Kevin A. Ford

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Kevin Anthony Ford is a retired United States Air Force Colonel and a NASA astronaut. Ford has received a number of special honors and awards, some of which are the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal, Aerial Achievement Medal and the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal. Ford has also logged more than 5,000 flying hours and also holds FAA commercial certificates for airplanes, helicopters and gliders. Ford has served in many roles at NASA since his selection in July 2000. The roles include as a Capsule Communicator or CAPCOM. He was also the Director Of Operations at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia from January 2004 to January 2005. He was pilot of STS-128 and Flight Engineer 2 of Soyuz TMA-06M from October 23, 2012 to March 16, 2013.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

Born in

Portland

Education

University of Florida; U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School; University of Notre Dame; Blackford High School; Air Force Institute of Technology

Awards

NASA Distinguished Service Medal; Commendation Medal; Legionnaire of Legion of Merit

From Wikidata.

• Soyuz FG | Soyuz TMA-06MFlight Engineer · Success · with Evgeny Tarelkin, Oleg NovitskiyOctober 23, 2012
• Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-128Pilot · Success · with Christer Fuglesang, Frederick W. Sturckow, John D. Olivas, José Hernández, Nicole Stott, Patrick G. ForresterAugust 29, 2009 · 03:59 UTC

• Expedition 34International Space Station · Commander2012-11-18 – 2013-03-15
• Expedition 33International Space Station · Flight Engineer2012-09-16 – 2012-11-18