Expedition 28 was the 28th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station, and began on 23 May 2011 with the departure of the members of Expedition 27. The first three members of Expediti
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(l-r) Furukawa, Fossum, Garan, Samokutyayev, Volkov and BorisenkoISS expeditions← Expedition 27Expedition 29 →
Space Shuttle Endeavour docked to the ISS on STS-134, imaged from the departing Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft on 23 May 2011.
Fossum in a training version of his spacesuit, during a training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory near NASA's Johnson Space Center.
Michael Edward Fossum is an American former astronaut, engineer, and the Chief Operating Officer of Texas A&M University at Galveston. He flew into space on board the NASA Space Shuttle missions STS-1
Expedition 28
…Earth on 1 June 2011, at 6:34 UTC. STS-134 was the second-to-last mission of the Space Shuttle. The remainder of the Expedition 28 crew (Sergey Volkov, Michael E. Fossum, and Satoshi Furukawa) launched aboard Soyuz TMA-02M from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 20:12 UTC on 7 June 2011. Originally scheduled to…
Fossum during a spacewalk
A self-portrait of Fossum taken on a spacewalk, listed on Popular Science's photo gallery of the best astronaut selfies.
Fossum with a Texas A&M helmet