NASA Astronaut Michael Foale

Article

“NASA Astronaut Michael Foale,” Interview by Samuel McKee
Published in Quest Volume: 32 #3 (2025)

Abstract

No one has had a NASA career quite like Dr. Michael Foale. Across six flights, he was part of three Shuttle science missions, a flight to the Hubble Space Telescope, a long-duration stay on Mir that was infamous for the crash that almost killed him and his crewmates, and the Commander of a long duration stay on an early International Space Station mission. Having such a diverse range of flights, he was the first NASA astronaut to accumulate a year in space and later became Assistant Deputy Director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

Citation

Foale, Michael. “NASA Astronaut Michael Foale.” Interview by Samuel McKee. Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 32, no. 3 (2025): 55-63.