Shane Kimbrough
Sign in to saveAlso known as Robert Shane Kimbrough, Robert S. Kimbrough
American astronaut
Key facts
- Born
- Robert Shane Kimbrough , ( 1967-06-04 ) June 4, 1967 (age 59) , Killeen, Texas , U.S.
- Education
- United States Military Academy ( BS ), Georgia Institute of Technology ( MS )
- Rank
- Colonel , USA (ret.)
- Time in space
- 388d 17h 28m
- Selection
- NASA Group 19 (2004)
- Total eva time
- 59h 28m
- Missions
- STS-126 , Soyuz MS-02 ( Expedition 49 / 50 ), SpaceX Crew-2 ( Expedition 65 / 66 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- NASA Astronaut Group 19
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Killeen
- Occupation
- engineer
- Employer
- United States Military Academy
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Military rank
- colonel
- Image
- Shanekimbroughv2.jpg
Show 7 more facts
- member of the crew of
- Soyuz MS-02
- P450
- Soyuz MS-02
- Commons category
- Robert S. Kimbrough
- date of birth
- 1967-06-04
- time in space
- 559768
- name in native language
- Robert Shane Kimbrough
- social media followers
- 123940
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
~5 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Robert Shane Kimbrough (born June 4, 1967) is a retired United States Army officer and NASA astronaut. He was part of the first group of candidates selected for NASA astronaut training following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Kimbrough is a veteran of three spaceflights, the first being a Space Shuttle flight, and the second being a six-month mission to the ISS on board a Russian Soyuz craft. He was the commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 50, and returned to Earth in April 2017. He is married to the former Robbie Lynn Nickels.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shane Kimbrough” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.