Flight record
2 flights on padside's record, flying from 1998 to 2003.
2Flights
24d 18hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
Michael Phillip Anderson was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. Anderson and his six fellow crew members were killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the craft disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Anderson served as the payload commander and lieutenant colonel in charge of science experiments on the Columbia. Anderson was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Flights
- Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-107January 16, 2003
- Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-89January 23, 1998
Born 1959-12-28 · died 2003-02-01