Re: Astronautes [actualités]

[Mustard]

PS: Étant moi-même atteint par cette gentille maladie génétique, je n'ai qu'une seule chose à dire :
Monde de Merde :!: (c) La Classe Américaine

Ne faisons pas d'un cas une généralité svp.

[Saturmir]

Ne faisons pas d'un cas une généralité svp.

Je n'pense pas que t'es vu la Classe Américaine

Un 'tit article du Wikipédia francophone dédié à ce film :
:arrow: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Classe_Am%C3%A9ricaine ;)

Pour en revenir au sujet, si un jour j'vais dans l'espace (oui, c'est beau de rêver), ça sera sans aucun doute en tant que passager et, à l'instar des avions de transport actuels, j'espère bien que les daltoniens pourront prendre place sans avoir autre chose à faire que de payer le billet

[vp]

Mike Bloomfield Joins ATK as Vice President of Constellation Systems
Wednesday October 3, 11:41 am ET
ATK Opens Office in Houston

HOUSTON, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK - News) announced today that Michael J. Bloomfield, former NASA astronaut and deputy director of NASA flight operations, has been named Vice President, Constellation Systems in its Launch Systems Group. ATK also announced the opening of its new office in Houston, which will be headed by Bloomfield.

"Mike brings extensive leadership and technical understanding to this position," said Ron Dittemore, President of ATK Launch Systems Group. "Upcoming constellation activities will involve developmental engineering for the Ares launch vehicles, and Mike will provide timely and direct support to the NASA Constellation Program office for the launch vehicle systems for which ATK is responsible," added Dittemore.

Bloomfield's background includes more than 12 years of experience working with NASA in various leadership positions including the chief of safety for the Astronaut Office, chief instructor astronaut, director of shuttle operations, chief of the shuttle branch, and most recently as deputy director, Flight Crew Operations. As an astronaut, Bloomfield flew on three Space Shuttle flights, logging over 750 hours in space.

Bloomfield began his career in the U.S. Air Force as an F-15 pilot and later became an F-15 instructor. He is a graduate from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a Bachelors degree in engineering mechanics and later earned a Masters degree in engineering management from Old Dominion University.

ATK is a $4 billion advanced weapon and space systems company employing approximately 16,500 people in 21 states.

[vp]

Beamer's left NASA. Thanks for the shakes, sir.

VETERAN ASTRONAUT AND SPACEWALKER ROBERT CURBEAM LEAVES NASA

HOUSTON - NASA astronaut Robert Curbeam, Jr., has left NASA to take a job in the private sector.

"Bob has served his country with distinction for more than 23 years, both as an astronaut and naval officer," said Brent Jett, director of the Flight Crew Operations Directorate at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. "His accomplishments and talents are truly extraordinary.
We are grateful for his service at NASA and wish him well in his new career."

Curbeam most recently served as deputy director of the Flight Crew Operations Directorate. He has flown on three space shuttle missions.
On his last flight, STS-116 in December 2006, Curbeam became the first shuttle astronaut ever to conduct four spacewalks in a single mission.
During the spacewalks, he assisted in clearing problems that had prevented the folding of a solar array wing on the International Space Station and completed other assembly tasks.

Curbeam also flew on STS-85 in August 1997 and STS-98 in February 2001.
During the STS-98 mission, he performed three spacewalks to help install the space station's Destiny laboratory. He has accumulated 45 hours and 34 minutes of spacewalking time and more than 900 hours in space.

NASA selected Curbeam as an astronaut in December 1994. He has served in a variety of technical and management positions within the Astronaut Office in Houston. He also served as deputy associate administrator for safety and mission assurance at NASA Headquarters in Washington and as director of safety, reliability and quality assurance for the Constellation Program.

[Invité]

Le pote d'Astrogreg qui s'en va ;)

[Space Opera]

OOooh non mon bon ami qui s'en va. So long pal

[vp]

RELEASE: 08-005

NASA UPDATES INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CREW ASSIGNMENTS

HOUSTON - NASA has updated assignments for International Space Station expedition crews. The updates reflect changes in the launch schedule for space shuttle missions that will transport rotating crew members.


