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NASA Astronaut Michael R. Barratt

Michael Reed Barratt was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2000. In 2009, he served as a flight engineer on the International Space Station as part of Expedition 19 and 20. Two years later, he flew on STS-133 as a mission specialist. He served in the Mission Support Branch to provide medical and human factors expertise to the spaceflight program. Barratt launched to the space station March 3, 2024 as pilot of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission. He’s serving as a flight engineer aboard the orbiting laboratory and will spend approximately 6 months conducting science experiments and maintaining the space station.

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Dr. Barratt has a particular interest in human adaptation to space flight and serves as Associate Editor for Space Medicine for the journal, Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance and is senior editor of the textbook, Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight.

Dr. Barratt has a particular interest in human adaptation to space flight and serves as Associate Editor for Space Medicine for the journal, Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance and is senior editor of the textbook, Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight.

Barratt flew on STS-133, which delivered the Permanent Multipurpose Module and fourth Express Logistics Carrier to the International Space Station.

Barratt flew on STS-133, which delivered the Permanent Multipurpose Module and fourth Express Logistics Carrier to the International Space Station.

In January 1994, Barratt was assigned to the joint U.S./Russian Shuttle – Mir Program, working and training extensively in the Cosmonaut Training Center, Star City, Russia, in support of the Mir-18/STS-71 and subsequent missions.

In January 1994, Barratt was assigned to the joint U.S./Russian Shuttle - Mir Program, working and training extensively in the Cosmonaut Training Center, Star City, Russia, in support of the Mir-18/STS-71 and subsequent missions.

(6 November 2008) Attired in a training version of his Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit, astronaut Michael Barratt, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, awaits the start of a spacewalk training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA’s Johnson Space Center. (Credit: NASA/Bill Stafford)

(24 February 2011) At the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery’s STS-133 astronauts, dressed in their orange launch-and-entry suits, pause for a group portrait in front of the Astrovan which will transport them to Launch Pad 39A. From left are Mission Specialists Nicole Stott, Michael Barratt, Alvin Drew and Steve Bowen; Pilot Eric Boe; and Commander Steve Lindsey. (Credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann)

(1 March 2011) NASA astronaut Michael Barratt, STS-133 mission specialist, is pictured in the Cupola of the International Space Station while space shuttle Discovery remains docked with the station. (Credit: NASA)

(26 September 2009) NASA astronaut Michael Barratt, Expedition 20 flight engineer, works with Combustion Integrated Rack in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.

(10 August 2009) Expedition 20 crew members pose for an in-flight portrait in the Harmony node of the International Space Station. Pictured from the left (front row) are Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk and NASA astronaut Michael Barratt, both flight engineers; along with cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, commander. From the left (back row) are NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne, all flight engineers.

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NASA astronaut Michael R. Barratt, mission specialist.

(13 July 2010) NASA astronaut Michael R. Barratt, mission specialist. (Credit: NASA)

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