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Thomas Marshburn
Thomas Henry Marshburn is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of three spaceflights to the International Space Station and holds the record for the oldest person to perform a spacewalk at 61 years old.
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Born 29 August 1960 · Q520384
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2022· 1 entry
Career landmark: ISS commander (2022–2022).
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2021· 2 entries
SpaceRef: The World Beneath Thomas Marshburn’s Feet
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Marshburn launched on the SpaceX Crew-3 spaceflight as part of the long duration Expedition 66 mission onboard the ISS
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2019· 1 entry
Served as a backup flight engineer for the Soyuz MS-13 and Soyuz MS-15 long-duration flights to the ISS, first backing up Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano, and the American-Swedish astronaut Jessica Meir
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2013· 2 entries
Won NASA Distinguished Service Medal (2013).
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Marshburn and Expedition 35 flight engineer Christopher Cassidy performed an unplanned spacewalk to replace a pump controller box suspected to be the source of an ammonia coolant leak
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2012· 1 entry
From the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, along with crew members Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko
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2003· 1 entry
Supporting from Russia, Kazakhstan and Houston
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1995· 1 entry
Worked as an emergency physician in area hospitals in Houston, Texas, and at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts
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1989· 1 entry
And a Master of Medical Science degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1997
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1982· 1 entry
And a Master of Science degree in engineering physics from the University of Virginia in 1984
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1960· 1 entry
Born 1960-08-29.
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