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1. NASA, Space Station Partners Announce Future Crew Members

Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:54:59 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA, Space Station Partners Announce Future Crew Members

July 10, 2013

Jay Bolden Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #13-208

NASA, Space Station Partners Announce Future Crew Members

HOUSTON -- NASA and its international partners have appointed three International Space Station crew members to round out future expeditions to the orbiting laboratory

NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, Japanese Exploration Aerospace Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kimiya Yui and Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko are scheduled to launch in June 2015 They will join three Expedition 44 crew members in orbit and will remain aboard as part of Expedition 45

The Expedition 45 crew will be:

� NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, station commander � Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, flight engineer � Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov, flight engineer � NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, flight engineer � Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui, flight engineer � Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, flight engineer

Lindgren, a board-certified emergency and aerospace medicine physician, joined the astronaut corps in 2009 and worked as a NASA flight surgeon before his selection He was born in Taiwan and spent some time in the Midwestern United States, but spent most of his youth in England He holds a bachelor's degree in biology, a master's degree in cardiovascular physiology and a doctorate in medicine At the U S Air Force Academy, he was an instructor, jumpmaster and member of the "Wings of Blue" parachute team He also conducted cardiovascular countermeasure research at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif

Yui was born in Nagano, Japan He received degrees from the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, National Defense Academy of Japan, in March 1992 He served in the Japan Air Self Defense Force until his selection as an astronaut candidate by JAXA in February 2009 He has participated in two years of astronaut candidate training at NASA, which included scientific and technical briefings, intensive instruction on the space station's systems, spacewalking, robotics, physiological training, flight training using a T-38 jet trainer and water and wilderness survival training Yui also participated in the 16th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations off the coast of Key Largo in Florida in June 2012

Oleg Kononenko was selected to join the cosmonaut corps in 1996, and he completed his initial training in 1998 His first spaceflight was as a flight engineer for Expedition 17 in 2008 Kononenko launched to the International Space Station for his second mission in December 2011 and returned to Earth in July 2012 He spent a total of 193 days in space, 191 of which were aboard the station as a part of Expeditions 30 and 31 During Expedition 31, Kononenko served as both the station commander and Soyuz commander During the course of his two missions, Kononenko has spent 393 days in space

For complete astronaut biographical information, visit:

http://www jsc nasa gov/bios

For more information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

To see training and mission posts from Lindgren on Twitter, visit:

http://www twitter com/astro_kjell

To join the online conversation about the International Space Station and the men and women aboard, follow @NASA_Astronauts and the hashtag #ISS To learn more about all the ways to connect and collaborate with NASA, visit:

http://www nasa gov/connect

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