How old is Mark Vande Hei?

How old is Mark Vande Hei?

55 years (November 10, 1966)
Mark T. Vande Hei/Age

Is Mark Vande Hei married?

Mark Thomas Vande Hei is a retired United States Army officer and NASA astronaut who served as a flight Engineer for Expedition 53 and 54 on the International Space Station. He is married to Julie Vande Hei.

How old are today’s astronauts?

Astronaut candidates have ranged between the ages of 26 and 46, with the average age being 34.

Who is in space right now 2021?

Seven people are working at the International Space Station. They are NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur and Mark Vande Hei; Japan’s Akihiko Hoshide; Russian cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Oleg Novitskiy, and European Space Agency’s Thomas Pesquet, according to NASA records.

Who is on board the ISS at the moment?

The current ISS occupants are NASA astronauts Megan McArthur, Mark Vande Hei, Kimbrough, Hopkins, Walker and Glover; JAXA’s Noguchi and Akihiko Hoshide; the European Space Agency’s Thomas Pesquet; and cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov.

Is Mark Vande Hei in space?

American astronaut Mark Vande Hei will spend nearly a year in space. NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei will remain on the International Space Station until March, giving him a record-setting spaceflight.

Who invented space flight?

Yuri Gagarin
On April 12, 1961, the USSR opened the era of crewed spaceflight, with the flight of the first cosmonaut (Russian name for space travelers), Yuri Gagarin. Gagarin’s flight, part of the Soviet Vostok space exploration program, took 108 minutes and consisted of a single orbit of the Earth.

Who has spent the longest time in space?

cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov
Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov spent 437 days on the Mir space station from 1994 and 1995 still holds the record for the longest time a person has stayed in space. The longer duration of his stay gives Vande Hei another chance to perform a spacewalk.