- Hopkins and his crewmates, Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency, will launch on September 25 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard their Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft.
- Hopkins is a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force and the first member of the 2009 NASA Astronaut Class to travel to space.
- Hopkins is a native of Richland, Missouri. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and graduate degree from Stanford University.
Hopkins' Biography:
www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/hopkins-ms.html
International Space Station Expedition 37/38 Information:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition37/index.html#.Uh9w1mwo6Uk
"Train Like an Astronaut" Program:
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