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Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station along with Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata. During his stay aboard the space station, Mastracchio conducted three spacewalks, the first two to remove and replace a faulty cooling pump, and the third to remove and replace a failed backup computer relay box. Mastracchio, Tyurin and Wakata returned to Earth after 188 days in space. During the expedition, the crew completed 3,008 orbits of the Earth and traveled more than 79.8 million miles.
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On arrival at the station, Discovery's crew dropped off more than 27,000 pounds of hardware, supplies and equipment, including a tank full of ammonia coolant, new crew sleeping quarters, and three experiment racks. As the EVA lead, Mastracchio performed three spacewalks during this mission and logged
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inside Discovery's payload bay was packed with over 6,000 pounds of hardware, science results, and trash. The STS-131 mission was accomplished in 15 days, 02 hours, 47 minutes, 10 seconds, and traveled 6,232,235 statute miles in 238 orbits. Mastracchio launched on Expedition 38/39 from the Baikonur
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and the other station modules. Mastracchio was the ascent/entry flight engineer, the primary robotic arm operator, and responsible for the transfer of items from the Space Shuttle to the Space Station. STS-106 orbited the Earth 185 times, and covered 4.9 million miles in 11 days, 19 hours, and 10
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Endeavour (August 8–21, 2007) was the 119th space shuttle flight, the 22nd flight to the station, and the 20th flight for Endeavour. During the mission Endeavour's crew successfully added another truss segment, a new gyroscope and external spare parts platform to the International Space Station.
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Atlantis (September 8–20, 2000). During the 12-day mission, the crew prepared the International Space Station for the arrival of the first permanent crew. The five astronauts and two cosmonauts delivered more than 6,600 pounds of supplies and installed batteries, power converters, a toilet and a
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In April 1996, Mastracchio was selected as an astronaut candidate and started training in August 1996. Having completed two years of training and evaluation, he is qualified for flight assignment as a mission specialist. Mastracchio has worked technical issues for the Astronaut Office Computer
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From 1993 until 1996, he worked as an ascent/entry Guidance and Procedures Officer (GPO) in Mission Control. An ascent/entry GPO has both pre-mission and real time Space Shuttle support responsibilities in the areas of onboard guidance, navigation, and targeting. During that time, he supported
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Mastracchio was the ascent/entry flight engineer and participated in three of the four spacewalks. Traveling 5.3 million miles in space, the STS-118 mission was completed in 12 days, 17 hours, 55 minutes and 34 seconds.
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in Connecticut as an engineer in the system design group from 1982 until 1987. During that time, he participated in the development of high performance, inertial measurement units and flight control computers.
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aboard the International Space Station and was one of the astronauts repairing the malfunctioning main cooling system during the mission. He returned to Earth on May 13, 2014.
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Discovery (April 5–20, 2010), a resupply mission to the International Space Station, was launched at night from the Kennedy Space Center.
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The Soyuz followed the new rendezvous profile, and the crew docked with the ISS approximately 6 hours after launching from the
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treadmill. Two crewmembers performed a spacewalk to connect power, data and communications cables between the newly arrived
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Support Branch, for Space Station Operations, and the EVA Branch. He next served as lead for cockpit avionics upgrades.
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On June 19, 2017, Mastracchio was appointed Senior Director of Operations for Commercial Resupply Services at
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Mastracchio, Tyurin and Wakata returned to Earth on May 14, 2014, after spending nearly 188 days in space.
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in 1978. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering/computer science from the
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20 hours and 17 minutes of extravehicular activity. On the return journey, the Leonardo
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The STS-106 crew on the ISS. Mastracchio is pictured on the top row, second right
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in 1987, and a Master of Science degree in physical science from the
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in 1982, a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from
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Mastracchio launched for his fourth space flight onboard
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Mastracchio performed 3 EVAs during the mission, 2 with
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in April 2010. He has logged over 5,461 hours in space.
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Mastracchio (right) pictured next to the Soyuz rocket
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Richard A. Mastracchio

Waterbury, Connecticut
University of Connecticut
BS
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
MS
University of Houston
MS
NASA astronaut
NASA Group 16 (1996)
EVAs
STS-106
STS-118
STS-131
Soyuz TMA-11M
Expedition 38
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engineer
NASA
astronaut
mission specialist
Soyuz TMA-11M
Expedition 38
Expedition 39

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