Scott Joseph Kelly

US AF Colonel,
NASA Astronaut,
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, USA

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH:

February 21, 1964 in Orange, New Jersey, USA but considers West Orange, New Jersey to be his home town.

EDUCATION:

In 1987 he received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the State University of New York Maritime College.

In 1996 received a Master of Science degree in aviation systems from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

FAMILY STATUS:

Married to Leslie S. Yandell. They have two children.

AWARDS:

Navy Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal, Defense of Kuwait Medal, National Defense Service Medal and Sea Service Deployment Ribbon.

HOBBY:

Running, sport games.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

In May 1987 Kelly began service in the US Navy. In July 1989 upon completion of the flight training at Naval Air Station (NAS) Beeville, Texas, he became a naval aviator.

In 1989 he reported to Fighter Squadron 101 at NAS Oceana, Virginia Beach, Virginia, for initial F-14 Tomcat training.

Upon completion of this training he was assigned to Fighter Squadron 143 based aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. He took part in overseas deployments to the North Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea and Persian Gulf.

From January 1993 to June 1994 he attended the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School.

Since 1994 he worked as a test pilot at the Strike Aircraft Test Squadron, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Maryland. He flied the F-14A/B/D, F/A – 18A/B/C/D and KC-130F. Kelly was the first pilot to fly an F-14 with an experimental digital flight control system installed and performed a maneuver with a high angle of attack.

He has logged over 4,000 flight hours in more than 30 different aircraft and has over 250 carrier landings.

On May 1, 1996 he was selected as the NASA astronaut candidate. He passed a two-year course of general space training. Upon completion of this training, he was qualified as the shuttle pilot and assigned to the Astronaut Office Spacecraft Systems/Operations Branch. In 2002 he was transferred to the EVA Branch.

He performed his first space flight on December 19-27, 1999 as the Discovery Shuttle pilot under STS-103 program. The main task was the Hubble Space Telescope repair. The mission duration was 7 days, 23 hours, 10 minutes and 47 seconds.

In 2000 he worked as NASA representative to perform operations onboard the ISS, namely Director of Operations in Russia.

In March 2001 he was assigned as a flight engineer in the backup crew for Expedition-5 to the ISS (ISS-5). He passed training at Yu.A. Gagarin CTC as the Soyuz -TM TSC flight engineer.

On December 12, 2002 Kelly was assigned as the Shuttle Crew Commander under STS-118 program. This flight to the ISS was planned to be performed in November 2003. However, after the Columbia Orbiter accident all flights were halted and many crews were reformed.

He performed his second space flight on August 8-21, 2007 as the Endeavour Shuttle Commander under STS-118 program. The main flight task was to deliver and install S5 truss segment to the International Space Station. The mission duration was 12 days, 17 hours, 55 minutes and 40 seconds.
In July 2008 it was reported that he was assigned to the backup crew for Expedition 23 to the ISS (ISS-23). Concurrently with this statement it was reported that he was assigned to the prime crew for Expedition 25 to the ISS (ISS-25). His assignment was confirmed in the ISS flight plan published by Roscosmos press-service. On November 21, 2008 his assignment was officially confirmed by NASA (press-release № 08-306) when the ISS-20 – ISS-26 crew members were declared.

On April 1, 2009 by the Interdepartmental Committee he was approved as a flight engineer of the backup crew for the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft and the ISS prime crews for Expeditions 23/24.

On April 2, 2010 during the launch of the Soyuz TMA-18 TSC he was a backup of the spacecraft flight engineer.

On September 17, 2010 by the Interdepartmental Commission Scott Kelly was approved as a flight engineer of the prime crew of the Soyuz TMA vehicle. On September 21, 2010 his assignment was confirmed at the meeting of the Federal Space Agency Board.

He performed his third space flight at a period of October 7, 2010 to March 16, 2011 as the ISS flight engineer under the program for the prime crew of Expedition 25 and commander of Expedition 26.

The mission duration was 159 days 8 hours 43 minutes.

On November 26, 2012 he was approved as a member of the prime crew of the Soyuz TMA-16M vehicle under the program for an annual flight (ISS-43/44 Expedition) together with Mikhail Kornienko.

On January 31, 2014 Scott Kelly within the crew of ISS-43/44 together with Gennadiy Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko took part in trainings to take measures in case of the emergency landing in the forest and marshy area in winter.

On September 3, 2014 Scott Kelly began to pass comprehensive training as a flight engineer of the ISS-41/42 backup crew together with commander Gennady Padalka and flight engineer Mikhail Kornienko. This day the examination training on MTV Soyuz TMA occurred, for with the crew received an excellent mark. On September 4 he passed the test training on the ISS Russian Segment.

On September 24, 2014 at Baikonur at a meeting of the State Commission for conducting flight tests of manned space complexes Scott Kelly was approved as flight engineer-2 of MTV Soyuz TMA-14M backup crew. During the launch of MTV Soyuz TMA-14M on September 26, 2014 he was flight engineer-2 backup of the vehicle crew.