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Biography of Michael Lopez-Alegria - Astronaut
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Michael Eladio Lopez-Alegria (born 30 May 1958) is an United States|American astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions. Lopez-Alegria, born in Madrid and raised in Mission Viejo, California, joined the United States Navy and earned engineering degrees in 1980 and 1988 from the United States Naval Academy|Naval Academy and the United States Naval Postgraduate School|Naval Postgraduate School. His first space mission with NASA was STS-73 in 1995; for several years afterwards he led NASA's International Space Station|ISS Crew Operations office before returning to space aboard STS-92 in 2000 and STS-113 in 2002. ==See also== * List of astronauts ==External links== * http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/lopez-al.htm l NASA Biography bio-stub
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