995 to attend the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School. Upon graduation, he was assigned to the U.S. Army Aviation Technical Test Center, where he worked as an experimental test pilot on various projects and served as the developmental test director for the Comanche helicopter program. Other military schools include the Army Parachutist Course, Pathfinder Course, Air Assault Course, the Combined Services Staff School, and the Command and General Staff College. Kopra retired from the U.S. Army in November 2010.

NASA EXPERIENCE: Kopra was assigned to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas in September 1998 as a vehicle integration test engineer. In this position, he primarily served as an engineering liaison for space shuttle launch operations and International Space Station hardware testing. He was actively involved in the contractor tests of the Extravehicular Activity (EVA) interfaces for each of the space station truss segments.

Selected as an astronaut in July 2000, Kopra began his initial training the following month. Kopra completed two years of intensive space shuttle, International Space Station, and T-38 flight training. He then served in the Space Station Branch of the Astronaut Office, where he was involved in the testing of crew interfaces for two space station pressurized modules as well as the implementation of support computers and operational Local Area Network on the station.

After completing a Russian language immersion course in Moscow, Russia, Kopra began training in July 2005 for a long duration space flight mission. In September 2006, Kopra served with a six-person crew aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Aquarius underwater laboratory as part of NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) 11. During the week-long mission that served as an analog for lunar operations, the crew tested space suit design concepts, communication protocols, construction techniques, and the use of robotic devices. Kopra completed training in Russia, Japan, Germany and Canada at each of the international partner training sites and served as a backup crew member to Expeditions 16 and 17. He then served as prime crew member for Expedition 20. Kopra completed his first space flight in 2009, logging two months in space and completing one spacewalk. Upon his return, Kopra was assigned as a mission specialist for STS-133. After the launch was delayed, Kopra sustained an injury that prevented him from flying. He then served as Chief of the Vehicle Integration Test Office and is now assigned as a flight engineer to Expedition 46 and Commander for Expedition 47.

SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: On Expedition 20, Kopra served as a flight engineer aboard the International Space Station. He launched with the STS-127 crew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on July 15, 2009 and returned to Earth with the STS-128 crew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on September 11, 2009. During the two shuttle missions and tour of duty aboard station, Kopra performed one spacewalk totaling 5 hours and 32 minutes, executed assembly tasks with the space station and Japanese robotic arms, and conducted numerous science experiments.

SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: https://twitter.com/astro_tim

OCTOBER 2014

OFFICIAL NASA BIOGRAPHY

NAME: Timothy L. Kopra, Major, USA, Mission Specialist

BIRTHDATE/PLACE: April 9, 1963 - Austin, TX

RESIDENCE WHEN RECRUITED: Seabrook, TX

EDUCATION: McCallum High School, Austin, TX, 1981; B.S., Computer Science, U.S. Military Academy, 1985; M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995.

POSITION WHEN RECRUITED: Vehicle Integration Test Officer U.S. Army NASA Detachment NASA-Johnson Space Center Houston, TX

• Birth of Timothy Lennart Kopra - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Kopra. American engineer mission specialist astronaut 2000-2018. 2 spaceflights, 244.0 days in space. Flew to orbit on STS-127 (2009), Soyuz TMA-19M..

• NASA Astronaut Training Group 18 selected. - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Antonelli, Barratt, Behnken, Boe, Bowen, Drew, Feustel, Ford, Kevin, Garan, Good, Hurley, Kopra, McArthur, Megan, Nyberg, Stott, Virts, Wilmore.

  The group was selected to provide pilot, engineer, and scientist astronauts for space shuttle flights.. Qualifications: Pilots: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics. Advanced degree desirable. At least 1,000 flight-hours of pilot-in-command time. Flight test experience desirable. Excellent health. Vision minimum 20/50 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20 vision; maximum sitting blood pressure 140/90. Height between 163 and 193 cm.

  Mission Specialists: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics and minimum three years of related experience or an advanced degree. Vision minimum 20/150 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20. Maximum sitting blood pressure of 140/90. Height between 150 and 193 cm.. Seven pilots and ten mission specialists; 14 men and 3 women.

• STS-127 - . Call Sign: Endeavour. Crew: Cassidy, Hurley, Kopra, Marshburn, Payette, Polansky, Wolf. Payload: Endeavour F23 / ISS 2J/4. Mass: 120,000 kg (260,000 lb). Nation: USA. Agency: NASA. Program: ISS. Class: Manned. Type: Manned spaceplane. Flight: Soyuz TMA-14, Soyuz TMA-15, STS-127. Spacecraft Bus: Shuttle. Spacecraft: Endeavour. Duration: 15.60 days. Decay Date: 2009-07-31 . USAF Sat Cat: 35633 . COSPAR: 2009-038A. Apogee: 336 km (208 mi). Perigee: 328 km (203 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg. Period: 91.20 min.

