Stephen Bowen (astronaut), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Stephen Bowen (astronaut)

American astronaut

Date of Birth: 13-Feb-1964

Place of Birth: Cohasset, Massachusetts, United States

Profession: astronaut, military officer, submariner

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Stephen Gerard Bowen (born February 13, 1964) is a United States Navy submariner and a NASA astronaut; he was the second submariner to travel into space.
Bowen has been on three spaceflights, all of which were Space Shuttle missions to the International Space Station.
His first mission, STS-126, took place in November 2008, and his second was STS-132 in May 2010. In March 2011, Bowen completed his third spaceflight as a Mission Specialist on STS-133, which was Space Shuttle Discovery's final planned flight.
Having flown on both STS-132 and STS-133, Bowen became the first and only astronaut to fly on consecutive shuttle missions.
Originally Tim Kopra was scheduled to fly on STS-133, but Kopra had a bicycle injury shortly before the mission, and so he was replaced by Bowen.