Michael Scott Hopkins is a United States Air Force colonel and NASA astronaut. He made his first spaceflight as a Flight Engineer on Soyuz TMA-10MExpedition 37Expeditions 38, from September 2013 until March 2014. Hopkins is scheduled to become the first astronaut to transfer to the U.S. Space Force.
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Michael Scott Hopkins is a United States Air Force colonel and NASA astronaut. He made his first spaceflight as a Flight Engineer on Soyuz TMA-10MExpedition 37Expeditions 38, from September 2013 until March 2014. Hopkins is scheduled to become the first astronaut to transfer to the U.S. Space Force, participating in a transfer ceremony on the International Space Station. He is the first member of his astronaut class to fly in space. He was selected in June 2009 as a member of the NASA Astronaut Group 20. Hopkins was born on December 28, 1968 in Lebanon, Missouri but grew up on a farm in Richland, Missouri in a United Methodist family. He graduated from the School of the Osage High School in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, in 1987.
He entered the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1991 and graduated in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering. Hopkins received his commission in the Air Force via the Air Air Force ROTC in 1992. He followed his undergraduate studies with a Master of Sciencedegree in Aerospace engineering from Stanford University in 1992, where he was a distinguished graduate. In 1996, he attended the. U. S. Air Force Test Pilot School as a flight test engineer. In 2002, he was selected as an Olmsted Scholar by the George and Carol Olmstead Foundation.
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