Spaceflight Participant, USA

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH:
Born July 14, 1951, in Zurich, Switzerland.

EDUCATION:
Graduated from Harvard University specializing in economics in 1974.

HOBBY: 
Has a complete command of English, French, Russian and German.

WORK EXPERIENCE:
From 1974 she worked as an editor, reporter in Forbes magazine. From 1977 Esther Dyson was an analyst in the research department of investment brokerage company New Court Securities focused on high technological sectors of economy. Later she became the information market analyst in a number of research companies and then bought out the Rosen Research Company from her employer and renamed it to EDventure Holdings.
From mid 1980 to 2006 she edited magazine Release 1.0. In 1997 Esther Dyson published her book Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age.
From 1998 to 2000 she was a chairman of the ICANN Corporation (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), a public organization which under the contract with the U.S. government is engaged in coordination of policy and technical protocols related to domain names.
Over decades she took an active part in venture financing of startup companies involved in long-term research and developments in the field of rendering on-line services, public health, genetics and spaceflights.
Dyson visited Russia many times and facilitated development of the native information market. Her articles and interview are often published in the Russian magazines devoted to economy, a market of high technologies and intellectual property.
Specializes in investments in digital technologies developed for mass media.
On October 7, 2008 she was selected as a backup of spaceflight participant - space tourist Charles Simonyi.
In October 2008 by the joint decision of medical-and-labor examination commission of IBMP and Yu.A. Gagarin CTC she was allowed for special training.
On December 19, 2008 by decision of the Chief Medical Board with participation of IBMP and Yu.A. Gagarin CTC specialists she was allowed for crew training (preflight training). From November 5, 2008 she began preflight training.
In January 2009 she began to train within the Soyuz TMA-14 backup crew, together with Maxim Suraev and Jeffrey Williams.

March 2009
Based on data of sites astronaut.ru. and WikiPedia.ru

NASA Astronaut, 
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, USA

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: 
August 14, 1969 in Arcadia, California, USA.

EDUCATION:
In 1993 she graduated from the California State University at Fullerton and received B.S. in Chemistry. In 1997 received Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Davis.

FAMILY STATUS: Married.
Husband: George Dyson.

HOBBY: Sprint, weight-lifting, tourism, softball, basketball, auto repair/maintenance. Has a licence of a private pilot.

PUBLICATIONS: Author of numerous papers and presentations at technical conferences and in scientific journals.

WORK EXPERIENCE:
When she studied at the University of California she was engaged in the development and design of electronics and hardware associated with a laser-ionization, mass spectrometers to study the atmospheric chemistry. 
At the same University she worked at the Environmental Monitoring Laboratory and was engaged in safety assurance when using harmful and radioactive materials.
For many years she worked as an electrician/inside wireman for her father's electrical contracting company doing commercial and light industrial type construction.
When she busied herself with writing her dissertation work she taught general chemistry laboratory at the University of California. Her dissertation work focused on investigating molecular-level surface reactivity and kinetics of metal surfaces using electron spectroscopy, laser desorption, and Fourier transform mass spectrometry techniques.
In June 1998 she was selected by NASA and enlisted in the Astronaut Corps. From August 1998 to August 1999 she passed a course of general space training, was qualified as a mission specialist and assigned to the Astronaut Office, NASA.
In 1999 she was assigned to the ISS Operations Braunch, participating in the testing and integration of the Russian hardware and software products developed for ISS.
In 2000, she was assigned prime Crew Support Astronaut for the 5th ISS Expedition Crew Caldwell worked at the Mission Control Center as spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM).
She performed her first space flight on August 8-21, 2007 as the mission specialist of the Endeavour Shuttle under STS-118 program. The main flight task was to deliver and install S5 truss segment to the International Space Station. The mission duration was 12 days, 17 hours, 55 minutes and 40 seconds.
In July 2008 it was reported that she was assigned to the prime crew for Expedition 23 to the ISS (ISS -23). On September 21, 2008 her assignment was confirmed in the ISS flight plan published by Roscosmos press-service. On November 21, 2008 her assignment was officially confirmed by NASA (press-release ¹ 08-306) when the ISS-20 - ISS-26 crew members were declared.

March 2010
Based on data of Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, NASA, USA
and site www.astronaut.ru