Topic: Michael Barratt

A tight-knit crew of six veteran astronauts are gearing up to ride the space shuttle Discovery on her last voyage beyond Earth this week.. They are flying on the final mission for shuttle Discovery - STS-133 - as NASA prepares to retire its shuttle ...
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying commander Gennady Padalka, flight engineer Michael Barratt, and Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte undocked from the International Space Station on Saturday and plunged to a successful landing in Kazakhstan early Sunday.. Padalka could be seen enjoying ...
The Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft carrying cosmonaut Maxim Suraev, NASA flight engineer Jeffrey Williams, and Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte maneuvered to a smooth docking with the International Space Station early Friday to close out a two-day orbital chase.. With Suraev and ...
KENNEDY -Chief astronaut Steven Lindsey, a veteran of four shuttle missions, will command an all-veteran six-member crew for the final planned space shuttle flight next year, NASA announced Friday. Lindsey will be joined by pilot Eric Boe and mission specialists Benjamin "Al ...
Russian, US astronauts move docking mechanism in 'spacewalk' in international station airlockTwo international space station crewmen squeezed into a small airlock Wednesday and moved a docking mechanism to accommodate a research module expected to arrive later this year.American Michael Barratt and ...
Two spacewalkers successfully installed a set of antennas on the International Space Station to prepare for the arrival of a new module this fall.. Russian station commander Gennady Padalka and NASA flight engineer Michael Barratt labored for almost five hours outside the ...
The second half of the team - Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne of ESA, and Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk - arrived May 29, boosting the population of long-term residents at the International Space Station (ISS) from its usual three to ...
An American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut will step outside the International Space Station early Friday to prepare the orbital lab for a new module slated to arrive later this year.. Russian station commander Gennady Padalka and NASA flight engineer Michael Barratt ...
"I come from a large family and I'm used to a lot of activity and busyness and a lot of laughter, and we certainly have that now with these guys coming," U.S. astronaut Michael Barratt said Monday. "Up here, the ...
Orchestrating the work of six full-time astronauts aboard the International Space Station is a bit like " Barratt, space station commander Gennady Padalka, and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata were joined Friday by three new full-time crew members--cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, European Space Agency astronaut ...