STS-131 - Crew

Crew

Position	Astronaut
Commander	Alan Poindexter Second spaceflight
Pilot	James Dutton First spaceflight
Mission Specialist 1	Richard Mastracchio Third spaceflight EV1
Mission Specialist Educator 2	Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger First spaceflight Flight Engineer/Intra-vehicular officer
Mission Specialist 3	Stephanie Wilson Third spaceflight Lead robotics officer
Mission Specialist 4	Naoko Yamazaki, JAXA First spaceflight Load master
Mission Specialist 5	Clayton Anderson Second spaceflight EV2
Notes: This was the final Space Shuttle mission with a seven person crew. This was the final Space Shuttle mission that contains one or more "rookie" astronauts; the missions after this had all-veteran crews. STS-131 was only the third mission in the Space Shuttle program to carry three female astronauts. Missions STS-40 and STS-96 were the first and the second. STS-131 marked the first time that two Japanese astronauts, Naoko Yamazaki from the shuttle crew, and Soichi Noguchi on the ISS, were in space together. With three female crew members arriving on-board Discovery and Expedition 23 Flight Engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson on the ISS, the STS-131 mission marked the first time that four women were in space at one time. Although Naoko Yamazaki is not the last non-U.S. astronaut, she was the last Japanese astronaut to fly on the space shuttle.

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