Interview with NASA astronaut Michael Foale

Mckee, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1813-0521 (2025) Interview with NASA astronaut Michael Foale. Quest: The History of Spaceflight, 32 (3). pp. 55-63. ISSN 1065-7738

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Abstract

No one has had a NASA career quite like Dr. Michael Foale. Across six flights, he was part of three Shuttle science missions, a flight to the Hubble Space Telescope, a long duration stay on Mir that was infamous for the crash that almost killed him and his crewmates, and the Commander of a long duration stay on an early International Space Station mission. Having such a diverse range of flights, he was the first NASA astronaut to accumulate a year in space and later became Assistant Deputy Director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center.