
Career record
Biography
Andrew Jay "Drew" Feustel is a geophysicist and a NASA astronaut. Following several years working as a geophysicist, Feustel was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in July 2000. His first spaceflight in May 2009, STS-125, lasted just under 13 days. This was a mission with six other astronauts to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis. Feustel performed three spacewalks during the mission. His second spaceflight was STS-134, which launched on May 16, 2011 and landed on June 1, 2011. STS-134 was the penultimate Space Shuttle flight. Feustel returned to space on March 21, 2018 on Soyuz MS-08 with Expedition 55/56. For expedition 56, he commanded the International Space Station, before handing over to Alexander Gerst on October 3, 2018.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Launches
- Soyuz-FG | Soyuz MS-08 — Flight Engineer · Success · March 21, 2018
- Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-134 — Mission Specialist · Success · May 16, 2011
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-125 — Mission Specialist · Success · May 11, 2009
Spacewalks
- Expedition 56 EVA 1 — 2018-06-14 · 6h 49m
- Expedition 55 EVA 2 — 2018-05-16 · 6h 31m
- Expedition 55 EVA 1 — 2018-03-29 · 6h 10m
- STS-134 EVA 3 — 2011-05-25 · 6h 54m
- STS-134 EVA 2 — 2011-05-22 · 8h 7m
- STS-134 EVA 1 — 2011-05-20 · 6h 19m
- STS-125 EVA 5 — 2009-05-18 · 7h 2m
- STS-125 EVA 3 — 2009-05-16 · 6h 36m
- STS-125 EVA 1 — 2009-05-14 · 7h 20m
Born 1965-08-25