Michael Foale

Michael Foale CBE
Born	Colin Michael Foale (1957-01-06) 6 January 1957 (age 67) Louth, England, UK
Nationality	British American
Education	Queens' College, Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Awards	Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Space career
NASA astronaut
Time in space	374d 11h 19m
Selection	NASA Group 12 (1987)
Total EVAs	4
Total EVA time	16h 44m
Missions	STS-45 STS-56 STS-63 STS-84 (up) Mir NASA-5 (Mir EO-23 and 24) STS-86 (down) STS-103 Soyuz TMA-3 (Expedition 8)
Mission insignia

Colin Michael Foale CBE (/foʊl/; born 6 January 1957) is a British-American astrophysicist and a former NASA astronaut.^[1] He is a veteran of six space missions, and is the only NASA astronaut to have flown extended missions aboard both Mir and the International Space Station. He was the second Briton in space and the first to perform a space walk. Until 17 April 2008, he held the record for most time spent in space by a US citizen: 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes, and as of 2024^[update] he held the cumulative-time-in-space record for a British citizen.^{[citation needed]}