CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX’s third crew has an attack helicopter pilot, a former Air France pilot, a Japanese rocket scientist and an oceanographer.
The four veteran astronauts should reach the International Space Station on Saturday for a six-month stay, following Friday's liftoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
A brief look at each: — Shane Kimbrough, 53, the flight's commander, is a retired Army colonel who led a helicopter platoon during the 1991 Gulf War.
His love of space came early: His grandparents lived near Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. The son of an Army aviator who flew in Vietnam, Kimbrough grew up in Atlanta.