Career record
Flights
2
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
24d 18h
Career EVA time
under a minute
Spacewalks
0
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.
Launches
- Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-107 — Mission Specialist · Failure · January 16, 2003
- Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-89 — Mission Specialist · Success · January 23, 1998
Born 1959-12-28 · died 2003-02-01