Astronaut Garrett E. Reisman, a member of the Expedition 16 and 17 crews, now is scheduled to return to Earth on the STS-124 shuttle
mission, which is targeted to launch April 24, 2008. He originally was slated to return on STS-126. As planned, Reisman will fly to the
station on STS-123, which is targeted to launch in March. He is a native of New Jersey and has a doctorate in mechanical engineering
from the California Institute of Technology.

Astronaut Gregory E. Chamitoff is scheduled to fly to the station as a mission specialist on STS-124. He will take Reisman's place as an
Expedition 17 flight engineer and return to Earth on shuttle mission STS-126, which is targeted to launch Sept. 18, 2008. Chamitoff, who
was born in Montreal, Canada, grew up in San Jose, Calif. He has a doctorate in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.

Astronaut Sandra H. Magnus will fly to the station on STS-126 to replace Chamitoff. Magnus, a native of Illinois with a doctorate in
material science and engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, will serve as a flight engineer and NASA science officer
for part of Expedition 17 and part of Expedition 18. Magnus will return to Earth on shuttle mission STS-119 in the fall of 2008.

Astronaut Koichi Wakata will launch on STS-119 and become the first resident station crew member from the Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency, or JAXA, replacing Magnus on Expedition 18. Wakata will serve as a flight engineer on Expedition 18 and return on STS-127.

Backup crew assignments also have been updated. They are included in the following International Space Station crew lineup:

Expedition 16
Peggy Whitson, NASA astronaut
Yuri Malenchenko, Russian cosmonaut
Daniel Tani, NASA astronaut
Leopold Eyharts, European Space Agency astronaut
Garrett Reisman, NASA astronaut (Backup: Timothy Kopra)

Expedition 17
Sergei Volkov, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Maxim Suraev)
Oleg Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Oleg Skripochka)
Gregory Chamitoff, NASA astronaut (Backup: Timothy Kopra)
Sandra Magnus, NASA astronaut (Backup: Nicole Stott)

Expedition 18
Michael Fincke, NASA astronaut (Backup: Michael Barratt)
Salizhan Sharipov, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Yuri Lonchakov)
Koichi Wakata, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut (Backup:
Soichi Noguchi)

[shuttlegirl]

Je n'y ai jamais fait attention mais en voyant ceci :

Sandra Magnus, NASA astronaut (Backup: Nicole Stott)

je me pose une question : est-ce que les back-up des femmes sont toujours (ou souvent) des femmes ?

[nikolai39]

Non, ici c'est un hasard...

[patchfree]

Décidément je comprends rien aux prévisions des "crews" (les équipages). La Nasa fait une mise à jour mais je ne comprends pas pourquoi l'expédition 16 comprend 5 cosmonautes, la 17 seulement 4 et la 18 encore moins: 3!

Un jour ils vont perdre un astronaute: il sera dans la station mais non programmé pour un retour...ah ah j'espère qu'ils suivent bien tout ça. Quand je pense qu'il faut sans cesse modifier les programmes de travail...je me demande quand même si le travail scientifique est bien fait et comment ils font pour que le matos et l'homme qui doit s'en servir soient en même temps dans l'ISS...

[vp]

En fait, c'est du à la rotation du 3e membre d'équipage.

Jusqu'à mi 2009, il y aura en permanence 3 personnes.
Dans chaque expédition il y en a 2 qui reste 6 mois et le 3e membre change au gré des vols de la navette (c'est le cas de Eyharts).

A partir de mi 2009, il y aura 6 membes d'équipages ...

[jassifun]

http://astro.zeto.czest.pl/loty/sts128.htm

Il y a un petit malin en Pologne qui semble penser que Fuglesang est sur STS-128.

[vp]

RELEASE: 08-052

NASA ASSIGNS CREWS FOR STS-127 AND EXPEDITION 19 MISSIONS

WASHINGTON - NASA has assigned crews for the STS-127 space shuttle mission and the Expedition 19 International Space Station mission.
The STS-127 mission will deliver the final components of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory to the station. Expedition 19 will double the size of the resident crew on the complex, expanding it to six people.

