Mark T. Vande Hei
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| NASA Astronaut | |
| Nationality | American |
| Status | Active |
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November 10, 1966 Falls Church, Virginia, U.S. |
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Other occupation
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ISS flight controller |
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Time in space
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| Selection | 2009 NASA Group 20 |
| Missions | Soyuz MS-06 (Expedition 53/54) |
Mark Thomas Vande Hei (born November 10, 1966) is a current NASA astronaut who is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station in September 2017.
Lt. Colonel Vande Hei, U.S. Army, was born November 10, 1966, in Falls Church, Virginia. He graduated from Benilde-St. Margaret's High School in Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, in 1985. Vande Hei earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Physics from Saint John's University in 1989, and a Master of Science degree in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 1999.
Vande Hei was commissioned in the U.S. Army through the ROTC program in 1989 and became a combat engineer. After earning his master's degree in 1999, he became an assistant professor of physics at the United States Military Academy in West Point. In 2003, he became part of the Army's 1st Space Battalion at Peterson Air Force Base. Vande Hei served in Iraq in Operation Provide Comfort and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Vande Hei began working at Johnson Space Center in 2006 as part of the U.S. Army contingent there. He works as a communications officer (which is a flight controller responsible for communicating with astronauts in space) for the International Space Station. In June 2009, Vande Hei was selected as a member of the NASA Astronaut Group 20 and he completed astronaut candidate training in June 2011.
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