Mike Foreman
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Captain Mike Foreman is a retired U.S. Naval Aviator originally from Wadsworth, Ohio. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering in 1979 and was designated a Naval Aviator in 1981. He later graduated with Distinction from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School with a Master’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering and also graduated with Distinction from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in 1990.
Mike has over 7,500 hours of flight time in more than 50 different types of aircraft. He was selected into the NASA astronaut program in 1998 and spent over 637 hours in space during two space shuttle missions, STS-123 and STS-129. While in space, he performed 5 spacewalks for a total of 32 hours and 19 minutes outside the space vehicles helping to build the International Space Station.
After 17 years as an astronaut, Mike left NASA in 2015 to join Venturi Outcomes, LLC, a Houston-based construction project management firm owned by his wife, Lorrie Foreman. They are both now retired from that business and Mike is currently an international motivational speaker and the Mayor of Friendswood, Texas.
