{"id":73480,"date":"2019-01-23T18:38:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T02:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=73480"},"modified":"2019-01-23T18:38:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T02:38:19","slug":"nasa-adds-e-michael-mike-fincke-to-crew-assignment-for-manned-boeing-flight-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=73480","title":{"rendered":"NASA Adds E. Michael \u201cMike\u201d Fincke to Crew Assignment for Manned Boeing Flight Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Canaveral, FL&#8230;NASA astronaut\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/edward-michael-fincke\">E. Michael \u201cMike\u201d Fincke<\/a>\u00a0has been added to the crew of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner\u2019s Crew Flight Test, scheduled to launch later this year.\u00a0 Fincke takes the place of astronaut Eric Boe, originally assigned to the mission in August 2018. Boe is unable to fly due to medical reasons; he will replace Fincke as the assistant to the chief for commercial crew in the astronaut office at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jsc2011e050736.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jsc2011e050736.jpg 320w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jsc2011e050736-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This will be Fincke\u2019s fourth trip to space since joining the astronaut corps in 1996. He previously served as an International Space Station flight engineer and science officer on Expedition 9, and commanded the station on Expedition 18. He returned as a mission specialist for the STS-134 crew on space shuttle Endeavour\u2019s final mission. So far, the Pennsylvania native has spent 382 days in space and performed nine spacewalks.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Fincke, who is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has served as assistant to the chief for commercial crew in the astronaut office since 2013. In that role, he has worked closely with both Boeing and SpaceX, and with the astronauts assigned to their vehicles on the development and testing of the new spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>Fincke will begin training immediately alongside NASA\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/nicole-a-mann\">Nicole Mann<\/a>\u00a0and Boeing\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boeing.com\/resources\/boeingdotcom\/space\/crew_space_transportation-100_vehicle\/docs\/Ferguson-StarlinerTestPilot-Bio.pdf\">Chris Ferguson<\/a>, who were both\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/nasa-assigns-first-crews-to-fly-commercial-spacecraft\">assigned to the mission in August 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Starliner\u2019s Crew Flight Test will be the first time that the new spacecraft, which is being developed and built by Boeing as part of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/exploration\/commercial\/crew\/index.html\">NASA\u2019s Commercial Crew Program<\/a>, is launched into space with humans on board. An uncrewed flight test of the Starliner will test the spacecraft\u2019s critical systems prior to Fincke, Ferguson and Mann\u2019s launch.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Fincke on Twitter at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/astroironmike\">@astroironmike<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Canaveral, FL&#8230;NASA astronaut\u00a0E. Michael \u201cMike\u201d Fincke\u00a0has been added to the crew of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner\u2019s Crew Flight Test, scheduled to launch later this year.\u00a0 Fincke takes the place of astronaut Eric Boe, originally assigned to the mission in August 2018. Boe is unable to fly due to medical reasons; he will replace Fincke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jsc2011e050736.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}