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Michael Clifford | |
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 Clifford in 1990 | |
| Born | Michael Richard Clifford October 13, 1952 Norton Air Force Base, California, U.S. |
| Died | December 28, 2021 (aged 69) |
| Education | United States Military Academy (BS) Georgia Institute of Technology (MS) |
| Space career | |
| NASA astronaut | |
| Rank | Lieutenant Colonel, USA |
Time in space | 27d 18h 24m |
| Selection | NASA Group 13 (1990) |
Total EVA time | 6h |
| Missions | STS-53 STS-59 STS-76 |
Mission insignia |    |
| Retirement | January 1997[1] |
Michael Richard Clifford (October 13, 1952 – December 28, 2021) 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.
- ^ "MICHAEL RICHARD "RICH" CLIFFORD (Lieutenant Colonel, USA) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER)" (PDF). January 1997. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
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