Michael Foale has spent more than a year in space on various missions (Credit: Nasa) Since leaving Nasa, Foale has been working in the private sector on new aviation technologies and believes ...

Michael Foale was the first British NASA astronaut, who won a Mirror Pride of Britain award for his bravery during the 1997 crash of the Mir Russian space station in which he and two other ...

9.9K. British-born astronaut Michael Foale has retired from NASA following an amazing career that saw him fly on six Space Shuttle missions, a Soyuz and two Space Stations.

Astronaut Michael Foale has apparently located the small air leak that has bedeviled the international space station for the past three weeks. NASA’s Mission Control Center in Houston on Sunday ...

Kaleri and American astronaut Michael Foale had left the space station empty when they ventured out, the first time the 5-year-old outpost had ever been unattended during a spacewalk.

Space station commander Michael Foale has found a braided flexible hose with an apparent leak in it that may explain the slight loss of air pressure station engineers have been struggling to ...

American astronaut Michael Foale, just back from six months aboard the international space station, said Wednesday that only a demanding work program would justify spending a full year in space.

Michael Foale’s ears were popping from pressure loss as precious air hissed through a hole in the hull. He sat alone in Mir’s escape pod—a Soyuz space capsule—waiting for his fellow crew ...

A riskier-than-usual spacewalk outside the international space station was cut short Thursday night because of a malfunction that left one of the two crewmen with a warm, damp suit.

When a robot ship smashed into the Russian space station Mir last month, the crew came harrowingly close to dying in space, Mir’s commander revealed Wednesday. In their first interview since … ...

Ian Foale couldn’t believe it when his mommy told him that his father would be home soon. Last May, Ian, 3, could barely speak when his father, astronaut Michael Foale, moved into space station Mir.