Michael E. Fossum

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Michael Edward Fossum is a former American astronaut and the Chief Operating Officer of Texas A&M University at Galveston. He flew into space on board the NASA Space Shuttle missions STS-121 and STS-124 and served as a mission specialist of Expedition 28 and commander of Expedition 29 aboard the International Space Station.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

Born in

Sioux Falls

Education

Texas A&M University; U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School; McAllen High School; University of Houston–Clear Lake

Awards

NASA Distinguished Service Medal; Distinguished Eagle Scout Award

From Wikidata.

• Soyuz FG | Soyuz TMA-02MFlight Engineer · Success · with Satoshi Furukawa, Sergey Aleksandrovich VolkovJune 7, 2011 · 20:12 UTC
• Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-124Mission Specialist · Success · with Akihiko Hoshide, Gregory Chamitoff, Karen Nyberg, Kenneth Ham, Mark Kelly, Ronald J. Garan Jr.May 31, 2008
• Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-121Mission Specialist · Success · with Lisa Nowak, Mark Kelly, Piers Sellers, Stephanie Wilson, Steven Lindsey, Thomas ReiterJuly 4, 2006

• Expedition 28 EVA 16h 31m2011-07-12
• STS-124 EVA 36h 33m2008-06-08
• STS-124 EVA 27h 11m2008-06-05
• STS-124 EVA 16h 48m2008-06-03
• STS-121 EVA 37h 11m2006-07-12
• STS-121 EVA 26h 47m2006-07-10
• STS-121 EVA 17h 31m2006-07-08

• Expedition 29International Space Station · Commander2011-09-16 – 2011-11-21
• Expedition 28International Space Station · Flight Engineer2011-05-23 – 2011-09-16