Michael Foale

Colin Michael Foale is a British-American astrophysicist and a 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 second Briton in space and the first to perform a space walk. Until 17 April 2008, he held the record for most time spent in space by a US citizen: 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes, and as of 2024 he held the cumulative-time-in-space record for a British citizen.

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1957  Wikimedia, Wikidata
C. Michael Foale; Colin Michael Foale
astronaut, astrophysicist, physicist, 

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  Soyuz TMA-3 ⓘ
  crewed spaceflight to the International Space Station

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  STS-103 ⓘ
  human spaceflight Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission by Space Shuttle Discovery

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  STS-45 ⓘ
  human spaceflight

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  STS-56 ⓘ
  human spaceflight

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  STS-63 ⓘ
  human spaceflight

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  STS-84 ⓘ
  human spaceflight

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  STS-86 ⓘ
  human spaceflight

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  Expedition 8 ⓘ
  expedition to the International Space Station

Expedition 8, 

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2003 — 2004 Expedition 8

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Foale Mir

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Foale Kal

Foale Zerog

STS-103 closing the airlock

NASA-Foale-Spacewalk

Astronaut C. Michael Foale (27989724356)

Foale Mir

183441main HRF-13

Foale Kal

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
class	orbit		Soyuz TMA-3	Aleksandr Kaleri, André Kuipers, Michael Foale, Pedro Duque, Soyuz-TMA, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		STS-103	Claude Nicollier, Curtis Brown, Jean-François Clervoy, John M. Grunsfeld, Michael Foale, Scott Kelly, Steven Smith, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		STS-45	Brian Duffy, Byron K. Lichtenberg, Charles Bolden, David Leestma, Dirk Frimout, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Michael Foale, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		STS-56	Ellen Ochoa, Kenneth Cockrell, Kenneth D. Cameron, Michael Foale, Stephen S. Oswald, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		STS-63	Bernard A. Harris, Eileen Collins, Janice E. Voss, Jim Wetherbee, Jr., Michael Foale, Vladimir Titov, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		STS-84	Carlos I. Noriega, Charles J. Precourt, Ed Lu, Eileen Collins, Jean-François Clervoy, Jerry M. Linenger, Michael Foale, Yelena Kondakova, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		STS-86	David Wolf, Jean-Loup Chrétien, Jim Wetherbee, Michael Foale, Michael J. Bloomfield, Scott E. Parazynski, Vladimir Titov, Wendy B. Lawrence, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	2003	Expedition 8	Aleksandr Kaleri, Michael Foale, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
commons	image		Foale Mir		Commons
commons	image		183441main HRF-13		Commons
commons	image		Foale Kal		Commons
commons	image		Foale Zerog		Commons
commons	image		STS-103 closing the airlock		Commons
commons	image		NASA-Foale-Spacewalk		Commons
commons	image		Astronaut C. Michael Foale (27989724356)		Commons
commons	image		Foale Mir		Commons
commons	image		183441main HRF-13		Commons
commons	image		Foale Kal		Commons