Michael Richard Clifford was a United States Army officer and NASA astronaut. Clifford was a Master Army Aviator and logged over 3,400 hours flying in a wide variety of fixed and rotary winged aircraft. He retired from the U.S. Army at the rank of lieutenant colonel. He logged six hours of spacewalk time over three Space Shuttle missions. He was also one of the first people to conduct a spacewalk while docked to an orbiting space station: that spacewalk was conducted during STS-76, while docked at the Russian space station Mir.
Clifford in 1990
Clifford setting up the experiment equipment for BLAST aboard Discovery during STS-53
Clifford working at a restraint bar on the Mir Docking Module during his spacewalk on March 27, 1996 during STS-76
Clifford after the spacewalk in STS-76, getting out of his Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) suit
STS-76 was NASA's 76th Space Shuttle mission, and the 16th mission for Atlantis. STS-76 launched on 22 March 1996 at 08:13:04 UTC from Kennedy Space Center, launch pad 39B. STS-76 lasted over 9 days, traveled about 6,100,000 km (3,800,000 mi) while orbiting Earth an estimated 145 times, and landing at 13:28:57 UTC on 31 March 1996 at Edwards Air Force Base, runway 22.
Atlantis mates with Mir's Docking Module
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Launch of STS-76
Astronaut Linda M. Godwin translates along the longeron of Atlantis' cargo bay starboard side during EVA 1.
