Michael Coats

Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.

Michael Lloyd Coats is a former NASA astronaut (three spaceflights), raised in Riverside, California. From December 2005 to December 2012, he served as Director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

Born in

Sacramento

Education

George Washington University; Naval Postgraduate School; United States Naval Test Pilot School; United States Naval Academy; Ramona High School

Awards

NASA Distinguished Service Medal; Air Medal; Distinguished Flying Cross; United States Astronaut Hall of Fame

From Wikidata.

• Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-39Commander · Success · with Charles L. Veach, Donald R. McMonagle, Gregory Harbaugh, Guion Bluford, Lloyd Hammond, Richard HiebApril 28, 1991
• Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-29Commander · Success · with James Buchli, James P. Bagian, John E. Blaha, Robert C. SpringerMarch 13, 1989
• Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-41-DPilot · Success · with Charles D. Walker, Henry 'Hank' Hartsfield, Judith Resnik, Mike Mullane, Steven HawleyAugust 30, 1984