Michael López-Alegría

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Michael López-Alegría is a Spanish-American astronaut; a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission. He is known for having performed ten spacewalks so far in his career, presently holding the second longest all-time EVA duration record and having the third longest spaceflight of any American at the length of 215 days; this time was spent on board the ISS from September 18, 2006 to April 21, 2007.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

Born in

Madrid

Education

John F. Kennedy School of Government; Naval Postgraduate School; United States Naval Test Pilot School; United States Naval Academy

Awards

Great Immigrants Award; NASA Distinguished Service Medal; honorary doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria; Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"

From Wikidata.

• Falcon 9 Block 5 | Axiom Space Mission 3Commander · Success · with Alper Gezeravci, Marcus Wandt, Walter VilladeiJanuary 18, 2024 · 21:49 UTC
• Falcon 9 Block 5 | Axiom Space Mission 1Commander · Success · with Eytan Stibbe, Larry Connor, Mark PathyApril 8, 2022
• Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-9Flight Engineer · Success · with Anousheh Ansari, Mikhail TyurinSeptember 18, 2006 · 04:08 UTC
• Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-113Mission Specialist · Success · with Donald Pettit, Jim Wetherbee, John Herrington, Ken Bowersox, Nikolai Budarin, Paul LockhartNovember 24, 2002 · 00:49 UTC
• Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-92Mission Specialist · Success · with Brian Duffy, Koichi Wakata, Leroy Chiao, Pamela Melroy, Peter Wisoff, William S. McArthurOctober 11, 2000
• Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-73Mission Specialist · Success · with Albert Sacco, Catherine Coleman, Frederick W. Leslie, Kathryn C. Thornton, Ken Bowersox, Kent RomingerOctober 20, 1995

• Expedition 14 EVA 56h 17m2007-02-22
• Expedition 14 EVA 46h 40m2007-02-08
• Expedition 14 EVA 37h 11m2007-02-04
• Expedition 14 EVA 27h 55m2007-01-31
• Expedition 14 EVA 15h 38m2006-11-22
• STS-113 EVA 37h2002-11-30
• STS-113 EVA 26h 10m2002-11-28
• STS-113 EVA 16h 45m2002-11-26
• STS-92 EVA 46h 56m2000-10-18
• STS-92 EVA 27h 7m2000-10-16

• Axiom Mission 3International Space Station · Spaceflight Participant2024-01-20 – 2024-02-07
• Axiom Mission 1International Space Station · Tourist2022-04-09 – 2022-04-25
• Expedition 14International Space Station · Commander2006-09-18 – 2007-04-21