Tim Kopra | |
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 Official portrait, 2008 | |
| Born | Timothy Lennart Kopra April 9, 1963 Austin, Texas, U.S. |
| Education | United 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 | |
| Rank | Colonel, USA |
Time in space | 244d 1h 1m |
| Selection | NASA Group 18 (2000) |
Total EVAs | 3 |
Total EVA time | 13h 31m |
| Missions | STS-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]
- ^ Gamrot, Sabrina (June 8, 2020). "Astronaut named VP of operations at Brampton aerospace company MDA". BramptonGuardian.com. Retrieved July 27, 2020.