Andrew Jay "Drew" Feustel is a former American/Canadian NASA astronaut and geophysicist. Following several years working as a geophysicist, Feustel was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in July 2000. He is the veteran of 3 space flights with NASA. His first spaceflight in May 2009, STS-125, lasted just under 13 days. This was a mission with six other astronauts to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis. Feustel performed three spacewalks during the mission. His second spaceflight was STS-134, which launched on May 16, 2011, and landed on June 1, 2011. STS-134 was the penultimate Space Shuttle flight. Feustel returned to space on March 21, 2018, on Soyuz MS-08 with Expedition 55/56. For expedition 56, he commanded the International Space Station, before handing over to Alexander Gerst on October 3, 2018.
Feustel in 2007
Feustel re-entering the International Space Station after the second spacewalk of the STS-134 mission
Feustel (right) pictured with fellow astronaut Mike Fincke prior to an EVA during STS-134
Feustel pictured during an EVA in 2018
STS-125, or HST-SM4, was the fifth and final Space Shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
The launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis occurred on May 11, 2009, at 2:01 pm EDT. Landing occurred on May 24 at 11:39 am EDT, with the mission lasting a total of just under 13 days.
The Hubble Space Telescope in Atlantis' payload bay
From left to right: Massimino, Good, Johnson, Altman, McArthur, Grunsfeld and FeustelSpace Shuttle program← STS-119STS-127 →
Prince Philip of the United Kingdom visited Goddard Space Flight Center in May 2007 and met with the crew of STS-125.
The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph in the cleanroom.
