Alan G. Poindexter

Status: Deceased
11/5/1961 – 7/1/2012
Nationality: American
Type: Government
Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Alan Goodwin “Dex” Poindexter was an American naval officer and a NASA astronaut. Poindexter was selected in the 1998 NASA Group (G17) and went into orbit aboard Space Shuttle missions STS-122, and STS-131.