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Timothy Kopra was born on 9 April, 1963 in Austin, Texas, U.S., is an Engineer, colonel in the United States Army, and astronaut. Discover Timothy Kopra's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

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Occupation Army aviator
Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 9 April 1963
Birthday 9 April
Birthplace Austin, Texas, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1700

His German ancestors arrived in New York in the colonial period in the 1700s.

1710

These ancestors include Johann Philipp and Anna Catharina Finckel, who were members of the first group of Palatine Germans who settled in Germantown in the Hudson Valley in 1710.

1914

His grandfather, Antti Kopra, born in Laavola, Valkjärvi, Karelia, and his grandmother, Ester Elisabet Saksinen, born in Helsinki, left Finland in 1914, immigrating to the United States.

Kopra's father spoke Finnish, but Tim does not speak the language.

On his mother's side, Kopra is of German descent.

1963

Timothy Lennart "Tim" Kopra (born April 9, 1963) is an engineer, a Colonel in the United States Army and a retired NASA astronaut.

1985

Kopra received his commission as a second lieutenant from the U.S. Military Academy in May 1985 and was designated as an Army aviator in August 1986.

1990

In 1990, he was assigned to the 3rd Armored Division in Hanau, Germany, and was deployed to the Middle East in support of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

He completed his tour in Germany as an attack helicopter company commander and an operations officer.

1998

His father, Dr. Lennart L. Kopra, died December 8, 1998.

He is of Finnish descent on his father's side.

Kopra was assigned to NASA at the Johnson Space Center in September 1998 as a vehicle integration test engineer.

In this position, he primarily served as an engineering liaison for Space Shuttle launch operations and International Space Station hardware testing.

He was actively involved in the contractor tests of the Extravehicular Activity (EVA) interfaces for each of the space station truss segments.

2000

Selected as a mission specialist by NASA in July 2000, Kopra reported for Astronaut Candidate Training the following month.

He then completed the initial two years of intensive Space Shuttle and ISS training, scientific and technical briefings, and T-38 flight training.

Kopra was also assigned technical duties in the Space Station Branch of the Astronaut Office, where his primary focus was the testing of crew interfaces for two future ISS modules as well as the implementation of support computers and operational Local Area Network on International Space Station.

2006

In September 2006, Kopra served as an aquanaut during the NEEMO 11 mission aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory, living and working underwater for seven days.

Kopra spent a little less than 60 days as a flight engineer of Expedition 20 on the ISS, arriving aboard the station aboard space shuttle Endeavour on the STS-127 mission and returning to Earth aboard space shuttle Discovery on the STS-128 mission.

He participated in the first spacewalk of the STS-127 mission.

Kopra was assigned to fly on STS-133, the final flight of the Discovery.

He lost that assignment when he was injured in a bicycle accident, possibly breaking his hip.

He was replaced by Stephen G. Bowen.

Kopra served as commander of the ISS, with Soyuz TMA-19M, as part of Expedition 46 / Expedition 47.

2009

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.

2010

He then completed a three-year assignment at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where he served as an aeroscout platoon leader, troop executive officer, and squadron adjutant in the 101st Airborne Division's air cavalry squadron.

Kopra retired from the U.S. Army in November 2010.

2015

He returned to the ISS for the second time in December 2015, as part of Expedition 46 and as the commander of 47.

2016

During a spacewalk on January 15, 2016, Kopra's spacesuit began to leak water into his helmet causing the walk to be cut short.

The suit he was using is the same suit that had developed a more serious water leak during a spacewalk by Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano.

Kopra returned to Earth on Soyuz TMA-19M, and landed 18 June 2016 09:15 UTC, after spending 186 days in space.

2020

In 2020, he was announced as the vice president of robotics and space operations at MDA Corporation.

Kopra was born in Austin, Texas.

Kopra is married to Dawn Kaye Lehman of Lewisburg, Kentucky, and they have two children, Matthew and Jacqueline.

His mother, Martha A. Witthoft Kopra, resides in Austin, Texas.