Space · astronaut
Michael Foale
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
AMERICAN
RETIRED
Career
Time in space
373 d 18 h
Spacewalks
4
22 h 34 m outside
Flights
6
6 landings
Status
Retired
Nationality
AmericanBorn
06 Jan 1957First flight
24 Mar 1992Most recent flight
18 Oct 2003Type
GovernmentLinks
WikipediaBiography
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.
Flight log
Flights
| No. | Flight | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 06 | Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-3 | 18 Oct 2003 |
| 05 | Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-103 | 20 Dec 1999 |
| 04 | Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-84 | 15 May 1997 |
| 03 | Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-63 | 03 Feb 1995 |
| 02 | Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-56 | 08 Apr 1993 |
| 01 | Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-45 | 24 Mar 1992 |
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Source The Space Devs — Launch Library 2
Last checked 29 Sept 2026