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Michael Foale

Portrait photograph of Michael Foale

Photo: NASA / Public domain (US government work)

Michael Foale is a British-American astrophysicist and a former NASA astronaut. He is the only NASA astronaut to have flown extended missions aboard both the Mir space station and the International Space Station. He was the second Briton in space and the first to perform a spacewalk. His flights included Space Shuttle missions from STS-45 in 1992 to STS-103 in 1999, a long stay on Mir in 1997, and Soyuz TMA-3 in 2003, when he commanded Expedition 8 on the station. Until 17 April 2008 he held the record for the most time in space by a US citizen, at 374 days.

Born
6 January 1957
Country
United States
Flights
7: STS-45 (1992), STS-56 (1993), STS-63 (1995), STS-84 (1997), STS-86 (1997), STS-103 (1999), Soyuz TMA-3 (2003)
Time in space
373 days 18 hours
Stations visited
International Space Station, as part of Expedition 8

Data as of 2 November 2026. Source: Wikidata (CC0). All people who have flown in space.

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  1. Mir in 1997: Fire, a Failed Docking System and a Progress Collision

    Calamine Waffles

  2. Mir: 15 Years of Modules, Mold, Fire and a Progress Collision

    Classic Aerospace History
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Mir: 15 Years of Modules, Mold, Fire and a Progress Collision

Classic Aerospace History

Duration 45:51

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  1. Mir: 15 Years of Modules, Mold, Fire and a Progress Collision

    DocumentaryClassic Aerospace History · 45:51

  2. Mir in 1997: Fire, a Failed Docking System and a Progress Collision

    DocumentaryCalamine Waffles · 21:06

    Mission: Mir Space Station

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