Michael Foale
Michael Foale is an astronaut from United States of America affiliated with the government agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration, embarked on 6 space flights and engaging in 4 spacewalk(s) during his/her career as an astronaut.
Colin Michael Foale CBE is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six space missions, and is the only NASA astronaut to have flown extended missions aboard both Mir and the International Space Station. He was the first Briton to perform a space walk, and until 17 April 2008, he held the record for most time spent in space by a US citizen: 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes. He still holds the cumulative-time-in-space record for a UK citizen.
- Date of Birth: 01/06/1957
- Status: Retired
- First Flight: 03/24/1992
- Last Flight: 10/18/2003
- In Space: No
Launches
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-56
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-103
- Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-3
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-45
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-63
- Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-84
Spacewalks
PE-24 EVA 2
The spacewalk began at 09/06/1997 01:07 UTC and ended at 09/06/1997 07:07 UTC on the Mir for a total of 6 hours and 0 minutes.
STS-63 EVA
The spacewalk began at 02/09/1995 11:56 UTC and ended at 02/09/1995 16:25 UTC on the Low Earth Orbit for a total of 4 hours and 29 minutes.
STS-103 EVA 2
The spacewalk began at 12/23/1999 19:06 UTC and ended at 12/24/1999 03:16 UTC on the Hubble Space Telescope (LEO) for a total of 8 hours and 10 minutes.
Expedition 8 EVA
The spacewalk began at 02/26/2004 21:17 UTC and ended at 02/27/2004 01:12 UTC on the International Space Station for a total of 3 hours and 55 minutes.
