Christopher Ferguson

Christopher Ferguson
Ferguson's Commercial Crew program portrait, photographed in 2018
Born	(1961-09-01) September 1, 1961 (age 62) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Other names	Fergy
Education	Drexel University (BS) Naval Postgraduate School (MS)
Space career
NASA astronaut
Rank	Captain, USN
Time in space	40d 10h 3m
Selection	NASA Group 17 (1998)
Missions	STS-115 STS-126 STS-135
Mission insignia

Christopher J. "Fergy" Ferguson (born September 1, 1961) is a Boeing commercial astronaut and a retired United States Navy captain and NASA astronaut. He was the pilot of Space Shuttle Atlantis on his first mission to space, STS-115, which launched on September 9, 2006, and returned to Earth on September 21, 2006. He then commanded STS-126 aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. In 2011, he was assigned as commander of STS-135, which was the final mission of the space shuttle program.

On December 9, 2011, he retired from NASA and became director of Crew and Mission Operations for Boeing's Commercial Crew Program. In August 2018, Ferguson was assigned to the first test flight of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner,^[1] although he stepped down from the mission in October 2020.