HSL Meeting

Thursday, December 1, 2022
12-1pm
Room 33-206

Zoom link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/96531308383

Thomas Marshburn, NASA

Long and Short Duration Spaceflight Experiences Compared

Speaker Bio:
Dr. Thomas H. Marshburn was selected by NASA in 2004.  He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Davidson College, North Carolina; a Masters in Engineering Physics from the University of Virginia; a Doctorate of Medicine from Wake Forest University; and a Masters in Medical Science from the University of Texas Medical Branch.  The North Carolina native is a veteran of three spaceflights, STS-127, Expedition 34/35, and Expedition 66/67 as part of Crew-3.  Prior to becoming an astronaut, Dr. Marshburn served as a Flight Surgeon, assigned to Space Shuttle Medical Operations and to the joint U.S./Russian Space Program and eventually became the Medical Operations Lead for the International Space Station.  He served as pilot of the NASA SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station, which launched on November 10, 2021.  Marshburn served as a flight engineer on Expedition 66 and commander of Expedition 67 during that mission.  NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts safely splashed down Friday, May 6, 2022, aboard the Dragon Endurance spacecraft completing the agency’s third long-duration commercial crew mission to the International Space Station.  The international crew of four spent 177 days in orbit.

More details: https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/thomas-h-marshburn/biography