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Personal: Male, married. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. US Air Force US Air Force Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: NASA Group 16 - 1996. Active Entered space service: 1 May 1996. Number of Flights: 1.00. Total Time: 187.89 days. Number of EVAs: 2.00. Total EVA Time: 0.25 days.
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Fincke Spaceflight Log
Fincke Chronology 5 December 1983 - NASA Astronaut Training Group 16 selected.. The group was selected to provide pilot, engineer, and scientist astronauts for space shuttle flights.. Qualifications: Pilots: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics. Advanced degree desirable. At least 1,000 flight-hours of pilot-in-command time. Flight test experience desirable. Excellent health. Vision minimum 20/50 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20 vision; maximum sitting blood pressure 140/90. Height between 163 and 193 cm. Mission Specialists: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics and minimum three years of related experience or an advanced degree. Vision minimum 20/150 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20. Maximum sitting blood pressure of 140/90. Height between 150 and 193 cm.. 10 pilots and 25 mission specialists selected from over 2,400 applicants. 9 additional international astronauts. 13 December 1998 - STS-88 Mission Status Report # 22. Flight: STS-88. For the first time ever, the new International Space Station Flight Control Room in Houston issued a wake-up call to orbiting astronauts. At 10:36 a.m. CST, space station communicator Astronaut Mike Fincke awoke Endeavour's crew with the song" Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight" as they prepare to say "goodnight" to the space station. Having begun its on-orbit assembly, Endeavour's astronauts are now preparing for ...more... 15 January 2004 - STS-119 (cancelled). Assignment: Proposed Prime Crew. Flight: STS-119A. Flight delayed after the Columbia disaster. STS-119 was to have flown ISS Assembly mission ISS-15A and have carried out a crew rotation. 2 April 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-17. Flight: ISS EO-8. Plans for the next crew rotation on the International Space Station are on schedule this week, as the Expedition 8 crew members moved into their final month on orbit and their successors to within weeks of their scheduled launch. On Thursday, Station managers conducted a Stage Operations Readiness Review and ...more... 9 April 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-18. Flight: ISS EO-8. Three weeks remain in the six-month voyage aboard the International Space Station for Commander Mike Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri as the Expedition 8 crew prepares to return home later this month. Their week aboard the station focused on wrapping up science experiments and tidying up for their replacement crew, which is in Russia for launch preparations. On Thursday, Station managers conducted a Flight Readiness Review and found no issues ...more... 16 April 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-19. Flight: ISS EO-8. Work to prepare for the eighth International Space Station crew exchange continued on schedule this week, both on the Station and at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka, Flight Engineer Mike Fincke, and European ...more... 18 April 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-20. Flight: ISS EO-8. A new crew is en route to the International Space Station following the launch tonight of the ISS Soyuz 8 spacecraft carrying Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka, NASA Science Officer and Flight Engineer Mike Fincke and visiting researcher European Space Agency Astronaut Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands. The Soyuz launched flawlessly at 10:19 p.m. CDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakstan, ...more... 18 April 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-21. Flight: ISS EO-8. New residents arrived at the International Space Station at 12:01 a.m. CDT (0501 GMT, 9:01 a.m. Moscow time) Wednesday. Docking of the Expedition 9 Crew's Soyuz spacecraft (ISS Soyuz 8 / TMA-4) initiated a nine-day handover and science operation by a visiting European Space Agency researcher. With Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka at the controls, the Soyuz vehicle linked ...more... 19 April 2004 - Soyuz TMA-4. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: ISS EO-8, ISS EO-9, ISS Delta. Soyuz TMA-4 was ISS transport mission ISS 8S and delivered the EO-9 caretaker crew of Gennadiy Padalka and Michael Fincke, together with the ESA/Netherlands Delta mission crewmember Andre Kuipers, to the Space Station. Soyuz TMA-4 docked with the nadir port on Zarya at 05:01 GMT on April 21 and the hatches to the ISS were opened at 06:30 GMT. Another gyro on the station had shut down prior to the docking and possibly would require a maintenance spacewalk to replace its failed electronics. After Soyuz TMA-5 docked with the ISS on October 16, the EO-9 crew handed activities over to the EO-10 crew. 23 April 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-22. Flight: ISS Delta, ISS EO-8. New crewmembers aboard the International Space Station settled into a routine of handover briefings and scientific experiments after their arrival early Wednesday. Expedition 9's Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA ISS Science Officer Mike Fincke ...more... 29 April 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-23. Flight: ISS Delta, ISS EO-8. Completing more than six months in space, the International Space Station Expedition 8 crew, Commander Mike Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri, returned to Earth today, bringing with them European Space Agency Astronaut Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands, who had spent nine days aboard the complex conducting research. After a flawless descent aboard the ISS Soyuz 7 spacecraft, Foale, Kaleri and Kuipers ...more... 7 May 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-24. Flight: ISS EO-9. The new crew of the International Space Station spent its first full week alone concentrating on life science research, spacewalk preparations, and becoming comfortable with their new home in orbit. Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA ISS Science Officer Mike Fincke ...more... 14 May 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-25. Flight: ISS EO-9. International Space Station Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA Science Officer and Flight Engineer Mike Fincke eased into a regular schedule of operations in orbit this week, preparing spacesuits for checkouts next week and loading trash aboard a Progress vehicle that will soon depart. Early in the week, Fincke conducted the second in a series of battery recharging ...more... 21 May 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-26. Flight: ISS EO-9. Aboard the International Space Station, the Expedition 9 crew closed out its first month in space with a busy week of spacewalk preparations, including a spacesuit dress rehearsal. During the check of U.S. spacesuits, they discovered a problem with the cooling ...more... 25 May 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-27. Flight: ISS EO-9. An unmanned Russian Progress resupply ship blasted off today from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to deliver 21/2 tons of food, water, fuel and supplies to the residents of the International Space Station. As the Station flew over the heart of Africa, the ISS Progress 14 craft lifted off ...more... 27 May 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-28. Flight: ISS EO-9. An unmanned Russian resupply ship smoothly linked up to the International Space Station this morning, delivering two and a half tons of food, water, fuel, spare parts and supplies to the two residents on board. With Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA Science Officer and Flight ...more... 4 June 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-29. Flight: ISS EO-9. The Expedition 9 crew aboard the International Space Station spent the week unpacking a Russian resupply ship and getting ready for a June spacewalk to replace a faulty circuit breaker. Gennady Padalka, the Station commander, and Mike Fincke, the NASA science officer ...more... 10 June 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-30. Flight: ISS EO-9. The Expedition 9 crew, Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA ISS Science Officer Mike Fincke, spent their seventh week aboard the Station continuing to prepare for their first spacewalk, now under consideration to be conducted June 24. Managers decided today to reschedule the planning date for the spacewalk from June ...more... 18 June 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-31. Flight: ISS EO-9. Father's Day came early for Astronaut Mike Fincke, 225 miles in space aboard the International Space Station, as he received the best present on Earth -- baby daughter Tarali Paulina Fincke, born Friday. Although Fincke is among thousands of American fathers whose service to the country ...more... 24 June 2004 - EVA ISS EO-9-1. Assignment: EVA Crew. Flight: ISS EO-9. The astronauts exited the station at 21:56 GMT on what was to be a six hour spacewalk to replace a failed gyroscope electronics module. The EVA had already been delayed from 10, then 16 June. The original plan was to use American suits, but a coolant leak in one of those forced the crew to use Russian suits. This in turn meant they would have to exist from the airlock in the station's Russian Pirs module, which in turn extended the distance they would have to travel outside the station to 30 m. Eight minutes after exiting the hatch, a serious leak was detected by Russian ground controllers in Fincke's suit. The crew was called back in and it was planned that the EVA would be repeated six days later. 24 June 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-32. Flight: ISS EO-9. A spacewalk intended to replace a faulty circuit breaker on the exterior of the International Space Station was cut short when the primary oxygen bottle on Astronaut Mike Fincke's Russian space suit began losing pressure faster than expected. The overall pressure in Fincke's suit remained stable at all times and he was not ...more... 25 June 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-33. Flight: ISS EO-9. Specialists in Moscow today continued to analyze the cause of an unexpectedly high rate of pressure loss in the primary oxygen bottle on Astronaut Mike Fincke's Russian space suit, which terminated Thursday's spacewalk after 14 minutes. Planners have retargeted the Extravehicular Activity (EVA) for no earlier than Tuesday, ...more... 25 June 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-34. Flight: ISS EO-9. Specialists in Moscow today continued to analyze the cause of an unexpectedly high rate of pressure loss in the primary oxygen bottle on Astronaut Mike Fincke's Russian space suit, which terminated Thursday's spacewalk after 14 minutes. Planners have retargeted the Extravehicular Activity (EVA) for no earlier than Tuesday, ...more... 29 June 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-35. Flight: ISS EO-9. Mission managers today gave a green light to proceed on Wednesday with a second spacewalk to attempt to repair a circuit breaker on the International Space Station. The repair is planned to restore power to one of four gyroscopes that help orient the complex. The Expedition 9 crew's first spacewalk was cut short