{"637324":{"#nid":"637324","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Graduate Named Commander of SpaceX Crew-2 Mission to Space Station","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech engineering graduate and astronaut Shane Kimbrough will serve as a spacecraft commander for a collaborative mission between NASA and SpaceX.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKimbrough will lead Crew-2, a planned group of four astronauts aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft flight to the International Space Station as part of NASA\u0026rsquo;s Commercial Crew Program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECrew-2 is currently scheduled to launch in spring 2021, after the completion of NASA\u0026rsquo;s SpaceX Demo-2 test flight mission, which is expected to return to Earth Aug. 2, and the launch of NASA\u0026rsquo;s SpaceX Crew-1 mission, planned for late September of this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECrew-2 will remain aboard the space station for six months, joining up with three crewmates who will arrive via a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKimbrough grew up in the Atlanta metro area and received a master\u0026rsquo;s degree in operations research in 1998 from Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He was selected to be an astronaut in 2004. This will be his third trip to space.\\\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-announces-astronauts-to-fly-on-spacex-crew-2-mission-to-space-station\u0022\u003ERead more about NASA\u0026rsquo;s SpaceX Crew-2 Mission to Space Station.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKimbrough is one of 14 Georgia Tech astronaut graduates, which ties the Institute for second most among public universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech engineering graudate Shane Kimbrough selected to be commander of a NASA commercial crew partnership mission with SpaceX.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Shane Kimbrough selected to be commander of NASA\u2019s next commercial crew mission"}],"uid":"28058","created_gmt":"2020-07-28 16:19:37","changed_gmt":"2020-07-28 19:07:23","author":"Steven Norris","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-07-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-07-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"637325":{"id":"637325","type":"image","title":"Shane Kimbrough Selected for NASA Commercial Crew Mission ","body":null,"created":"1595953259","gmt_created":"2020-07-28 16:20:59","changed":"1595953259","gmt_changed":"2020-07-28 16:20:59","alt":"Georgia Tech grad an astronaut Shane Kimbrough","file":{"fid":"242439","name":"kimbrough_flag_6.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/kimbrough_flag_6.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/kimbrough_flag_6.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":57314,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/kimbrough_flag_6.jpg?itok=NL6hB7PK"}}},"media_ids":["637325"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESteven Norris\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["snorris@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}