National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Robert S. Kimbrough
United States of America

Retired
Biography
/01Robert Shane Kimbrough is a retired United States Army officer, and a NASA astronaut. He was part of the first group of candidates selected for NASA astronaut training following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Kimbrough is a veteran of two spaceflights, the first being a Space Shuttle flight, and the second being a 6-month mission to the ISS on board a Russian Soyuz craft. He was the commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 50 and later spent 6 months on the ISS as part of the SpaceX Crew-2 mission. He retired from NASA on July 31, 2022.
Type
Government
Age
58
Date of Birth
June 4, 1967
First Flight
November 15, 2008
Last Flight
April 23, 2021
Career Stats
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Flights
3
Landings
9
Spacewalks
P388DT17H28M5S
Time in Space