Michael López-Alegría, Spanish-American captain, pilot, and astronaut
Michael López-Alegría (born Miguel Eladio López-Alegría on May 30, 1958) is a Spanish-American astronaut and test pilot; a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission. He is known for having performed ten spacewalks so far in his career, presently holding the second longest all-time EVA duration record (first among NASA astronauts) and having the fifth-longest spaceflight of any American at the length of 215 days; this time was spent on board the ISS from September 18, 2006 to April 21, 2007. López-Alegría will command Axiom-1, the first ever private mission to the International Space Station, set to launch no earlier than March 30, 2022.