Meet the Astronauts Aboard the Broken Space Station

By Russell Goldman
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Six astronauts, from three countries, are conserving energy aboard the International Space Station following the failure of one of two cooling systems. The astronauts may have to perform a spacewalk to repair the broken system.

Oleg Kotov, Commander
Nationality: Russia
Age: 48
Spaceflight Experience: Kotov spent 196 days aboard the International Space State during his first spaceflights in 2007. He has performed two spacewalks, or extra-vehicle activities, lasting a total of 11 hours and 47 minutes.

Rick Masstrachio, Flight Engineer
Nationality: USA
Age: 53
Spaceflight Experience: This is Masstrachio’s fourth mission to space. He previously conducted missions to the ISS in 2000, 2006 and 2010.

Koichi Wakata, Flight Engineer
Nationality: Japan
Age: 50
Spaceflight Experience: Wakata has completed three missions to space logging a total 159 days, 10 hours, and 46 minutes in space.

Mikhail Tyurin, Flight Engineer
Nationality: Russia
Age: 53
Spaceflight Experience: Tyurin has been to the ISS twice, in 2001 and 2006 for a total of 340 days in space. In that time he conducted five spacewalks.

Sergey Ryazanskiy, Flight Engineer
Nationality: Russia
Age: 39
Spaceflight Experience: This is Ryazanskiy’s first mission to space.

Mike Hopkins, Flight Engineer
Nationality: USA
Age: 44
Spaceflight Experience: This is Hopkin’s first mission to space.

Source: NASA