Stephen Bowen (astronaut)

Steve Bowen
Bowen in April 2008
Born	Stephen Gerard Bowen (1964-02-13) February 13, 1964 (age 60) Cohasset, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education	United States Naval Academy (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS)
Space career
NASA astronaut
Rank	Captain, USN
Time in space	226d 8h 43m
Selection	NASA Group 18 (2000)
Total EVAs	10
Total EVA time	65h 57m
Missions	STS-126 STS-132 STS-133 SpaceX Crew-6 (Expedition 68/69)
Mission insignia

Stephen Gerard "Steve" Bowen (born February 13, 1964) is a United States Navy submariner and a NASA astronaut; he was the second submariner to travel into space. Bowen has been on four spaceflights, the first three of which were Space Shuttle missions to the International Space Station. His first mission, STS-126, took place in November 2008, and his second was STS-132 in May 2010. His third was STS-133 in February 2011, and his fourth was SpaceX Crew-6 in March 2023.

In March 2011, Bowen completed his third spaceflight as a mission specialist on STS-133, which was Space Shuttle Discovery's final planned flight. Having flown on both STS-132 and STS-133, he became the first and only astronaut to fly on consecutive shuttle missions. Originally Tim Kopra was scheduled to fly on STS-133, but had a bicycle injury shortly before the mission, and so he was replaced by Bowen.^[1] On December 16, 2021, NASA assigned Bowen as commander of SpaceX Crew-6 mission to the ISS, launched in March 2023.