Michael Lopez-Alegria

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**Michael López-Alegría**
Astronaut

Nationality	American
Born	May 30, 1958 Madrid, Spain
Occupation¹	Engineering test pilot
Rank	Captain, USN
Space time	Currently in orbit
Selection	1992 NASA Group
Mission(s)	STS-73, STS-92, STS-113 , Soyuz TMA-9, Expedition 14
Mission insignia
¹ previous or current

Michael Eladio "LA" López-Alegría (born as Miguel López-Alegría 30 May 1958) is an American astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission.

"Miguel" López-Alegría, born in Madrid (Spain) and raised in Mission Viejo, California, joined the United States Navy and earned engineering degrees in 1980 and 1988 from the Naval Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School. His first space mission 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.

On 19 September 2006 he docked with the ISS as Commander of Expedition 14, having taken off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan on 18 September, onboard Soyuz TMA-9. On Expedition 14, he has performed five spacewalks so far.

Commander Lopez-Alegria holds the all time American record for number of EVA's (10) and total EVA duration (67 hours and 40 minutes). The previous record holder, Jerry L. Ross had a total of 9 EVA's with a duration of 58 hours and 18 minutes.

[edit] List of EVAs:

10/16/2000 7:07 hours STS-92, EVA 2
10/18/2000 6:56 hours STS-92, EVA 4
11/26/2002 6:45 hours STS-113, EVA 1
11/28/2002 6:10 hours STS-113, EVA 2
11/30/2002 7:00 hours STS-113, EVA 3
11/22/2006 7:39 hours ISS Expedition 14, EVA 1
01/31/2007 7:55 hours ISS Expedition 14, EVA 2
02/04/2007 7:11 hours ISS Expedition 14, EVA 3
02/07/2007 6:39 hours ISS Expedition 14, EVA 4
02/22/2007 6:18 hours ISS Expedition 14, EVA 5

At the end of his mission, he will have commanded the longest flight by a Soyuz spacecraft, making Expedition 14 the longest expedition thus far. López-Alegría will also break the record for longest spaceflight by an American astornaut.