Timothy Kopra

Tim Kopra
Official portrait, 2008
Born
Timothy Lennart Kopra

(1963-04-09) April 9, 1963 (age 61)
EducationUnited States Military Academy (BS)
Georgia Institute of Technology (MS)
United States Army War College (MS)
University of London (MBA)
Columbia University (MBA)
Space career
NASA astronaut
RankColonel, USA
Time in space
244d 1h 1m
SelectionNASA Group 18 (2000)
Total EVAs
3
Total EVA time
13h 31m
MissionsSTS-127/128 (Expedition 20)
Soyuz TMA-19M (Expedition 46/47)
Mission insignia

Timothy Lennart "Tim" Kopra (born April 9, 1963) is an American engineer, a Colonel in the United States Army, and a retired NASA astronaut. He served aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer for Expedition 20, returning to Earth aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-128 mission on September 11, 2009. He returned to the ISS for the second time in December 2015, as part of Expedition 46 and as the commander of 47.

In 2020, he was announced as the vice president of robotics and space operations at MDA Corporation.[1]

  1. ^ Gamrot, Sabrina (June 8, 2020). "Astronaut named VP of operations at Brampton aerospace company MDA". BramptonGuardian.com. Retrieved July 27, 2020.