Miguel Eladio "LA" López-Alegría (also known as Michael López-Alegría born on May 30, 1958) is a Spanish American astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission.
Lopez-Alegria was born in Madrid, Spain and raised in Mission Viejo, California. Lopez-Alegria joined the United States Navy, where he earned engineering degrees in 1980, and 1988 from the Naval Academy and the Naval Postgraduate Schoo...
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Miguel Eladio "LA" López-Alegría (also known as Michael López-Alegría born on May 30, 1958) is a Spanish American astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission.
Lopez-Alegria was born in Madrid, Spain and raised in Mission Viejo, California. Lopez-Alegria joined the United States Navy, where he earned engineering degrees in 1980, and 1988 from the Naval Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School. His fleet experience in the Navy was at VQ-2 in Rota, Spain and the Naval Test Pilot School, Pax River. A natural leader, he was the top Lieutenant of 60 in the second largest aviation wardroom in the Navy (105 officers). He made many connections with Spanish military and civilian personnel while in Spain for his first tour that have made him very popular and well-known in Spanish media. He was one of the few EP-3E pilots in the squadron to get time in the EA-3B.
His first space mission was STS-73 in 1995; for several years afterwards he...
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