  Crew: Polansky, Hurley, Cassidy, Marshburn, Wolf, Payette. Deliver to the ISS and install the Kibo Japanese Experiment Module Exposed Facility (JEM EF); Kibo Japanese Experiment Logistics Module - Exposed Section (ELM-ES); and Spacelab Pallet - Deployable 2 (SLP-D2).

• EVA STS-127-1 - . Crew: Kopra, Wolf. EVA Duration: 0.23 days. Nation: USA. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-14, Soyuz TMA-15, STS-127. JEF installed and P3 Nadir UCCAS deployed. S3 Zenith Outboard PAS deploy postponed due to time constraints..

• Soyuz TMA-17M - . Call Sign: Antares. Crew: Kononenko, Yui, Lindgren. Backup Crew: Kopra, Malenchenko, Peake. Return Crew: Kononenko, Yui, Lindgren. Payload: Soyuz TMA s/n 717. Mass: 7,200 kg (15,800 lb). Nation: Russia. Program: ISS. Class: Manned. Type: Manned spacecraft. Flight: Soyuz TMA-17M. Spacecraft Bus: Soyuz. Spacecraft: Soyuz TMA. Duration: 112.67 days. Decay Date: 2015-11-12 13:12:00 . USAF Sat Cat: 40744 . COSPAR: 2015-035A. Apogee: 406 km (252 mi). Perigee: 398 km (247 mi). Inclination: 51.65 deg. Period: 92.60 min. One solar panel of the Soyuz failed to deploy after launch. Docked with the Rassvet module of the ISS at 02:45 GMT on 22 July..

• Soyuz TMA-19M - . Call Sign: Agat. Crew: Malenchenko, Kopra, Peake. Backup Crew: Ivanishin, Onishi, Rubins. Return Crew: Malenchenko, Kopra, Peake. Nation: Russia. Program: ISS. Class: Manned. Type: Manned spacecraft. Flight: Soyuz TMA-19M. Spacecraft Bus: Soyuz. Spacecraft: Soyuz TMA. Duration: 185.92 days. Decay Date: 2016-06-18 09:15:00 . USAF Sat Cat: 41124 . COSPAR: 2015-076A. Apogee: 418 km (259 mi). Perigee: 404 km (251 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg.

  Docked with ISS. On Jun 18 Expedition 47 crew members Yuriy Malenchenko, Tim Kopra and Tim Peake transferred from the Rassvet module to Soyuz TMA-19, closing hatches at 0235 UTC and undocking at 0552 UTC. Soyuz TMA-19M made its deorbit burn at 0822 UTC and reentered for a safe landing in Kazakhstan at 0915 UTC.

• EVA ISS US EVA-34 - . Crew: Kelly, James, Kopra. EVA Duration: 0.14 days. Nation: USA. Program: ISS.

  On Dec 17 the Mobile Transporter (the truck that the SSRMS Canadarm-2 robot arm rides on) got stuck just after leaving worksite 4, one of the stations on the truss railway. The MT has two CETA carts attached to it, and the brakes on one CETA were accidentally engaged - probably left in the wrong position on an earlier spacewalk. Since a stuck MT is considered a safety issue for dockings, astronauts Kelly and Kopra made a spacewalk on Dec 21 to release the brake. They also completed some left-over cabling tasks. The Quest airlock was depressurized at about 1238 UTC and repressurized at 1601 UTC. Kelly and Kopra used EMU suits 3010 and 3011. The MT was now working fine.

• EVA ISS US EVA-35 - . Crew: Kopra, Peake. EVA Duration: 0.20 days. Nation: USA. Program: ISS.

  Astronauts Kopra and Peake made a spacewalk from the Quest airlock in EMU suits 3011 and 3008. They replaced the Sequential Shunt Unit (SSU) electronics box at the base of the 1B solar array on the S6 truss segment. The replacement SSU was launched on STS-96 in 1999 and had been stored since then inside Unity and then PMA-3 until being unpacked in December for the spacewalk. The old SSU failed on Nov 13, shutting down power to the 1B solar array (one of eight on ISS). Full power was now restored. The astronauts also continued cabling work for the IDA docking adapter and relocated a vent on the Tranquility module. The spacewalk was cut short when Kopra's suit developed a small water leak which accumulated in his helmet; this was the same suit that had a more serious leak during Luca Parmitano's spacewalk in Jul 2013. Kopra and Peake depressurized Quest at about 1243 UTC and ventured outside at 1300 UTC, returning with hatch closure at 1727 UTC and repressurization at 1731 UTC. Peake, who was a European Space Agency astronaut sponsored by the UK, made the first UK-flagged spacewalk, and the first spacewalk by a British citizen who was not also a dual-nationality US citizen.