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 Commander:
Kent V. Rominger
Kent V. Rominger (Capt., USN), 44, Endeavour's commander, is making his fifth flight into space, his second flight as commander and his second flight to the International Space Station. He will dock Endeavour to the ISS on the third space shuttle mission of the year. He is responsible for the overall safety and success of STS-100. While Endeavour is docked to the space station, Rominger will play an active part in the transfer of cargo from Endeavour and the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Raffaello to the ISS. Initially selected as an astronaut in 1992, Rominger first worked on technical issues for the Astronaut Office Operations Development Branch. Previous Space Flights:
Ascent Seating: Flight Deck - Port Forward |
 Pilot:
Jeffrey S. Ashby
Jeff Ashby (Capt., USN), 46, is making his second flight into space. He is a former Navy fighter pilot and test pilot with more than 6,000 flight hours and 1,000 carrier landings. He will be responsible for key shuttle systems during launch and landing, will work on any in-flight maintenance that may be required and will fly Endeavour during undocking, ISS flyaround and separation from the space station. He also will operate the shuttle robotic arm during the space walks, helping to install the Canadarm2 on the U.S. laboratory Destiny and maneuvering space walkers attached to the shuttle arm's foot platform. Previous Space Flights:
Ascent Seating: Flight Deck - Starboard Forward |
 Mission Specialist 1:
Chris A. Hadfield
Chris Hadfield (Col., CAF), 41, is a Canadian Space Agency astronaut with one space flight to his credit. A former fighter pilot and test pilot, he was selected as one of four Canadian astronauts in 1992 from 5,330 applicants. Hadfield, designated EV1 and wearing the spacesuit with red stripes, will perform at least two space walks, becoming the first Canadian to conduct a space walk. He will help install the Canadian robotic arm on the space station and perform other tasks, including installation of a UHF antenna and attachment of a spare for a piece of electronics equipment to the outside of the ISS. He will also operate the shuttle robotic arm during the handoff of the Pallet from the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) to the shuttle robotic arm. In addition, he will work in the Destiny lab with the International Space Station crew during all SSRMS ops as the STS-100 crew SSRMS expert. He also will be in charge of the orbiter docking system. Previous Space Flights:
Ascent Seating: Flight Deck - Starboard Aft |
 Mission Specialist 2:
John L. Phillips
John Phillips, Ph.D., 50, will serve as Endeavour's flight engineer during launch and landing. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and is a Naval aviator with more than 4,000 flight hours and 250 carrier landings. After leaving the Navy in 1982, he completed his doctorate in geophysics and space physics at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1987. He worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory before being selected as an astronaut in 1996. He is the author of more than 150 scientific papers on the plasma environments of the sun, Earth, other planets, comets and spacecraft. Once on orbit, he will serve as the coordinator for the two space walks and will control the Common Berthing Mechanism, which mates the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module to Unity. He will also operate the IMAX cameras and assist with a range of other Endeavour operations. Previous Space Flights:
Ascent Seating: Flight Deck - Center Aft |
 Mission Specialist 3:
Scott E. Parazynski
Scott Parazynski, M.D., 39, is a graduate of Stanford Medical School, a commercial-rated pilot with more than 1,500 flight hours and one of the nation's top 10 competitors in the luge in the 1988 Olympic trials. He served his medical internship at the Brigham and Women's Hospital of Harvard Medical School. He had completed 22 months of a residency program in emergency medicine in Denver, Colo., when he was selected as an astronaut in 1992. Previous Space Flights:
Ascent Seating: Mid Deck - Port |
 Mission Specialist 4:
Umberto Guidoni
Umberto Guidoni, Ph.D., 46, is a European Space Agency astronaut. He earned a doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Rome in 1978. He was selected to be trained as a payload specialist by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) for the second Tethered Satellite System shuttle mission, STS-75, in 1996. He was selected by ASI to attend NASA astronaut candidate training and reported to Johnson Space Center in 1996 and subsequently qualified as a mission specialist. He joined the astronaut corps of the European Space Agency in 1998. He will be responsible for Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) activation and deactivation, as well as cargo transfer between the MPLM and the station. He will operate the Space Vision System and supervise payload bay door closing. He will serve as backup for shuttle robotic arm operations, as well as conduct photo documentation and Earth observations. Previous Space Flights:
Ascent Seating: Mid Deck - Center |
 Mission Specialist 5:
Yuri V. Lonchakov
Yuri Valentinovich Lonchakov (Lt. Col., Russian Air Force), 36, will serve with Phillips as space walk choreographer during the second space walk. He graduated with honors from the Oresburg Air Force Pilot School in 1986 as a pilot engineer. He graduated with honors from the Zhukovski Air Force Academy as a pilot-engineer-researcher in 1998. He later served as an Air Force Brigade commander. He has logged more than 1,400 hours in aircraft including the L-29, Tu-134 and Tu-16. He was selected as a test-cosmonaut candidate of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in 1997. On STS-100 he will assist with cargo transfer and powered payloads and conduct photo and video documentation as well as Earth observations. Previous Space Flights:
Ascent Seating: Mid Deck - Starboard |
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