#MICHAEL FINK WIKIPEDIA SERIES#

Expedition 9įincke was the space station science officer and flight engineer for ISS Expedition 9 from 18 April through 23 October 2004. He was the commander of the second NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations ( NEEMO 2) mission, living and working underwater for 7 days in May 2002. Additionally he served as a backup for the ISS Expedition 6 crew and is qualified to fly as a left-seat Flight Engineer (co-pilot) on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. In July 1999, Fincke was assigned as backup crewmember for the International Space Station Expedition 4 crew. Having completed two years of training and evaluation, he was assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Station Operations Branch serving as an International Space Station Spacecraft Communicator (ISS CAPCOM), a member of the Crew Test Support Team in Russia and as the ISS crew procedures team lead. He reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. NASA careerįincke was selected by NASA in April 1996 to be an astronaut.

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He also appeared in an episode of the animated television series Arthur. Fincke belongs to the Geological Society of America and the British Interplanetary Society. Fincke as of 2005 has over 800 flight hours in more than 30 different varieties of aircraft and holds the rank of Colonel. In January 1996, he reported to the Gifu Test Center, Gifu Air Base in Japan where he was the United States Flight Test Liaison to the Japanese/United States XF-2 fighter program. In 1994, upon completion of the United States Air Force Test Pilot School, Edwards Air Force Base in California, Fincke joined the 39th Flight Test Squadron, Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, where he served as a Flight Test Engineer working on a variety of flight test programs, flying the F-16 and F-15 aircraft. There he served as a Space Systems Engineer and a Space Test Engineer. After graduation from Stanford University in 1990, Fincke entered the United States Air Force where he was assigned to the Air Force Space and Missiles Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base in California. Immediately after graduating from MIT in 1989, Fincke attended a summer exchange program with the Moscow Aviation Institute in the former Soviet Union, where he studied Cosmonautics. He also attended El Camino College in Torrance, California, where he studied Japanese and Geology. He then received a Master of Science in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University in 1990 and a second Master of Science in planetary geology from the University of Houston–Clear Lake in 2001. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on an Air Force ROTC scholarship and graduated in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science in aeronautics and astronautics as well as a Bachelor of Science in Earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences. His total EVA time is 48 hours and 37 minutes placing him 6th all time on the list of spacewalkers.įincke graduated from Sewickley Academy in Sewickley, Pennsylvania in 1985. He has done 9 spacewalks in Russian Orlan spacesuits and American EMUs. įincke has logged just under 382 days in space, placing him first among American astronauts for the most time in space. He is married to Renita Saikia and together, they have three children son Chandra and daughters Tarali and Surya. Fincke is conversant in Japanese and Russian. He was born on 14 March 1967 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but considers its suburb Emsworth, Pennsylvania to be his hometown) is a United States Air Force officer and a NASA astronaut, who has served two tours aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer and commander and has flown on one Space Shuttle mission, STS-134 as a Mission Specialist.

Soyuz TMA-4, Expedition 9, Soyuz TMA-13, Expedition 18, STS-134Įdward Michael 'Mike' Fincke is the American Astronaut with the most time in space (381.6 days). Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS)

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