John M. Lounge Status: Deceased 6/28/1946 – 3/1/2011 Nationality: American Type: Government Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration ohn Michael “Mike” Lounge was an American engineer, a United States Navy officer, a Vietnam War veteran, and a NASA astronaut. A veteran of three Space Shuttle flights, Lounge logged over 482 hours in space. He was a mission specialist on STS-51-I (1985) and STS-26 (1988) and was the flight engineer on STS-35 (1990).