Selected as a mission specialist by NASA in July 2000, Drew reported for training in August 2000. Following the completion of two years of training and evaluation, the Washington, DC native was initially assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Station Operations Branch. From January-November 2009 he served as Director of Operations at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. He has logged more than 305 hours in space, having completed his first space flight on STS-118 in 2007.
