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Michael Barratt (Michael Reed Barratt) was born on 16 April, 1959 in Vancouver, Washington, U.S., is an American aerospace medicine physician and astronaut born 1959. Discover Michael Barratt's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?

Popular As Michael Reed Barratt
Occupation Physician
Age 64 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 16 April, 1959
Birthday 16 April
Birthplace Vancouver, Washington, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1959

Michael Reed Barratt (born April 16, 1959) is an American physician and a NASA astronaut.

Specializing in aerospace medicine, he served as a flight surgeon for NASA before his selection as an astronaut and has played a role in developing NASA's space medicine programs for both the Shuttle-Mir Program and International Space Station.

His first spaceflight was a long-duration mission to the International Space Station, as a flight engineer in the Expedition 19 and 20 crew.

1977

Barratt graduated from Camas High School in 1977.

1981

He graduated from the University of Washington in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science degree in zoology, going on to earn an M.D. from Northwestern University in 1985.

1988

He completed a three-year residency in internal medicine at Northwestern University in 1988; his Chief Residency year was at Veterans Administration Lakeside Hospital in Chicago in 1989.

1991

In 1991, Barratt completed both a residency and a Master of Science in aerospace medicine jointly run by Wright State University, NASA, and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

He is board certified in Internal and Aerospace Medicine.

Barratt holds a private pilot's license and has been qualified on NASA's T-38 Talons.

Barratt first worked at NASA Johnson Space Center in May 1991, employed as an aerospace project physician with KRUG Life Sciences.

From May 1991 to July 1992, he served on the Health Maintenance Facility Project as manager of the Hyperbaric and Respiratory Subsystems for the defunct Space Station Freedom project.

1992

In July 1992 he was assigned as NASA aviation medical examiner working in Space Shuttle Medical Operations.

1993

In July 1993 Barratt was one of a team of the first three Americans invited to witness the recovery of a Soyuz spacecraft.

Asked to help evaluate the potential of the Soyuz as a Crew Return Vehicle for a NASA space station, he flew with the recovery team that picked up the crew of Soyuz TM-16 after they landed in Kazakhstan.

(The Soyuz was ultimately chosen as the return vehicle for the International Space Station).

1994

In January 1994 he was assigned to the Shuttle-Mir Program.

He spent over 12 months working and training in the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City as one of two flight surgeons supporting Norman Thagard and his backup Bonnie Dunbar, a role that often included negotiations to resolve different approaches to medicine by NASA and Russian doctors.

Barratt and fellow flight surgeon David Ward developed a Mir Supplemental Medical Kit to augment Russian equipment on Mir and developed a program of training for its use, taught to both NASA astronauts and Russian cosmonauts.

Thagard launched to Mir aboard Soyuz TM-21 and returned to earth on STS-71; during the 115-day flight, Barratt and Ward effectively served as a CAPCOMs for the NASA Shuttle-Mir team in addition to their duties as flight surgeons.

1995

From July 1995 through July 1998, Barratt served as Medical Operations Lead for the International Space Station (ISS).

A frequent traveler to Russia, he worked with counterparts at Star City and the Institute of Biomedical Problems as well as other ISS partner centers, developing medical procedures, training, and equipment for ISS.

1998

Barratt served as lead crew surgeon for ISS Expedition 1 from July 1998 until selected as an astronaut candidate.

He serves as Associate Editor for Space Medicine for the journal Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, and is senior editor of the textbook Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight.

2000

Selected as a mission specialist by NASA in July 2000, Barratt reported for training in August 2000.

Following the completion of two years of training and evaluation, he was assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Station Operations Branch.

2004

In October 2004, Barratt served as an aquanaut during the NEEMO 7 mission aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory, living and working underwater for eleven days.

During NEEMO 7 the crew tested technologies and procedures for remote surgery, as well as using virtual reality for telemedicine.

2008

Barratt was assigned to the Expedition 19 crew in February 2008 and launched to the International Space Station in March 2009 aboard Soyuz TMA-14.

2009

His stay aboard the ISS continued through until the end of Expedition 20 in October 2009.

During Expedition 20 Barratt performed EVA and IVA together with Gennady Padalka.

The first EVA, on June 5, 2009, lasted for 4 hours and 54 minutes, Prepared the Zvezda service module transfer compartment for the arrival of the Poisk module, installed docking antenna for the module, photographed antenna for evaluation on the ground, and photographed the Strela-2 crane.

The second was an internal spacewalk in the depressurized Zvezda transfer compartment, to replace one of the Zvezda hatches with a docking cone, in preparation for the docking of the Poisk module later in 2009.

This spacewalk lasted 12 minutes.

Barratt returned to Earth on October 11, 2009, after spending 198 days, 16 hours, and 42 minutes in space., on Soyuz TMA-14 along with Padalka and space tourist Guy Laliberté.

Barratt flew as a mission specialist on STS-133, the final flight of Space Shuttle Discovery.

2011

In March 2011, Barratt completed his second spaceflight as a crew member of STS-133.

Barratt pilots the SpaceX Crew-8 mission that launched on 4 March 2024.

The mission launched on February 24, 2011, and landed on March 9, 2011.

The mission transported several items to the space station, including the Permanent Multipurpose Module Leonardo, which was left permanently docked at one of the station's ports.

The shuttle also carried the third of four ExPRESS Logistics Carriers to the ISS, as well as a humanoid robot called Robonaut.