Robert Shane Kimbrough (born June 4, 1967) is a retired United States Army officer and NASA astronaut.

He was part of the first group of candidates selected for NASA astronaut training following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

Kimbrough is a veteran of three spaceflights, the first being a Space Shuttle flight, and the second being a six-month mission to the ISS on board a Russian Soyuz craft.

[1] Born June 4, 1967, in Killeen, Texas, Kimbrough attended The Lovett School in Atlanta, Georgia, graduating in 1985.

[2] Kimbrough served as an Apache helicopter pilot in the first Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm in 1991.

[5] Kimbrough launched onboard Soyuz MS-02 to the International Space Station on October 19, 2016, as part of a four-month mission for Expedition 49 /50.

During the EVA, they installed three new adapter plates and hooked up electrical connectors preparing the way to replace the ISS batteries.

[16] During his stay on the ISS, he performed 3 EVAs to install the iROSA solar arrays on the P6 Truss, with Thomas Pesquet.