About
Served on NASA mission STS-123 in March 2008, setting a record at the time for longest time spent on the International Space Station.
Before Fame
He graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1979 and 7 years later from the Naval Postgraduate School.
Trivia
He was also a crew member of the 11-day STS-129, which took off in November of 2009.
Family Life
He and Lorrie Dancer had 3 children together.
Associated With
He and Ronald Sega are among the more than two dozen astronauts to come out of Ohio.