NASA career Randolph Bresnik

1 nasa career

1.1 spaceflight experience
1.2 sts-129
1.3 expedition 52/53

nasa career

sts 129: bresnik participates in mission s second session of extravehicular activity

bresnik selected nasa in may 2004 astronaut candidate. 1 of 2 pilots chosen in astronaut class of 2004. in february 2006, completed astronaut candidate training. bresnik participated in first analogue esa caves mission on september 2011, staying underground , exploring caves 6 days, simulating mars mission technologies.

on june 10, 2014, nasa announced bresnik command neemo 19 undersea exploration mission aboard aquarius underwater laboratory, began on september 7, 2014 , lasted 7 days.

spaceflight experience
sts-129

in november 2009, flew mission specialist on sts-129. participated in second , third spacewalks of mission. bresnik s 2 spacewalks totalled 11 hours , 50 minutes. wife rebecca gave birth daughter, abigail mae bresnik on 21 november 2009 @ 11:04 p.m. cst, while on orbit.

expedition 52/53

bresnik(right) pictured paolo nespoli in columbus module

bresnik launched aboard soyuz ms-05 iss on 28 july 2017, , served flight engineer expedition 52, , iss commander expedition 53. on october 5, 2017, bresnik performed third spacewalk, along mark vande hei. spacewalk replaced gripping mechanism on canadarm2, latching end effector a, or lee-a. spacewalk duration 6 hours , 55 minutes. on october 10, 2017, bresnik , vande hei completed second eva of mission. lubricated newly installed end effector , replaced cameras, , duration 6 hours , 26 minutes. on october 20, 2017, bresnik , joe acaba performed eva continue lubrication tasks, , install more cameras. duration 6 hours , 49 minutes.