Astronaut Profiles
Mini-docs profiling some of NASA’s most interesting employees, Astronauts.
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"I have dreamt of becoming an astronaut since my childhood."
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide was born on December 28th, 1968 in Tokyo, Japan. He received a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Keio University in 1992, and a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Houston, Cullen College of Engineering in 1997. He is the third Japanese astronaut to walk in space and has flown on both the Space Shuttle and Soyuz spacecraft. He launches on April 23rd at 5:49 a.m. aboard the NASA SpaceX Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station.
"I love it, it doesn't matter what I'm flying, it's just incredible."
NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough was born June 4, 1967, in Killeen, Texas. He graduated from The Lovett School, Atlanta, Georgia, in 1985; received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, in 1989 and a Master of Science degree in Operations Research from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998. He has completed 6 spacewalks and logged 189 days in space. He has flown on both the Space Shuttle and Soyuz spacecraft. He launches on April 23nd at 5:49 a.m. aboard the NASA SpaceX Crew-2 mission to the International space station.
NASA astronaut Kayla Barron is a member of the Artemis Team, a select group of astronauts charged with focusing on the development and training efforts for early Artemis missions.
Through the Artemis program NASA and a coalition of international partners will return to the Moon to learn how to live on other worlds for the benefit of all. With Artemis missions NASA will send the first woman and the next man to the Moon in 2024 and about once per year thereafter.