Michael Coats
Michael Lloyd Coats (born January 16, 1946 in Sacramento, California) is an engineer and former NASA astronaut (three spaceflights), raised in Riverside, California. Since December 2005, Selected as an astronaut candidate in 1978, Coats became a NASA Astronaut in August 1979. Coats retired from NASA in 1991 to work for Loral Space Information Systems. By 2005, he was Lockheed Martin\'s vice president of advanced space transportation.
Spaceflights
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 STS-41D PLT 30.08. - 05.09.1984 6d 00h 56m
2 STS-29 CDR 13.03. - 18.03.1989 4d 23h 38m
3 STS-39 CDR 28.04. - 06.05.1991 8d 07h 22m
Total 19d 07h 56m
