Andrew J. Feustel
- Status: Retired
- In Space: No
- Date of Birth: 08/25/1965
- First Flight: 05/11/2009
- Last Flight: 03/21/2018
Launches
- Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-134
- Soyuz-FG | Soyuz MS-08
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-125
Andrew J. Feustel, a American astronaut affiliated with the government agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration, embarked on 3 space flights and engaging in 9 spacewalks during his/her career as an astronaut.
Andrew Jay “Drew” Feustel is a geophysicist and a NASA astronaut. Following several years working as a geophysicist, Feustel was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in July 2000. His first spaceflight in May 2009, STS-125, lasted just under 13 days. This was a mission with six other astronauts to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis. Feustel performed three spacewalks during the mission. His second spaceflight was STS-134, which launched on May 16, 2011 and landed on June 1, 2011. STS-134 was the penultimate Space Shuttle flight. Feustel returned to space on March 21, 2018 on Soyuz MS-08 with Expedition 55/56. For expedition 56, he commanded the International Space Station, before handing over to Alexander Gerst on October 3, 2018.
