Michael Foale

Michael Foale (CBE, PhD) was born 6 January 1957. He is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut.

He is a veteran of six Space Shuttle missions and extended missions on both Mir and the International Space Station. He was the first Briton to perform a space walk, and until 17 April 2008, he held the record for most time spent in space by a US citizen: 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes.

He still holds the cumulative-time-in-space record for a UK citizen.