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Timothy Kopra

1963 - Today

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Timothy Lennart "Tim" Kopra (born April 9, 1963) is an American engineer, a Colonel in the United States Army, and a retired NASA astronaut. He served aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer for Expedition 20, returning to Earth aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-128 mission on September 11, 2009. He returned to the ISS for the second time in December 2015, as part of Expedition 46 and as the commander of 47. In 2020, he was announced as the vice president of robotics and space operations at MDA Corporation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Timothy Kopra is the 319th most popular astronaut (down from 253rd in 2019), the 11,638th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,770th in 2019) and the 153rd most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Timothy Kopra ranks 319 out of 556. Before him are John M. Fabian, Thomas Akers, Satoshi Furukawa, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, and James van Hoften. After him are Serena Auñón-Chancellor, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, Aleksandr Poleshchuk, Lisa Nowak, Yuri Shargin, and Umberto Guidoni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Timothy Kopra ranks 508. Before him are Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, Peter Stamm, Boris Nadezhdin, Criss Oliva, Marcus Nispel, and Kevin Chamberlin. After him are Urjit Patel, Malcolm Gladwell, Lisa Nowak, Igor Paklin, Joanna Going, and Mari Iijima.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Timothy Kopra ranks 11,640 out of 20,380. Before him are Tommy Roe (1942), Marilyn Maxwell (1921), Remy LaCroix (1988), Robert Lowery (1913), Albert Maltz (1908), and Frank Kameny (1925). After him are Clayton Stanley (1978), Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859), Madison Keys (1995), Tianna Bartoletta (1985), Richard Wilbur (1921), and Debi Mazar (1964).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Timothy Kopra ranks 153. Before him are Richard O. Covey (1946), John M. Fabian (1939), Thomas Akers (1951), Jeffrey A. Hoffman (1944), Tracy Caldwell Dyson (1969), and James van Hoften (1944). After him are Serena Auñón-Chancellor (1976), Lisa Nowak (1963), Lee Archambault (1960), Ronald J. Grabe (1945), Loren Shriver (1944), and Anthony W. England (1942).

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