Robert S. Kimbrough

Infobox Astronaut
name =Shane Kimbrough

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type =NASA Astronaut
status =Active
nationality =American
date_birth =birth date and age|1967|06|4
place_birth =Killeen, Texas
occupation =
rank =Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army
selection =2004 NASA Group 19
time =
mission =
insignia =|

Robert Shane Kimbrough (born June 4, 1967 in Killeen, Texas) is a U.S. Army officer and a NASA astronaut. He was part of the first group of candidates selected for NASA astronaut training following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

Biography

Kimbrough attended The Lovett School in Atlanta, Georgia. Kimbrough graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1989 with a B.A. in aerospace engineering and served as an Apache helicopter pilot in the first Gulf War, Desert Storm in 1991. Kimbrough later attended and graduated from Georgia Tech with a master’s degree in Operations Research in 1998. He helped NASA train astronauts on landing procedures for several years before he himself was selected for training.

As of January 1, 2006, he holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army.

NASA career

Kimbrough is assigned as a Mission Specialist on STS-126.

External links

* [http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/kimbrough-rs.html NASA biography]
* [http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/kimbrough_robert.htm Spacefacts biography of R. Shane Kimbrough]
* [http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=256 Georgia Tech story]