Joseph M. Acaba

Joseph Michael Acabá is an American educator, hydrogeologist, and NASA astronaut. In May 2004, he became the first person of Puerto Rican ancestry to be named as a NASA astronaut candidate, when he was selected as a member of NASA Astronaut Training Group 19. He completed his training on February 10, 2006, and was assigned to STS-119, which flew from March 15 to 28, 2009, to deliver the final set of solar arrays to the International Space Station. He is the first person of Caribbean and Puerto Rican origin, and the twelfth of fifteen people of Ibero-american heritage to have flown to space as a NASA astronaut.

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1967 Wikimedia, Wikidata
Joe Acaba; Joseph Michael Acaba
astronaut, teacher, hydrogeologist,

Soyuz MS-06 ⓘ
Russian crewed flight to the ISS
Soyuz TMA-04M ⓘ
2012 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS
STS-119 ⓘ
human spaceflight
Expedition 53 ⓘ
Long-duration spaceflight
Expedition 54 ⓘ
54th expedition to the International Space Station
Expedition 31 ⓘ
expedition to the International Space Station
Expedition 32 ⓘ
expedition to the International Space Station

United States,

1967-05-17T00:00:00Z

1967 Joseph M. Acaba

2012-04-27T00:00:00Z

2012-07-01T00:00:00Z

2012 Expedition 31

2012-07-01T00:00:00Z

2012-09-16T00:00:00Z

2012 Expedition 32

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STS-119 Crew Presents Montage to President Obama DVIDS840374

Joseph M. Acaba with a halloween t-shirt.

Expedition 31 crew portrait

Vice President Visits Marshall Space Flight Center

Expedition 54 watching The Last Jedi (iss054e004175)

Joseph M. Acaba with a halloween t-shirt.

Expedition 54 watching The Last Jedi (iss054e004175)

2004 class of astronauts

US Navy 040506-N-0057D-004 Lt. Cmdr. Chris Cassidy, second from the right, stands in front the Space Shuttle Enterprise with retired Senator-Former Astronaut John Glenn

Joseph Acaba

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source

class	orbit		Soyuz MS-06	Alexander Misurkin, Joseph M. Acaba, Mark T. Vande Hei, Soyuz MS, human spaceflight, space mission,	Wikidata
class	orbit		Soyuz TMA-04M	Gennady Padalka, Joseph M. Acaba, Sergey Revin, Soyuz TMA-M, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		STS-119	Dominic A. Antonelli, John L. Phillips, Joseph M. Acaba, Koichi Wakata, Lee Archambault, Richard R. Arnold, Sandra Magnus, Steven Swanson, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight		Expedition 53	Alexander Misurkin, Joseph M. Acaba, Mark T. Vande Hei, Paolo Nespoli, Randolph Bresnik, Sergey Ryazansky, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight		Expedition 54	Alexander Misurkin, Anton Shkaplerov, Joseph M. Acaba, Mark T. Vande Hei, Norishige Kanai, Scott D. Tingle, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	2012	Expedition 31	André Kuipers, Donald Pettit, Gennady Padalka, Joseph M. Acaba, Oleg Kononenko, Sergey Revin, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	2012	Expedition 32	Akihiko Hoshide, Gennady Padalka, Joseph M. Acaba, Sergey Revin, Sunita Williams, Yuri Malenchenko, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
commons	image		STS-119 Crew Presents Montage to President Obama DVIDS840374		Commons
commons	image		Joseph M. Acaba with a halloween t-shirt.		Commons
commons	image		Expedition 31 crew portrait		Commons
commons	image		Vice President Visits Marshall Space Flight Center		Commons
commons	image		Expedition 54 watching The Last Jedi (iss054e004175)		Commons
commons	image		Joseph M. Acaba with a halloween t-shirt.		Commons
commons	image		Expedition 54 watching The Last Jedi (iss054e004175)		Commons
commons	image		2004 class of astronauts		Commons
commons	image		US Navy 040506-N-0057D-004 Lt. Cmdr. Chris Cassidy, second from the right, stands in front the Space Shuttle Enterprise with retired Senator-Former Astronaut John Glenn		Commons
commons	image		Joseph Acaba		Commons

Joseph M. Acaba

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