Michael López-Alegría
Michael López-Alegría 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 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 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.
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- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States / 🇪🇸 Spain
- Status
- Active
- Life
- 1958
Spaceflights
- Oct 20, 1995 STS-73
- Oct 11, 2000 STS-92
- Nov 24, 2002 STS-113
- Sep 18, 2006 Soyuz TMA-9
- Apr 8, 2022 Axiom Mission 1
- May 21, 2023 Axiom Mission 2
- Jan 18, 2024 Axiom Mission 3
- Jun 25, 2025 Axiom Mission 4