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Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #1100 on: 01/24/2009 07:15 pm »
Are the flight assignments for 132 due out anytime soon, or are they waiting to see what happens with the shuttle program to see if it extended?  Miss seeing all the flight crew predictions.

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Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #1101 on: 01/24/2009 09:48 pm »
Flight crews are generally assigned about one years before the flight. Yes, I know that the STS-131 crew was already announced, but I would not expect to see a crew for STS-132 until late February/early March.

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Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #1102 on: 01/24/2009 10:11 pm »
I realize that, just like seeing what other people are thinking about the flight crews, and don't want to look moronic by just randomly posting predictions without any feedback.

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Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #1103 on: 01/25/2009 08:38 pm »
How many crew members will 132 and 133 have? Have they done crew-size planning yet?

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Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #1104 on: 01/25/2009 08:44 pm »
How many crew members will 132 and 133 have? Have they done crew-size planning yet?

I think we'll just have to wait until the crew is announed, but it's likely to be 6 or 7 as usual... :)

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Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #1105 on: 01/28/2009 10:18 pm »
Is Satoshi Furukawa supposed to launch on soyuz tma 23, and if so has any one heard who will launch with him.

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Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #1106 on: 02/08/2009 06:08 pm »
Does anyone happen to know the EVA assignments for STS-129 and onwards?  Know this may not be the right thread, but still curious.

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Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #1107 on: 03/03/2009 05:13 pm »
NASA ANNOUNCES CHANGE FOR RETURN OF STATION CREW MEMBERS


HOUSTON -- The International Space Station Program has announced a
change in how two future crew members will return home. NASA
astronaut Nicole Stott and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert
Thirsk will swap seats on the space shuttle and Russian Soyuz
spacecraft to help ensure a timely homecoming for Thirsk.

Thirsk will launch to the station on a Soyuz in May and return to
Earth on that same vehicle in November, instead of aboard space
shuttle Atlantis at the end of the STS-129 mission. Stott, who will
launch to the station on shuttle Discovery's STS-128 mission, will
return aboard Atlantis with the STS-129 crew. She had been slated to
come home aboard the Soyuz that Thirsk now will occupy.

The change is in case of delays to future shuttle missions,
specifically STS-129, which currently is scheduled to launch in
November 2009. Such a delay could result in extending Thirsk's
mission beyond the six-month duration preferred for station crew
members.

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Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #1108 on: 03/04/2009 12:29 am »
I know they wont but it would be nice if the last three flights go something like this.

STS-132
CDR:Pam Melroy
PLT:Greg Johnson
MS:Anna Fisher
MS:Dan Burbank
MS:Stan Love
MS:Piers Sellers
MS:Al Drew

STS-133
CDR:Mark Kelly
PLT:Ken Ham
MS:Rex Walheim
MS:Steve Bowen
MS:Don Pettit
MS:Karen Nyberg
MS:Heidi Piper

STS-134
CMD:Chris Ferguson
PLT:Eric Boe
MS:Shane Kimbrough
MS:Scott Parasynski
MS:Garrett Reisman
MS:Dan Tani
MS:Mike Fossum

                                 

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Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #1109 on: 03/04/2009 03:22 am »
These are very rough predictions and are just for fun, worried about too much EVA experience on some flights, please comment and critique

STS-132                    STS-133                  STS-134
CDR: Greg Johnson      CDR: Pam Melroy        CDR: Chris Ferguson
PLT: Ron Garan           PLT: Ken Ham           PLT: Eric Boe
MS: Stan Love            MS: Steve Bowen      MS: Rex Walheim
MS: Anna Fisher          MS: Karen Nyberg      MS: Peggy Whitson
MS: Al Drew               MS: Mike Fossum       MS: Shane Kimbrough
MS: Garrett Reisman    MS: Dan Tani            MS: Piers Sellers
MS: Janet Kavandi      MS: Roberto Vittori     MS: Greg Chamitoff

Think this is relatively accurate, not sure about Ron Garan because of Expedition rumors, and wouldn't be surprised to see Mark Kelly on STS-134 if it flies, since Scott Kelly would be starting his Expedition tour around that time period.

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Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #1110 on: 03/04/2009 06:53 pm »
Yes, I'm wondering if some astronauts will switch back from station to shuttle side: ie Tani and Reisman. I honestly can't see them giving Ferguson a second command when Ham and the Johnsons (from the same group) will either get no second flight at all or a reflight as a PLT.

My guesses would be:

STS-132
CDR: Gregory H. Johnson
PLT: Eric A. Boe
MS: Daniel M. Tani
MS: Piers J. Sellers
MS: Roberto A. Vittori
MS: B. Alvin Drew, Jr
MS: Stanley G. Love

STS-133
CDR: Kenneth T. Ham
PLT: Dominic A. Antonelli
MS: Rex J. Walheim
MS: Garrett E. Reisman
MS: Karen L. Nyberg
MS: Stephen G. Bowen
MS: R. Shane Kimbrough

Don't even want to speculate on STS-134. Maybe Melroy or Kelly as CDR? I doubt that Gregory C. Johnson could recycle from STS-125 in time for a CDR slot. It's fun to speculate!

