Timothy Kopra

Tim Kopra
Official portrait, 2008
Born	Timothy Lennart Kopra (1963-04-09) April 9, 1963 (age 61) Austin, Texas, U.S.
Education	United States Military Academy (BS) Georgia Institute of Technology (MS) United States Army War College (MS) University of London (MBA) Columbia University (MBA)
Space career
NASA astronaut
Rank	Colonel, USA
Time in space	244d 1h 1m
Selection	NASA Group 18 (2000)
Total EVAs	3
Total EVA time	13h 31m
Missions	STS-127/128 (Expedition 20) Soyuz TMA-19M (Expedition 46/47)
Mission insignia

Timothy Lennart "Tim" Kopra (born April 9, 1963) is an engineer, a Colonel in the United States Army and a retired NASA astronaut. He served aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer for Expedition 20, returning to Earth aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-128 mission on September 11, 2009. He returned to the ISS for the second time in December 2015, as part of Expedition 46 and as the commander of 47.

In 2020, he was announced as the vice president of robotics and space operations at MDA Corporation.^[1]