Name: Thirsk, Robert Country: Canada M/F: M Number of Flights: 2

Space Flights Launch Date - Shuttle Landing Date - Shuttle
1. STS-78 June 20, 1996 - Columbia July 7, 1996 - Columbia
Space Flights Launch Date - Flight Up Landing Date - Flight Down
2. ISS Crew 20/21 May 27, 2009 - Soyuz TMA-15 December 1, 2009 - Soyuz TMA-15

Space Flights Descriptions
STS-41G
(Backup Crew)
Deployed Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS)
Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications Payload 3 (OSTA-3) containing remote sensing experiments - First space flight to include two women
1. STS-78 Life and Microgravity Spacelab Mission (LMS)
Soyuz TMA-6
(Backup Crew)
ISS Crew Transfer Flight 10S (ISS "Alpha" ENEIDE Mission)
2. ISS Crew 20/21 ISS "Alpha" Expedition 20/21 Crew (ISS Crew Transfer Flight 19S)
Docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on May 29, 2009 aboard Soyuz TMA-15
Returned to Earth on December 1, 2009 aboard Soyuz TMA-15

Return to Master List Two Spaceflights
Space Shuttle Program - 1996 (PS) / Backup Crew
International Space Station Program - Phase IV - 2009 / Backup Crew / Exp.-Crews
Foreign Cosmonauts launched by Russia Canadian Astronauts
Foreign Astronauts launched by USA

Updated - December 1, 2009