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C. Michael Foale (born 6 January 1957) is a United
Kingdom|British-born astronaut with dual
citizenship|dual UK-United States|US citizenship;
he is a veteran of four space shuttle missions and
extended stays on both Mir and the International
Space Station. He was the first Briton to perform
a space walk, and holds the record for most time
spent in space by a US citizen: 374 days, 11
hours, 19 minutes.

Born in Louth, Lincolnshire|Louth and raised in
Cambridge, Foale was educated at The King's
School, Canterbury, Kent|Canterbury and Queens'
College, Cambridge|Queens' College, University of
Cambridge|Cambridge University, receiving a
doctorate in laboratory astrophysics in 1982.

Foale joined the mission operations division of
NASA in 1983 and was selected as an astronaut
candidate in 1987. He flew on space shuttle
missions STS-45 (1992), STS-56 (1993) and STS-63
(1995). In the latter mission he undertook a
four-hour Extra-vehicular activity|EVA. He was
then selected for an extended mission aboard the
Russian Mir space station. During a four month
stay on Mir in 1997, Mir was struck by a Progress
spacecraft|Progress resupply vessel and Foale
conducted a 6-hour EVA to inspect exterior damage.


In 1999, Foale was a member of space shuttle
mission STS-103, during which he conducted an
8-hour spacewalk to replace components of the
Hubble Space Telescope.

In 2003, Foale was named commander of
International Space Station Expedition 8 with
cosmonaut Alexandr Kaleri. His six-month tour of
duty on the station ended on April 29, 2004.

He was awarded a CBE in the diplomatic list of the
New Year Honours in December 2004. 

==External link==

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* http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/foale.html
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