Mark L. Polansky will command the shuttle Endeavour for STS-127, targeted to launch in 2009. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Douglas G. Hurley will serve as the pilot. Mission specialists are Navy Lt. Cmdr. Christopher J. Cassidy, Thomas H. Marshburn, David A. Wolf and Julie Payette, a Canadian Space Agency astronaut.

The mission will deliver Army Col. Timothy L. Kopra to the station to join Expedition 18 as a flight engineer and science officer and return Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata to Earth. Hurley, Cassidy, Marshburn and Kopra will be making their first trips to space.

STS-127 will launch and install the Kibo Japanese Experiment Module Exposed Facility and Experiment Logistics Module Exposed Section. The facility will provide a type of "front porch" for experiments in the exposed environment, and a robotic arm that will be attached to the Kibo Pressurized Module and used to position experiments outside the station. The mission will include five spacewalks.

Polansky first flew as pilot of STS-98 in 2001 and then commanded STS-116 in 2006. He considers Edison, N.J., his hometown. Polansky has bachelor's and master's degrees from Purdue University.

Hurley considers Apalachin, N.Y., his hometown. He has a bachelor's from Tulane University, New Orleans.

Cassidy considers York, Maine, his hometown and has a bachelor's from the U.S. Naval Academy and a master's from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Born in Statesville, N.C., Marshburn has a bachelor's from Davidson College, Davidson, N.C., master's degrees from the University of Virginia and the University of Texas Medical Branch, and a doctorate of medicine from Wake Forest University.

A native of Indianapolis, Wolf will be making his fourth spaceflight. He first flew on STS-58 in 1993. He next flew a 128-day mission to the Russian space station Mir, launching aboard STS-86 in September 1997 and landing on STS-89 in January 1998. His third flight was on STS-112 in 2002. Wolf has a bachelor's from Purdue University and a doctorate of medicine from Indiana University.

Payette, born in Montreal, flew as a mission specialist on STS-96 in 1999. She has an International Baccalaureate from the United World College of the Atlantic in the United Kingdom, a bachelor's from McGill University and a master's from the University of Toronto.

Kopra is a native of Austin, Texas, and holds a bachelor's from the U.S. Military Academy and a master's from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Expedition 19 will be commanded by cosmonaut and Russian Air Force Col. Gennady Padalka. In March 2009, he will command the Soyuz spacecraft that will launch him and astronaut Michael R. Barratt to the station. Astronaut Nicole P. Stott will join them, arriving on the STS-128 shuttle mission to replace Kopra. She will serve as a flight engineer and science officer and return to Earth on the next Soyuz spacecraft. Barratt and Stott will be making their first trips to space.

In May 2009, cosmonaut and Russian Air Force Lt. Col. Yuri Lonchakov will command a Soyuz spacecraft that will launch to join Expedition 19 in progress on the station. With Lonchakov will be European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne of Belgium and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert B. Thirsk. Their arrival will expand the station's crew size to six for the first time. Lonchakov and De Winne will serve as flight engineers on the station and return on the Soyuz with Stott. Thirsk also will serve as a flight engineer and will return to Earth on STS-129.

Expedition 19 will include visits by two space shuttle missions that will equip the station with the additional facilities needed to support a six-person crew. Expedition 19 also will prepare the station for the later arrival of Russian research modules and additional docking ports.

Padalka commanded Expedition 26 on Mir in 1998 and 1999, and Expedition 9 on the ISS in 2004. He was born in Krasnodar, Russia, and graduated from Eisk Military Aviation College.

Barratt considers Camas, Wash., his hometown. He has a bachelor's from the University of Washington, a master's from Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, and a doctorate of medicine from Northwestern University.

Stott considers Clearwater, Fla., her hometown. She has a bachelor's from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a master's from the University of Central Florida.

Lonchakov flew as a mission specialist on STS-100 in 2001. Born in Balkhash, Dzhezkazkansk Region, he graduated from the Orenburg Air Force Pilot School and the Zhukovski Air Force Academy.

