Colin Michael Foale, is a British-American astrophysicist
and former NASA astronaut retired
from NASA in the second week of August 2013.
He is a veteran of
six space shuttle missions and extended stays on both Mir and the International
Space Station. He was the first Briton to perform a space walk, and until 17
April 2008, he held the record for most time spent in space by a US citizen:
374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes. He still holds the cumulative-time-in-space
record for a UK citizen
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