Thursday when flight controllers ...more... 30 June 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-36. Flight: ISS EO-9. The second time was the charm for two International Space Station spacewalkers tonight as they moved with ease to restore power to a key control system, completed a series of bonus jobs to get ahead on future work, and finished up ahead of schedule. The spacewalk went smoothly from the moment NASA ISS Science Officer Mike Fincke ...more... 1 July 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-37. Flight: ISS EO-9. Flight controllers today fully revved up a gyroscope on the International Space Station that spacewalkers brought back to life Wednesday. They plan to return it to the set of gyroscopes controlling the Station's orientation Friday morning. After a normal, slow ramping up of speed over several hours, the newly restored ...more... 2 July 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-38. Flight: ISS EO-9. A newly reactivated gyroscope on the International Space Station today was successfully brought on line for attitude control at 6:20 a.m. CDT. The Control Moment Gyroscope 2 was fully operational at 6,600 revolutions per minute Thursday afternoon after being powered back on as a result of this week's spacewalk. Testing overnight proved its operation adequate for orientation control. Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer and NASA ISS Science ...more... 9 July 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-39. Flight: ISS EO-9. Aboard the International Space Station, work focused on science, spacesuit troubleshooting and routine maintenance as the Expedition 9 crew sailed through its 12th week in space. Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA ISS Science Officer Mike Fincke turned their ...more... 16 July 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-40. Flight: ISS EO-9. Aboard the International Space Station, the Expedition 9 crew concentrated on a host of scientific experiments and routine systems maintenance work in its 13th week in orbit. Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA ISS Science Officer Mike Fincke conducted numerous ...more... 23 July 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-41. Flight: ISS EO-9. The International Space Station's Expedition 9 crewmembers passed the halfway point of their six-month mission this week as they prepared for a third spacewalk and joined the world in observing the 35th anniversary of the first landing of humans on the moon. July 19 was the midpoint of the flight for ISS Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight ...more... 30 July 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-42. Flight: ISS EO-9. Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Mike Fincke this week marked their 100th day in orbit, oversaw the undocking of a resupply craft and prepared for their third spacewalk. The ISS Progress 14 automated resupply craft undocked at 1:05 a.m. CDT today. Fincke ...more... 3 August 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-43. Flight: ISS EO-9. Two International Space Station spacewalkers began rolling out the welcome mat for a new cargo vehicle this morning. Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA ISS Science Officer Mike Fincke spent 4½ hours outside the Station swapping out experiments and installing hardware associated with Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), scheduled to launch on its maiden voyage to ISS next year. The ATV is an unpiloted cargo carrier like the Russian Progress supply vehicles, ...more... 6 August 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-44. Flight: ISS EO-9. Aboard the International Space Station this week, Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA ISS Science Officer Mike Fincke resumed scientific investigations, routine maintenance, and preparations for the arrival of a new cargo ship - all following a spacewalk on Tuesday. During the 4 ½ hour Extravehicular Activity (EVA) - or spacewalk - Padalka and Fincke ...more... 11 August 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-45. Flight: ISS EO-9. An unpiloted Russian cargo ship blasted off this morning from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a three-day journey to deliver almost three tons of food, fuel, oxygen, water and supplies to the residents of the International Space Station. The ISS Progress 15 craft lifted off on time from the Central Asian launch site ...more... 13 August 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-46. Flight: ISS EO-9. The Expedition 9 crew aboard the International Space Station prepared this week to receive another shipment of supplies. The crew also worked on several science experiments and routine maintenance of Station systems. A Russian Progress cargo craft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ...more... 14 August 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-47. Flight: ISS EO-9, ISS EO-10. An unpiloted Russian cargo ship linked up the International Space Station this morning to deliver almost three tons of food, fuel, oxygen, water and supplies to the residents onboard. The ISS Progress 15 craft automatically docked to the aft port of the Zvezda Service ...more... 20 August 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-48. Flight: ISS EO-9. The International Space Station crew focused this week on unloading 2½ tons of new equipment and supplies from a cargo craft that arrived Saturday. International Space Station Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA ISS Science Officer ...more... 27 August 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-49. Flight: ISS EO-9. Success was the key word this week aboard the International Space Station as maintenance efforts by the Expedition 9 crew paid off on several major equipment items. Early this week, NASA Flight Engineer and ISS Science Officer Mike Fincke performed ...more... 3 September 2004 - EVA ISS EO-9-2. Assignment: EVA Crew. Flight: ISS EO-9. The hatch was opened at 16:43 GMT. The astronauts used the Russian Orlan suits M-25 and M-26, requiring them to exit from the Pirs module airlock. The 70 kg PIG container on the Zarya module with the RRZh1 flow regulator valve panel was removed and jettisoned Three antennae were installed on the Zvezda module for future rendezvous and docking operations with the European ATV logistics spacecraft. 