Michael Fincke

Edward Michael Fincke (born March 14, 1967) is an American former NASAastronaut and retired United States Air Forcecolonel. He is fourth among NASA astronauts ranked by time spent in space, tallying up over 549 days. Fincke has logged nine spacewalks, totaling 48 hours and 37 minutes of EVA time. He is unique in that six of those spacewalks were in a Russian Orlan spacesuit. Before his next launch, Fincke has been certified as a pilot for both Boeing Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon, as well as a co-pilot/flight engineer on the Soyuz and a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle.

Fincke was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but considers its suburb Emsworth to be his hometown. He is a retired United States Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of three long-duration missions aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer on , as commander of , and as a flight engineer on and commander of , as well as one Space Shuttle mission, STS-134, as a mission specialist.