# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-foale
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:42:41.947Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-foale"
name: "Michael Foale"
slug: "michael-foale"
description: "Colin Michael Foale 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."
tagline: "British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Foale.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1957-01-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.38884533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Michael Foale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Foale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Foale"
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    title: "Michael Foale"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Foale"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Colin_Foale"
    title: "Michael Colin Foale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Foale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Foale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "マイケル・フォール"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump