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ANDREW MORGAN
PROFILE
Full Name:	Andrew Richard 'Drew' MORGAN.
Rank:	Colonel, US Army, M.D.
Born:	5 February 1976, in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA (American). Considered New Castle, Pennsylvania, to be his hometown.
Education:	1994: Graduated Dover High School, Delaware. 1998: BSc degree in Environmental Engineering at the US Military Academy, West Point, New York. 2002: Doctorate in Medicine from Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland. 2005: Completed residency in Emergency Medicine, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington. 2013: Completed a fellowship on Primary Care Sports Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Fairfax, Virginia.
Career Highlights:	1976-94: Born to a military family, during his childhood he moved around and was educated in California, New York, Texas, Delaware and in Great Britain. 1994-98: Following graduation from high school, he entered the US Military Academy at West Point; member of the West Point Parachute Display Team ("The Black Knights"), participating in competitive skydiving; (1998) BSc degree awarded and he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant, US Army. 1998-2005: Pursued his medical qualifications, graduating medical school in 2002 and completing residency training in 2005 prior to volunteering for the army special operations community. 2005- : Attending physician at Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he served as a medical team member in the joint Special Operations Command. He also worked as a part-time physician for the US Army Parachute Team ("The Golden Knights"), maintaining his parachute skills. Battalion Surgeon, 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) "Desert Eagles". A three-year assignment on flight, combat dive and airborne status. -2013: Selected for strategic special operations [Fort Belvoir, Virginia] Washington DC area. During this assignment, he deployed in direct support of combat operations in Iraq (once), Afghanistan (twice) and Africa (at least twice). At the time of his selection to the NASA astronaut programme he was preparing for a move to Germany with the Army.

NASA ASTRONAUT ASSIGNMENTS
2013:	(17 Jun) Selected as one of eight candidates for NASA Group 21 ("The Eight Balls"); (Aug) began a two-year Ascan training programme; (Aug) three-day wilderness survival training near Rangeley, Maine; Ascan training.
2014:	Ascan training.
2015:	Ascan training; (7 Jul) graduated Ascan training; (8 Jul) silver astronaut pin awarded; assigned to the EVA/Robotics Branch and the Crew Operations Branch.
2016:	Astronaut Office (Code CB) technical assignments; (1 Jun-Apr 2023) assumed command from Vande Hei as army detachment commander and Senior Army Astronaut, US Army Space and Missile Defense Command, NASA detachment, JSC, Houston, Texas.
2017:	CB technical assignments.
2018:	(2 Feb) Named as BUp Flight Engineer-2 (FE-2) for Soyuz MS-11 and identified as prime FE-2 for Soyuz MS-13 (ISS EO-60/61); (5 Feb) began Soyuz MS/FE-2 training, TsPK, Russia; Soyuz MS training; (24 May) named to ISS EO-60/61; ISS Expedition training; (27 Sep) promoted to Colonel (while underwater during a training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory); (13-15 Nov) Soyuz MS and Russian segment exams; (2 Dec) Soyuz MS-11 BUp crew assignments confirmed; due to Soyuz MS-10 abort and reshuffling of crews he was also confirmed as BUp FE-2 for Soyuz MS-12; (3 Dec) BUp FE-2 Soyuz MS-11; ISS Expedition training.
2019:	ISS Expedition training; (14 Mar) BUp FE-2 Soyuz MS-12; (19 Mar) Morgan's tour on ISS was to be longer than first planned, returning in April 2020 on Soyuz MS-15; ISS Expedition training; (2-28 Jun) Soyuz MS and Russian segment exams passed; ISS Expedition training; (19 Jul) assignment as FE-2 Soyuz MS-13 confirmed; (20 Jul-17 Apr 2020) flew as FE-2 Soyuz MS-13 for ISS EO-60/61/62 (271 days 12 hrs; FE-9 and US Segment Lead); (21 Aug) EVA 6 hrs 37 min (as EV2); (6 Oct) EVA 7 hrs 1 min (EV2); (11 Oct) EVA 6 hrs 45 min (EV1); (15 Nov) EVA 6 hrs 39 min (EV2); (22 Nov) EVA 6 hrs 33 min (EV2); (2 Dec) EVA 6 hrs 2 min (EV2); IN SPACE.
2020:	IN SPACE; (25 Jan) EVA 6 hrs 16 min (EV1); (17 Apr) returned as FE Soyuz MS-15; (from Apr) ISS Expedition debriefing and recovery.
2021-23:	Astronaut Office Mission Support Branch Chief; Crew Operations Officer, MCC team liaison for ISS EO 67/68; Increment Lead for ISS EO-67; (5 May 2021) awarded his US Army Astronaut Wings.
2023:	(4 Apr) Relinquished role of Commander, US Army Astronauts, JSC, to Anne McClain pending rotational assignment to Kwajalein Atoll in June.
Jun 2023 - 4 Jun 2025:	Rotational assignment; Commander, US Army Kwajalein Atoll and US Army Garrison, Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands; senior military advisor for the US ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
24 Jun 2025 - 28 May 2026:	Rotational assignment; Senior Commander, White Sands Missile Range (WSMR); (28 May 2026) retired from NASA to continue his Army career.

POST-ASTRONAUT EXPERIENCE
2026:	WSMR Commander, US Army; (28 May) promoted to Brigadier-General, US Army.

Andrew MORGAN Space Flight Missions
Mission	Vehicle	Position	Dates DD/MM/YYYY	Duration DD:HH:MM:SS	EVAs (HH:MM)
ISS EO-60/61/62	Soyuz MS-13 [ascent] Soyuz MS-15 [descent]	Soyuz FE-2 ISS EO FE-9	20/07/2019-17/04/2020	271:12:47:50	7 (48:48)

Missions Flown:		1	Total Flight Time:	271:12:47:50	7 (48:48)

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official group portrait of the eight astronauts in NASA's 21s selection from2013.

Group portrait of the eight astronauts selected by NASA for Group 21 in 2013. (Back row l to r) Jessica Meir, Josh Cassada, Victor Glover, Drew Morgan and Christina Koch. (Front row l to r) Anne McClain, Nick Hague and Nicole Mann. Image courtesy of NASA.

Morgan closes his eyes as he receives a blessing from the Russian Orthodox church at Baikonur on his back-up assignment for ISS Expedition 59

In his role as BUp FE for Expedition 59, Morgan receives a blessing from a Russian Orthodox Priest at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, prior to departing for the launch of the prime crew on 14 March 2019. Image courtesy of NASA/Bill Ingalls.

the three members of ISS Expedition 60 shake hands as they pose for photographs prior to their launch.

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the three members of ISS Expedition 60 pose for pictures in front of their spacecraft during pre-launch preparations. (L to r) Drew Morgan (NASA), Aleksander Skvortsov (Roscosmos) and Luca Parmitano (ESA, Italy). Image courtesy of Andrey Shelepin/GCTC.

Morgan poses aboard ISS in front of a group of NanoRacks experiments in miniature laboratories.

Morgan is pictured with a group of NanoRacks experiments aboard the ISS during Expedition 60. The NanoRacks are used for a range of experiments such as plant, fungi and bacteria growth, rust formation and water purification, and are activated by the crew. They are later returned to student teams on Earth for analysis. Image courtesy of NASA.

outside the ISS, Morgan waves at the camera during on of his seven EVAs

Morgan waves as he is photographed on an EVA in which he helped to install the International Docking Adapter 3 second commercial crew vehicle docking port. During his stay on ISS, Morgan completed seven EVAs totalling over two days outside. Image courtesy of NASA.

morgan is photographed in scout uniform aboard ISS to commemorate a 100th anniversary for the movement.

Assistant Scoutmaster Morgan is photographed aboard ISS wearing his Boy Scouts of America uniform, displaying patches commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Bay Area Council Summer Camp. Image courtesy of NASA.

morgan is helped out of the Soyuz spacecraft on his return from ISS after 271 days in space

Morgan is helped out of the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft at the end of Expedition 62 in April 2020, moments after he, Cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir had landed in Kazakhstan. Meir and Skripochka had returned after 205 days in space, while Morgan had spent 272 days aloft. Image courtesy of NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin.