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Thomas Henry "Tom" Marshburn
Born (1960-08-29) August 29, 1960 (age 63)
Statesville, North Carolina
StatusActive
NationalityAmerican
OccupationMedical Doctor
Space career
NASA Astronaut
Time in space
Currently in Space
Selection2004 NASA Group 19
MissionsSTS-127 Soyuz TMA-07M
Mission insignia
 File:Soyuz-TMA-07M-Mission-Patch.png

Thomas Henry "Tom" Marshburn (born August 29, 1960) is an American physician and a NASA astronaut. Marshburn was born in Statesville, North Carolina. He served as a Mission Specialist on STS-127. Dr Marshburn is a member of the Soyuz TMA-07M crew, scheduled for launch to ISS in December 2012 to join Expedition 34.[1]

Education

Marshburn attended Henderson High School in Atlanta, Georgia, where he graduated in 1978. After high school, Tom received a bachelor of science degree in physics from Davidson College in North Carolina in 1982. Marshburn then went on to obtain a masters in engineering physics from the University of Virginia in 1984. After that Marshburn went to Wake Forest University where he got a doctorate of medicine degree in 1989. Upon graduation, he went to the University of Texas Medical Branch where he graduated with a masters in medical science in 1997.

Special honors and organizations

Marshburn is a member of several organizations and has received several different awards. Some of his awards include the NASA Superior Achievement award in 1998, Space and Life Sciences Division Special Space flight Achievement Award in 2003, 2004 and the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Superior Achievement Award in January 2004. Tom belongs to the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the Aerospace Medical Association.

Medical career

Marshburn trained in emergency medicine at St. Vincent Hospitals emergency medicine program in Toledo, Ohio. Tom also worked as a Life Flight physician. After three years of training, the American Board of Emergency Medicine certified him as a doctor. After being certified, he worked as an emergency physician in Seattle, Washington, before being accepted in the first class of the NASA/UTMB Space Medicine Fellowship in Galveston, Texas. Upon completion of the program he worked in area emergency rooms in the Houston, Texas area and at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He also worked as an attending physician for the emergency medicine residency for The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

NASA career

Thomas Marshburn during water survival training at Pensacola Naval Air Station.

Marshburn joined NASA in 1994, serving as a flight surgeon at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas in November 1994. He was assigned to the Space Shuttle Medical Operations and the joint US/Russian Space Program. Marshburn served as the flight surgeon to NASA personnel deployed to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center in Star City, Russia from February 1996 to May 1997. After that he served in the same role at the Center for Flight Control in Carole, Russia in support for NASA Expedition 4 to the Mir Space Station. Marshburn served as co-chair of medical operations for the Shuttle/Mir Space Program from July 1997 to August 1998.From 1998 to 2000, Marshburn was deputy flight surgeon for Neuronal (STS-98) and lead flight surgeon for STS-101.

Marshburn spent 10 months as a NASA representative to the Harvard/MIT Smart Medical Systems Team of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. After that he served as lead flight surgeon for Expedition 7 to the International Space Station in 2003, supporting from Russia, Kazakhstan and Houston. During this time until his selection, Marshburn served as Medical Operations Lead for the ISS. His activities included developing the biomedical training program for flight surgeons and astronaut crew medical officers, and managing the ISS Health Maintenance System.

Marshburn was selected in May 2004 to be a NASA astronaut. He completed his Astronaut Candidate Training in February 2006. This included scientific and technical briefings, intensive instruction in Shuttle and International Space Station Systems, physical training, T-38 flight training and water and wilderness survival training. Completion of this training for various technical assignments within the Astronaut Office and future flight assignment as a mission specialist. Marshburn's first flight was on STS-127, which lifted off on July 15, 2009 at 6:03 p.m. EDT and landed on July 31, 2009. The mission delivered the Japanese-built Exposed Facility (JEM-EF) and the Experiment Logistics Module Exposed Section (ELM-ES) to the International Space Station.[2] Marshburn took part in three spacewalks during the mission.[3]

In May 2010, Marshburn served as an aquanaut during the NEEMO 14 mission aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory, living and working underwater for fourteen days.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ "Expedition 34". NASA.
  2. ^ NASA (2008). "NASA Assigns Crews for STS-127 and Expedition 19 Missions". NASA. Retrieved February 11, 2008.
  3. ^ NASA (June 6, 2009). "STS-127 Press Kit" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
  4. ^ NASA (July 9, 2010). "NASA - NEEMO 14". NASA. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  5. ^ Alexander, Aaron (2010). "Archive for the 'NEEMO 14' Mission". NURC. Retrieved September 26, 2011.

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