Thomas Marshburn

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Thomas Henry "Tom" Marshburn (born August 29, 1960) is an American physician and a NASA astronaut.

He served as a Mission Specialist on STS-127.

Marshburn was a member of the Soyuz TMA-07M crew which launched to ISS in December 2012 to join Expedition 34.

Education

Marshburn was born in Statesville, North Carolina. Marshburn graduated from Henderson High School in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1978. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Davidson College, North Carolina, in 1982, and a Master's degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Virginia in 1984. He received a Doctor of Medicine degree from Wake Forest University in 1989, and a Master of Medical Science from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1997. He trained in emergency medicine and worked in emergency rooms in Texas and Massachusetts.

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Medical career

Marshburn obtained his medical education and spent time as a flight physician in Toledo, Ohio, where he also worked as a flight doctor. He was trained by the American Board of Emergency Medicine in 1992 after three years of preparation. He spent time in Seattle, Washington, before being accepted into the first class of the NASA/UTMB Space Medicine Fellowship in Galveston, Texas. Since finishing the fellowship in 1995, he worked as an emergency physician in Houston, Texas, and at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. During this time, he served as an attending physician for the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston's emergency medicine residency.

NASA career

Marshburn started working at NASA in November 1994 and spent as a flight surgeon at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He was sent to Space Shuttle Medical Operations and the joint US-Russian Space Program. He served as a flight surgeon for NASA from February 1996 to May 1997, then moved to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center in Star City, Russia, then worked in the Center for Flight Control in Korolyov, Russia, in support of the NASA Expedition 4 to the Mir Space Station. He was co-chair of Medical Operations for the Shuttle-Mir Program from 1997 to 1998. He served as deputy Flight Surgeon for Neuronal (STS-98) and lead Flight Surgeon for the STS-101 mission to the International Space Station from 1998 to 2000 (ISS).

He served as the lead flight Surgeon for Expedition 7 to the ISS in 2003 after being out of Boston, Massachusetts, spending ten months as a NASA representative to the Harvard/MIT Smart Medical Systems Team of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. Marshburn served as Medical Operations Lead for the ISS until he was chosen as an astronaut. His responsibilities included the establishment of the biomedical education program for flight surgeons and astronaut crew medical officers, as well as the operation of the ISS Health Maintenance System.

Marshburn was selected in May 2004 to be a NASA astronaut. In February 2006, he completed his Astronaut Candidate Training. This included scientific and technical briefings, extensive training in Shuttle and International Space Station systems, physical preparation, T-38 flight preparation, and wilderness survival training. He was trained for a variety of scientific positions within the Astronaut Office and future flight assignments as a mission specialist.

Marshburn served as an aquanaut on the NEEMO 14 mission aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory in May 2010, living and working submerged for fourteen days.

He served as back up flight Engineer 1 for the Soyuz MS-13 and Soyuz MS-15 long-duration flights to the ISS in 2019, first backing up Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and American-Swedish astronaut Jessica Meir.

Marshburn's first flight was on STS-127, which launched at 6:03 p.m. EDT on July 15, 2009, and landed on July 31, 2009. The mission brought the Exposed Facility (JEM-EF) and the Experiment Logistics Module Exposed Section (ELM-ES) to the International Space Station. During the mission, Marshburn participated in three spacewalks.

Marshburn, a Flight Engineer on Expedition 34/35, joined the International Space Station in Soyuz TMA-07M on December 19, 2012, from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome, as a flight engineer and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko. Expedition 34 commander Kevin A. Ford and cosmonauts Evgeny Tarelkin and Oleg Novitskiy welcomed the crew aboard the ISS. Christopher Cassidy, a Marshburn and Expedition 35 flight engineer, undertook an unplanned spacewalk on May 11, 2013 to upgrade a pump controller box that was suspected of an ammonia coolant leak. On May 13, 2013, Marshburn and his crew returned to Earth.

Marshburn launched the SpaceX Crew-3 spaceflight on November 11, 2021, as part of the long-distance Expedition 66 mission onboard the ISS. He and fellow explorer Kayla Barron on the exterior of the ISS shortly after the mission began. On March 29, Anton Shkaplerov took over the ISS's command. After the arrival of Crew-4 and the assignment of command to Oleg Artemyev, Crew-3 landed on May 6, 2022, after 176 days in space.

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