3 September 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-50. Flight: ISS EO-9. Smoothly and ahead of schedule, Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA Science Officer Mike Fincke completed the fourth and final spacewalk of their six-month mission today. Padalka and Fincke spent five hours, 21 minutes outside completing mainenance tasks and installing antennas to prepare for the initial arrival of a new European cargo ship next year. Wearing Russian Orlan spacesuits, Padalka and Fincke began the spacewalk at 11:43 ...more... 10 September 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-51. Flight: ISS EO-9. The oxygen-producing Elektron in of the International Space Station was restarted today after a troubleshooting procedure by Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka, but shut down again after operating for just over an hour. Russian specialists decided to forego further troubleshooting until Monday to give ...more... 17 September 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-52. Flight: ISS EO-9. Almost two weeks of troubleshooting apparently paid off today for the Expedition 9 crew as they restored an onboard oxygen generating unit to operation. Work with the Elektron unit, a device that recycles waste water into oxygen, was ...more... 24 September 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-53. Flight: ISS EO-9, ISS EO-10, ISS EP-7. With less than a month remaining in their stay aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA Science Officer Mike Fincke are preparing the orbiting complex for its next residents. The crew's work this week included taking inventory, performing maintenance on exercise equipment and continued troubleshooting of the onboard oxygen generator. Roskosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, announced this week the next Station ...more... 1 October 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-54. Flight: ISS EO-9, ISS EO-10, ISS EP-7. The International Space Station crew made steady progress with maintenance work this week, restoring an oxygen generator to partial operation and replacing a cabin air monitoring system. Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA ISS Science Officer Mike Fincke ...more... 8 October 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-55. Flight: ISS EO-9, ISS EO-10, ISS EP-7. As the end of its mission approaches, the Expedition 9 crew aboard the International Space Station prepared for the trip home by wrapping up science experiments and continuing maintenance operations of the vehicle. After spending six months onboard, the crew will greet its first visitors one week from today. Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA ISS Science Officer Mike Fincke ...more... 13 October 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-56. Flight: ISS EO-9, ISS EO-10, ISS EP-7. The tenth crew of the International Space Station rocketed into space tonight, beginning a six-month mission. The ISS Soyuz 9 spacecraft carried Station Expedition 10 Commander and NASA Science ...more... 16 October 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-57. Flight: ISS EO-9, ISS EO-10, ISS EP-7. A 10th crew has arrived at the International Space Station to begin a six-month stay. Soyuz Commander Salizhan Sharipov smoothly guided his Soyuz craft to a linkup with ...more... 23 October 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-58. Flight: ISS EO-9, ISS EO-10, ISS EP-7. After traveling more than 78 million miles aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Mike Fincke returned to Earth today. Returning with them was Russian Space Forces Test Cosmonaut Yuri Shargin, who had ...more... 24 October 2004 - Landing of Soyuz TMA-4. Assignment: Return Crew. Flight: ISS EO-10, ISS EO-9, ISS EP-7. At 1814 GMT on October 23 Padalka, Fincke and guest cosmonaut Shargin (delivered for a one week mission aboard Soyuz TMA-5), entered Soyuz TMA-4 and closed the hatches leaving Chiao and Sharipov as the EO-10 station crew. Soyuz TMA-4 undocked at 21:08 GMT and made a small separation burn at 21:11 GMT. At 23:42 GMT the deorbit burn lowered the orbit from 353 x 366 km to -23 x 355 km. The descent module separated at 00:08 GMT on October 24, with a landing at 50.47 deg N / 67.12 deg E near Arkalyk at 00:36 GMT. 29 October 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-59. Flight: ISS EO-9, ISS EO-10, ISS EP-7. The latest crewmembers to live and work aboard the International Space Station took a brief break early this week following handover from their departing colleagues, then began in earnest to acclimate themselves to their new home and orbiting laboratory. Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov activated ...more... 6 November 2004 - International Space Station Status Report #04-60. Flight: ISS EO-9, ISS EO-10, ISS EP-7. Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao and Cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov picked up the pace of scientific, maintenance and familiarization activities aboard the International Space Station this week. A highlight of the week's scientific activities was work with an advanced diagnostic ...more... Bibliography and Further Reading
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