National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Michael R. Clifford

United States of America

Michael R. Clifford
Retired

Biography

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Michael Richard Uram "Rich" Clifford is a former United States Army officer and NASA astronaut. Clifford is considered a Master Army Aviator and has logged over 3,400 hours flying in a wide variety of fixed and rotary winged aircraft. Clifford retired from the U.S. Army at the rank of lieutenant colonel. He has logged over 12 hours of spacewalk time over three Space Shuttle missions. He is also one of the first people to conduct a spacewalk while docked to an orbiting space station. The spacewalk was conducted during STS-76, while docked at the Russian space station Mir.

Type

Government

Age

73

Date of Birth

October 13, 1952

First Flight

December 2, 1992

Last Flight

March 22, 1996

Career Stats

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3

Flights

3

Landings

1

Spacewalks

P27DT18H23M55S

Time in Space

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