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Andrew Morgan

(Andrew Richard "Drew" Morgan)

(Feb 05, 1976)

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The first flight aboard the Soyuz MS-13. Docked with the ISS. Flight Engineer ISS-60/61/62. Landing in the spacecraft Soyuz MS-15.

After 12 years with NASA, U.S. Army Brigadier General Andrew R. Morgan has left the agency to continue his military service. Morgan spent 272 days in space aboard the International Space Station.

NASA selected Morgan as part of the 21st astronaut class in August 2013. On July 20, 2019—the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing—he launched to the ISS from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft.

Morgan served as a flight engineer during ISS Expeditions 60, 61, and 62, participating in hundreds of scientific experiments, technology demonstrations, and station maintenance tasks. During his mission, he traveled more than 115 million miles (approximately 185 million kilometers), completing over 4,300 orbits of Earth.

During his nine months on the station, Morgan performed seven spacewalks totaling 45 hours and 48 minutes, setting a record for the most spacewalk time during a single spaceflight by an American astronaut.Four of the spacewalks were dedicated to repairing the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer—a particle detector designed to search for traces of antimatter and dark matter. Morgan’s NASA career also included roles as Chief of the Flight Support Branch within the Astronaut Office, crew training coordinator, astronaut representative to the flight control team (for Expedition 67 and Expedition 68), and commander of the Army astronaut detachment. During his final two years with NASA, Morgan was temporarily assigned to the U.S. Army, serving as Commander of U.S. Army Garrison-Kwajalein Atoll and as Senior Military Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Morgan was born in Morgantown, West Virginia, but considers New Castle, Pennsylvania, his hometown. At the time of his selection for the NASA astronaut corps, he was a board-certified emergency medicine physician with experience serving in elite special operations units around the world. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), and the U.S. Army War College. He currently commands the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.