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Michael Foale
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British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1958-08-29
- Active to
- 2009-06-25
Discography
- Got to Be There1972
- Ben1972
- Music & Me1973
- Forever, Michael1975
- Off the Wall1979
- Thriller1982
- Bad1987
- Dangerous1991
- HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I1995
- Invincible2001
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2
· 2014 · cited 85,638x
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 47,865x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,963x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,720x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,032x
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Key facts
- Born
- Colin Michael Foale , ( 1957-01-06 ) 6 January 1957 (age 69) , Louth , UK
- Education
- Queens' College, Cambridge ( BA , PhD )
- Awards
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Time in space
- 374d 11h 19m
- Selection
- NASA Group 12 (1987)
- Total eva time
- 16h 44m
- Missions
- STS-45 , STS-56 , STS-63 , STS-84 / STS-86 ( Mir NASA-5 ) (Mir EO-23 and 24), STS-103 , Soyuz TMA-3 ( Expedition 8 )
- Retirement
- August 9, 2013
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Wikidata facts
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- Michael Foale
- date of birth
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- time in space
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- name in native language
- Colin Michael Foale
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Article
Colin Michael Foale CBE (/foʊl/; born 6 January 1957) is a British-American astrophysicist and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six space missions, and is the only NASA astronaut to have flown extended missions aboard both Mir and the International Space Station. He was the second Briton in space and the first to perform a space walk. Until 17 April 2008, he held the record for most time spent in space by a US citizen: 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes, and as of 2024 he held the cumulative-time-in-space record for a British citizen.
Life and career