Let's hope we'll soon see how close - or far - we were from the truth!

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Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #1111 on: 03/05/2009 12:45 am »
Is there a chance Scott Parazynski or Mike Foale will get assigned to one of the last three shuttle missions?

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Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #1112 on: 03/05/2009 02:10 am »
Is there a chance Scott Parazynski or Mike Foale will get assigned to one of the last three shuttle missions?
I doubt Mike Foale will get another assignment. He's already had six trips to space including two long-duration missions. If he were to get another trip, I would expect it would be a long-duration mission.

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Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #1113 on: 03/05/2009 03:17 am »
Is there a chance Scott Parazynski or Mike Foale will get assigned to one of the last three shuttle missions?
Parazynski's also a long shot, since he's already flown 4 flights, and their seems to be an unspoken 4-flight max rule post Columbia, may be wrong though

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Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #1114 on: 03/05/2009 07:27 pm »
Is there a chance Scott Parazynski or Mike Foale will get assigned to one of the last three shuttle missions?
Parazynski's also a long shot, since he's already flown 4 flights, and their seems to be an unspoken 4-flight max rule post Columbia, may be wrong though

He actually is one of two that it seems an exception to the rule was made for. STS-120 was Parazynski's fifth flight. John Grunsfeld will be making his fifth as well on STS-125. I doubt Parazynski will be making another.

Does the "four flights" rule apply to shuttle missions only? If so, maybe they have chances at ISS Expeditions.

Mike Gernhardt should get a fifth flight in my book. He was on the roster for STS-119 for so long...I don't know if him leaving the flight was his call or not, but with everyone having flown by STS-131, he deserves another shot. Besides, one of those four flights he had was basically a repeat that got right what went wrong during the first attempt (STS 83/STS 94).

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Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #1115 on: 03/06/2009 12:06 pm »
I remember reading an interview with Jerry Ross, just before he flew STS-110, in which he was asked if he expected his seven-flight record to stand for a long time. He replied that it would worry him if it did stand unchallenged for a long time, because it would indicate that progress was not being made on getting people into space more frequently.

Looks like the very thing Ross feared might happen IS actually happening.


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Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #1116 on: 03/06/2009 12:59 pm »
please comment and critique

STS-132                    STS-133                  STS-134
CDR: Greg Johnson      CDR: Pam Melroy        CDR: Chris Ferguson
PLT: Ron Garan           PLT: Ken Ham           PLT: Eric Boe

I think they never repeat the same pair (Ferguson-Boe) of CDR/PLT, except for the STS83 / STS94 reflight.

I’d like to see Peggy WHITSON in one of the latest shuttle flights.   She has flied twice but only in Soyuz. 
Just for tasting a smooth landing… ;)

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Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #1117 on: 03/06/2009 01:16 pm »
I’d like to see Peggy WHITSON in one of the latest shuttle flights.   She has flied twice but only in Soyuz. 
Just for tasting a smooth landing… ;)

Actually, her first flight was with Expedition 5 when full crew rotations were still on the shuttle. Expedition 5 launched on STS-111 and landed with STS-113.
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Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #1118 on: 03/06/2009 01:41 pm »
please comment and critique

STS-132                    STS-133                  STS-134
CDR: Greg Johnson      CDR: Pam Melroy        CDR: Chris Ferguson
PLT: Ron Garan           PLT: Ken Ham           PLT: Eric Boe

I think they never repeat the same pair (Ferguson-Boe) of CDR/PLT, except for the STS83 / STS94 reflight.

I’d like to see Peggy WHITSON in one of the latest shuttle flights.   She has flied twice but only in Soyuz. 
Just for tasting a smooth landing… ;)


Tom Henricks and Kevin Kregel flew as a repeat commander/pilot pairing (STS-70 and STS-78?) I think this was a deliberate exercise to see whether such an approach could improve flight crew efficiency or something. It was never adopted though.
« Last Edit: 03/06/2009 01:42 pm by aurora899 »

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Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #1119 on: 03/06/2009 07:31 pm »
Tom Henricks and Kevin Kregel flew as a repeat commander/pilot pairing (STS-70 and STS-78?) I think this was a deliberate exercise to see whether such an approach could improve flight crew efficiency or something. It was never adopted though.

You could also count STS 83 and STS 94 (Jim Halsell and Sue Kilrain), though that was a re-flight of the same mission.

Deke Slayton's off-the-book's recommendation was to have a set of CDR-PLT teams that would stay together for several flights.

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