Robert Shane Kimbrough is a United States Army officer and a National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut.
Education
Born in Killeen, Texas, Kimbrough attended The Lovett School in Atlanta, Georgia. Kimbrough graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1989 with a Bachelor of Surgery in aerospace engineering, and served as an Apache helicopter pilot in the first Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
Career
He was part of the first group of candidates selected for National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut training following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Kimbrough later attended and graduated from Georgia Technical with a master’s degree in Operations Research in 1998. He helped National Aeronautics and Space Administration train astronauts on landing procedures for several years before he himself was selected for training.
He holds the rank of Colonel in the United States. Army.
Kimbrough was a Mission Specialist on STS-126, which launched on November 14, 2008. During the mission, Kimbrough participated in two spacewalks, for a total time of 12 hours, 52 minutes in EVA.