NASA career Thomas Marshburn

thomas marshburn during water survival training @ pensacola naval air station.

marshburn joined nasa in november 1994, serving flight surgeon @ johnson space center in houston, texas. assigned space shuttle medical operations , joint us/russian space program. february 1996 may 1997 served flight surgeon nasa personnel deployed yuri gagarin cosmonauts training center, star city, russia, followed work in center flight control in korolyov, russia, in support of nasa expedition 4 mir space station. july 1997 august 1998 co-chair of medical operations shuttle/mir space program. 1998 2000, deputy flight surgeon neuronal (sts-98) , lead flight surgeon sts-101 mission international space station (iss).

after spending ten months nasa representative harvard/mit smart medical systems team of national space biomedical research institute in boston, massachusetts, worked lead flight surgeon expedition 7 iss in 2003, supporting russia, kazakhstan , houston. until selected astronaut candidate, marshburn served medical operations lead iss. activities included development of biomedical training program flight surgeons , astronaut crew medical officers, , managing iss health maintenance system.

marshburn selected in may 2004 nasa astronaut. completed astronaut candidate training in february 2006. included scientific , technical briefings, intensive instruction in shuttle , international space station systems, physiological training, t-38 flight training , water , wilderness survival training. qualified various technical assignments within astronaut office , future flight assignments mission specialist. marshburn s first flight on sts-127, lifted off on july 15, 2009 @ 6:03 p.m. edt , landed on july 31, 2009. mission delivered japanese-built exposed facility (jem-ef) , experiment logistics module exposed section (elm-es) international space station. marshburn took part in 3 spacewalks during mission.

thomas marshburn in 2014

in may 2010, marshburn served aquanaut during neemo 14 mission aboard aquarius underwater laboratory, living , working underwater fourteen days.

marshburn served flight engineer on expedition 34/35 international space station, launching aboard soyuz tma-07m on december 19, 2012, baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan, along crew members chris hadfield of canadian space agency , russian cosmonaut roman romanenko. crew welcomed aboard iss expedition 34 commander kevin a. ford , cosmonauts evgeny tarelkin , oleg novitskiy. on may 11, 2013, marshburn , expedition 35 flight engineer christopher cassidy performed unplanned spacewalk replace pump controller box suspected source of ammonia coolant leak. marshburn , crew returned earth on may 13, 2013.