Fri, Jan 06, 2006
Williams/Vinogradov Will Head To ISS In March
NASA and its international partners have selected astronaut
Jeffrey Williams and Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov as the next
crew for the International Space Station, designated as Expedition
13.
Williams is a US Army colonel, and veteran of one space flight.
He flew aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis as a mission specialist
in May 2000, on a 10-day space station assembly mission. During
that mission, he performed a spacewalk lasting almost seven hours.
He will serve as Expedition 13 flight engineer and NASA science
officer.
Williams is a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point,
and has master's degrees from the Naval Postgraduate School,
Monterey, CA, and the Naval War College. He was selected as an
astronaut in 1996.
Vinogradov's space-legs were developed as a veteran of one
long-duration spaceflight, when he flew aboard Russia's Mir station
as flight engineer for 198 days in 1997. During the mission, he
performed five spacewalks. A graduate of Moscow Aviation Institute,
he was selected as a cosmonaut in 1992. Vinogradov (above) will
command Expedition 13.
Astronaut Mike Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin
were selected to train as the back-up crew.
Williams (above) and Vinogradov will launch aboard a Russian
Soyuz (TMA-8) in March 2006. After a changing of the guard, the
current Expedition 12 crew, Commander Bill McArthur and Flight
Engineer Valery Tokarev, will return to Earth aboard the same Soyuz
capsule.
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