De Winne flew an 11-day mission as a flight engineer on a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station in 2002. He was born in Ghent, Belgium, and graduated from the Royal School of Cadets. He has a master's from the Royal Military Academy.

Thirsk flew on STS-78 in 1996. He was born in New Westminster, British Columbia, and has a bachelor's from the University of Calgary, masters' degrees from MIT and a doctorate of medicine from McGill University.

Backup expedition crew assignments also have been made. A summary of Expedition 19's assigned crews and backups are:

Gennady Padalka, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Maxim Suraev)
Mike Barratt, NASA astronaut (Backup: Shannon Walker)
Timothy Kopra, NASA astronaut (Backup: Timothy J. Creamer)
Nicole Stott, NASA astronaut (Backup: Catherine Coleman)
Yuri Lonchakov, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Dmitri Kondratyev)
Frank De Winne, ESA astronaut (Backup: Andre Kuipers)
Robert Thirsk, CSA Astronaut (Backup: Chris A. Hadfield)

Video of the STS-127 and Expedition 19 crew members will air on NASA TV's Video File at 7 p.m. EST. For downlink and scheduling information and links to streaming video, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For complete astronaut biographical information, visit:

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios

For more information about NASA's Space Shuttle Program, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle

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[nikolai39]

Expedition 19 will be commanded by cosmonaut and Russian Air Force
Col. Gennady Padalka. In March 2009, he will command the Soyuz
spacecraft that will launch him and astronaut Michael R. Barratt to
the station. Astronaut Nicole P. Stott will join them, arriving on
the STS-128 shuttle mission to replace Kopra. She will serve as a
flight engineer and science officer and return to Earth on the next
Soyuz spacecraft. Barratt and Stott will be making their first trips
to space.

In May 2009, cosmonaut and Russian Air Force Lt. Col. Yuri Lonchakov
will command a Soyuz spacecraft that will launch to join Expedition
19 in progress on the station. With Lonchakov will be European Space
Agency astronaut Frank De Winne of Belgium and Canadian Space Agency
astronaut Robert B. Thirsk. Their arrival will expand the station's
crew size to six for the first time. Lonchakov and De Winne will
serve as flight engineers on the station and return on the Soyuz with
Stott. Thirsk also will serve as a flight engineer and will return to
Earth on STS-129.

Quelle joie ça va être ! Dire que c'est dans à peine un an ! :bounce1:

Je suis vraiment content qu'on commence les expéditions à six avec un Européen ET un Canadien ! :cadeauesa:

Par contre, quel bor*** avec les rotations ! :D

[Skyboy]

Ça va être la fête à bord !!! :cadeau: :bounce1: :cadeauesa:

[Dirk De Winne]

Quelle joie ça va être ! Dire que c'est dans à peine un an ! :bounce1:

Je suis vraiment content qu'on commence les expéditions à six avec un Européen ET un Canadien ! :cadeauesa:

Par contre, quel bor*** avec les rotations ! :D

T'inquiète ça va doucement se simplifier. A partir de l'expedition 20, un soyouz pour monter à 3, le même pour descendre (x2). Je crois que les shuttle ne feront plus les rotations d'équipage.

[Aragatz]

RELEASE: 08-005

NASA UPDATES INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CREW ASSIGNMENTS

HOUSTON - NASA has updated assignments for International Space Station expedition crews. The updates reflect changes in the launch schedule for space shuttle missions that will transport rotating crew members.


Astronaut Garrett E. Reisman, a member of the Expedition 16 and 17 crews, now is scheduled to return to Earth on the STS-124 shuttle
mission, which is targeted to launch April 24, 2008. He originally was slated to return on STS-126. As planned, Reisman will fly to the
station on STS-123, which is targeted to launch in March. He is a native of New Jersey and has a doctorate in mechanical engineering
from the California Institute of Technology.

Astronaut Gregory E. Chamitoff is scheduled to fly to the station as a mission specialist on STS-124. He will take Reisman's place as an
Expedition 17 flight engineer and return to Earth on shuttle mission STS-126, which is targeted to launch Sept. 18, 2008. Chamitoff, who
was born in Montreal, Canada, grew up in San Jose, Calif. He has a doctorate in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.

