Michael S. Hopkins

Michael S. Hopkins

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.

About Michael S. Hopkins in brief

Summary Michael S. HopkinsMichael 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.