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Kimbrough, 53, has three children with his wife, Robbie Lynn. His NASA bio says he enjoys baseball, golf, weightlifting and running.

NASA's Megan McArthur

McArthur, 49, is the mission’s pilot -- and is married to fellow astronaut Bob Behnken, who was part of the two-person crew that launched the first-ever NASA-SpaceX flight last May.

She was selected as an astronaut in 2000, and was aboard the final space shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope in 2009. She has spent 13 days in space.

80 days to our planned launch date! But who's counting?? pic.twitter.com/TiiQcp3c4v

— Megan McArthur (@Astro_Megan) January 29, 2021

Behnken said in an interview last August that as his wife prepares for her mission, his focus is on \"supporting her just as she did me\" and caring for their young son.

\"It’s definitely her turn to focus on getting her mission accomplished while I take care of the things that need to be taken care of for our home life,\" Behnken said.

McArthur quipped in a video released by NASA about the crew that the thing she is most looking forward to while living on the ISS is \"karaoke night.\"

JAXA's Akihiko \"Aki\" Hoshide

Hoshide, a mission specialist, is a native of Tokyo, and went on his first spaceflight in 2008.

After graduating from university in Tokyo, he got a master's degree from the University of Houston, Cullen College of Engineering in Texas.

In 2012, he spent 124 days on the ISS.

Can you see our smiles under the mask? Especially for @Thom_astro and me, since we got to sit in the driver’s seat LOL
Thanks for all the great training! https://t.co/MoHU6f4RpQ

— 星出 彰彦 (JAXA宇宙飛行士) (@Aki_Hoshide) April 15, 2021

The 52-year-old said he is most looking forward to \"spending some precious time with each other\" while at the space station.

Kimbrough, the mission's commander, quipped that Hoshide had the worst poker face out of the entire crew.

ESA's Thomas Pesquet

Pesquet, who is from France, is the first ESA astronaut to join a NASA-SpaceX mission.

How it started: How it's going: pic.twitter.com/2VL5RtxNvj

— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) October 10, 2020

He was selected to become an ESA astronaut in May 2009, and went on his first spaceflight in 2016. He spent six months on the ISS during his first mission.

The 43-year-old has a black belt in judo and also plays the saxophone.

When asked about one thing he was better at than the rest of his crew mates, Pesquet quipped, \"French.\"

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