Astronaut Sandra H. Magnus will fly to the station on STS-126 to replace Chamitoff. Magnus, a native of Illinois with a doctorate in
material science and engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, will serve as a flight engineer and NASA science officer
for part of Expedition 17 and part of Expedition 18. Magnus will return to Earth on shuttle mission STS-119 in the fall of 2008.

Astronaut Koichi Wakata will launch on STS-119 and become the first resident station crew member from the Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency, or JAXA, replacing Magnus on Expedition 18. Wakata will serve as a flight engineer on Expedition 18 and return on STS-127.

Backup crew assignments also have been updated. They are included in the following International Space Station crew lineup:

Expedition 16
Peggy Whitson, NASA astronaut
Yuri Malenchenko, Russian cosmonaut
Daniel Tani, NASA astronaut
Leopold Eyharts, European Space Agency astronaut
Garrett Reisman, NASA astronaut (Backup: Timothy Kopra)

Expedition 17
Sergei Volkov, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Maxim Suraev)
Oleg Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Oleg Skripochka)
Gregory Chamitoff, NASA astronaut (Backup: Timothy Kopra)
Sandra Magnus, NASA astronaut (Backup: Nicole Stott)

Expedition 18
Michael Fincke, NASA astronaut (Backup: Michael Barratt)
Salizhan Sharipov, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Yuri Lonchakov)
Koichi Wakata, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut (Backup:
Soichi Noguchi)

Je sais que Léo Eyharts avait été suppléant de Thomas Reiter en 2006, mais qui était son suppléant pour STS-22 ?

[Aspic]

Je sais que Léo Eyharts avait été suppléant de Thomas Reiter en 2006, mais qui était son suppléant pour STS-22 ?

Devine : Frank De Winne (lui même avec une doublure pour Exp. 19 : André Kuipers).

[nikolai39]

Devine : Frank De Winne

Pas mal ! :D

[Phobos]

De bonnes nouvelles pour nous au Canada et au Québec!

Julie Payette s'envolera à bord de la navette spatiale Endeavour lors de la mission STS-127, dont le décollage est prévu pour le mois d'avril 2009

En mai 2009, Robert Thirsk se joindra quant à lui à l'équipage de la mission Expedition 19 et deviendra ainsi le premier Canadien à effectuer un séjour prolongé de quatre à six mois à la Station spatiale internationale

http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/fr/media/communiques/2008/0211.asp

[jassifun]

Elle est de plus en plus maigre... j'espère que ce n'est pas le premier cas d'anorexie spatiale...

[jassifun]

http://astro.zeto.czest.pl/loty/stma18.htm

Kuipers pour Exp. 21 / Soyuz TMA-18 ??

[Phobos]

L'astronaute canadien Dave Williams quitte son poste d'astronaute (1er mars 2008).

Il aura en tout effectué 2 missions dont sts-118 en 2007, où il avait participé à 3 sorties extravéhiculaires totalisant plus de 17 heures passés dans le vide de l'espace. C'est donc lui qui détient le record canadien, avec exactement 17h 47min à l'extérieur de l'ISS!

En tout, Dave Williams a parcouru plus de 18 millions de kilomètres et séjourné vingt-huit jours, quinze heures, quarante-cinq minutes et trente-trois secondes dans l'espace

J'aime bien ce genre de stats :affraid: ;) .

http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/fr/media/communiques/2008/0229.asp

[Ripley]

http://astro.zeto.czest.pl/loty/stma18.htm

Kuipers pour Exp. 21 / Soyuz TMA-18 ??

Excellent site : Le programme Apollo est là ; Apolloman, prends ton dico de polonais. :blbl:

[jassifun]

David Low est mort hier d'un cancer du côlon.

[Vonfeld]

David Low : 52 ans , 3 missions :STS32, 43, 57 et... "Son of former Apollo-Flight Director George Low"


http://www.spacefacts.de/more/astronauts/page/low_david.htm

VONFELD