STS-92 Crew Members

Crew Members

Commander:    Brian Duffy
Brian Duffy (Col., USAF), 47, is Discovery’s Commander for the STS-92 mission. This is Duffy’s fourth flight into space, having served as the Pilot on the STS-45 and STS-57 missions and Commander of the STS-72 mission. Duffy is responsible for the overall success and safety of the flight and will be in charge of Discovery’s rendezvous and docking to the International Space Station. Before being assigned to this flight, Duffy served as the Acting Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center.

Previous Space Flights:
STS-45 and STS-57: Pilot STS-72 mission: Commander

Ascent Seating:   Flight Deck - Port Forward
Entry Seating:     Flight Deck - Port Forward

Pilot:    Pamela A. Melroy
Pam Melroy (Lt. Col., USAF), 39, is Discovery’s Pilot for the STS-92 mission. Flying on her first mission, Melroy becomes the third female Pilot in Shuttle program history.

Melroy will assist Commander Brian Duffy in the rendezvous and docking to the International Space Station and will undock Discovery from the ISS at the end of docked operations before conducting a flyaround of the complex. Melroy will prepare the berthing port mechanisms for the mating of the Z1 truss to the U.S. Unity connecting node, then will join crewmate Jeff Wisoff in the newly Z1 truss structure to outfit the truss with grounding straps and other logistical hardware.

She will also operate a 3D IMAX movie camera during the mission to collect footage for a movie being produced about the assembly of the new Station.

Previous Space Flights:
STS-92 is Melroy's first flight.

Ascent Seating:   Flight Deck - Starboard Forward
Entry Seating:     Flight Deck - Starboard Forward

Mission Specialist 1:    Leroy Chiao
Dr. Leroy Chiao, 40, serves as Mission Specialist 1 (MS 1) on his third flight into space on STS-92.

Chiao is primarily responsible for Z1 truss systems and will serve as Extravehicular crew member 1 (EV 1) during the first and third space walks of the flight. He will wear the space suit bering the solid red stripes. Chiao and Bill McArthur will hook up umbilicals between the newly installed Z1 truss and other International Space Station components and will help to hook up electrical connections between the third Pressurized Mating Adapter and the Unity connecting node.

During the second and fourth space walks by Jeff Wisoff and Mike Lopez-Alegria, Chiao will serve as the intravehicular crew member (IV), responsible for the proper choreography of the space walk.

Previous Space Flights:
Chiao previously flew on the STS-65 and the STS-72 missions.

Ascent Seating:   Mid Deck - Starboard
Entry Seating:     Mid Deck - Starboard
EV1

Mission Specialist 2:    William "Bill" S. McArthur
Bill McArthur (Col., USA), 49, is making his third flight into space on STS-92, having previously flown on STS-58 and STS-74, which was the second docking mission to the Russian Mir Space Station.

McArthur will serve as flight engineer during Discovery’s launch and landing and is designated Mission Specialist 2 (MS 2). He will also be designated as Extravehicular crew member 2 (EV 2) during the flight, and will be teamed with Leroy Chiao during the first and third space walks of the flight to hook up umbilicals between the newly installed Z1 truss and other International Space Station components and electrical connections between the Station’s third Pressurized Mating Adapter and Unity. McArthur will wear the white space suit bearing no stripes.

McArthur will also serve as the backup robot arm operator during the second and fourth spacewalks, joining Koichi Wakata on the flight deck to maneuver other spacewalkers around the International Space Station.

Previous Space Flights:
STS-58 and STS-74.

Ascent Seating:   Flight Deck - Center Aft
Entry Seating:     Flight Deck - Center Aft
EV2

Mission Specialist 3:    Peter "Jeff" J.K. Wisoff
Dr. Jeff Wisoff, 42, is making his fourth flight into space on STS-92, having flown previously on STS-57, STS-68 and STS-81 to the Russian Mir Space Station.

Wisoff will serve as Mission Specialist 3 (MS 3) during the flight, and will be designated as Extravehicular crew member 3 (EV 3), conducting the second and fourth space walks of the mission along with Mike Lopez-Alegria. Wisoff will wear the space suit bearing the vertical red stripes. Wisoff and Lopez-Alegria will help to install and hookup the third Pressurized Mating Adapter (PMA 3) to the Unity connecting node and will conduct a test of jetpacks worn by spacewalkers as they assemble International Space Station hardware.

Wisoff will also serve as the intravehicular crew member (IV) during the first and third space walks of the flight, responsible for the proper choreography of those excursions by Leroy Chiao and Bill McArthur.

Previous Space Flights:
STS-57, STS-68 and STS-81.

Ascent Seating:   Mid Deck - Port
Entry Seating:     Mid Deck - Port
EV3

Mission Specialist 4:    Michael E. Lopez-Alegria
Mike Lopez-Alegria (Cmdr., USN), 42, is making his second flight into space on STS-92, having first flown on STS-73.

Lopez-Alegria most recently served as the Director of Operations for NASA at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, supervising astronaut training for flights to the International Space Station. On STS-92, Lopez-Alegria will serve as Mission Specialist 4 (MS 4), and Extravehicular crew member 4 (EV 4). He will wear the space suit bearing the diagonal red stripes.

Lopez-Alegria will be paired with Jeff Wisoff for the second and fourth space walks of the flight, to install and hookup the third Pressurized Mating Adapter (PMA 3) to the Unity connecting node and to conduct a test of jetpacks worn by spacewalkers as they assemble International Space Station hardware.

Lopez-Alegria will also be the backup robot arm operator for the first and third space walks of the flight, joining Koichi Wakata on the flight deck to maneuver other spacewalkers around the International Space Station.

He will also serve as the "loadmaster" for this mission, responsible for the transfer of logistical supplies from Discovery to the ISS.

Previous Space Flights:
STS-73.

Ascent Seating:   Mid Deck - Center
Entry Seating:     Flight Deck - Starboard Aft
EV4

Mission Specialist 5:    Koichi Wakata
Koichi Wakata, 37, represents the Japanese Space Agency (NASDA) on STS-92, his second flight into space. Wakata previously flew on STS-72, using the Shuttle’s robot arm to retrieve a Japanese science satellite which had been launched on a Japanese H-II rocket.

Wakata is designated as Mission Specialist 5 (MS 5) during Discovery’s flight, responsible for all robot arm operations. Wakata will grapple the Z1 truss structure and mate it to the U.S. Unity connecting node and will use the arm to install the third Pressurized Mating Adapter (PMA 3) to Unity as an additional docking port for International Space Station hardware.

Wakata will spend four days using the arm to transport four spacewalkers around the ISS as they connect umbilicals and electrical cables between the Z1 truss, the new mating adapter and the ISS modules.

Previous Space Flights:
STS-72.

Ascent Seating:   Flight Deck - Starboard Aft
Entry Seating:     Mid Deck - Center
RMS

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