Michael López-Alegría
Michael López-Alegría | |
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Lopez in March 2000 | |
| Born | Miguel Eladio López Alegría May 30, 1958 |
| Nationality | American Spanish |
| Education | United States Naval Academy (BS) Naval Postgraduate School (MS) |
| Space career | |
| NASA astronaut | |
| Rank | Captain, USN |
Time in space | 296 days, 16 hours and 15 minutes |
| Selection | NASA Group 14 (1992) |
Total EVAs | 10 |
Total EVA time | 67h 40m |
| Missions | |
Mission insignia | |
| Retirement | March 12, 2012 |
Michael López-Alegría (born Miguel Eladio López Alegría on May 30, 1958) is an astronaut, test pilot and commercial astronaut with dual nationality, American and Spanish; a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission. He is known for having performed ten spacewalks so far in his career, presently holding the second longest all-time EVA duration record (first among NASA astronauts) and having the fifth-longest spaceflight of any American at the length of 215 days; this time was spent on board the ISS from September 18, 2006, to April 21, 2007. López-Alegría commanded Axiom-1, the first ever all-private team of commercial astronaut mission to the International Space Station, which launched on April 8, 2022, and spent just over 17 days in Earth's orbit.